Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence
The U.S. Navy’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) is a collaborative project that develops world-leading additive manufacturing technical data packages, or “manufacturing recipes,” for the development of parts needed by the United States military.
This Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) project is led by Austal and includes the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) and many other industry partners.
Emerging from IALR’s collaborative efforts with the U.S. Navy, the AM CoE serves as an operational hub to facilitate and expand additive manufacturing. Additionally, the AM CoE is growing the defense industrial base’s capacity to escalate production capabilities.
This project is housed within IALR’s Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA), Virginia’s hub for high-performance manufacturing optimization and advancement.
The AM CoE’s principal functions are to:
- Promote the adoption of mature industrial qualification processes and data to earn technical warrant holder approval for additive manufacturing production;
- Enable scale and speed to address material readiness challenges and critical fragilities in the castings/forgings market space;
- Pave a path for sustainable and scalable additive manufacturing production capability in the submarine industrial base.
