Open Additive, LLC, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase I contract through the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory.The project, Large-Format, Low-Cost Metal AM for Army Applications, was one of 23 selections from 189 proposals submitted to the Army’s X19.4 topic call: Expeditionary Technology Search (xTechSearch) Dual-Use Technologies to Solve Challenging Army Problems. [...]

Open Additive, LLC, has been awarded a prototype demonstration contract to evaluate its PANDA™ Metal 3D Printing System with AMSENSE® to address future modernization and sustainment needs for U.S. Air Force mobility and training aircraft. The project titled Versatile, Self-Contained Metal Additive Manufacturing for Global Operations will address the potential of Open Additive’s commercial product line to (1) build [...]

Open Additive, LLC, has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II development effort to support the Air Force’s Landing Gear Test Facility (LGTF) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Managed by the 704th Test Group, the LGTF uses advanced test methods to evaluate aircraft tire wear resulting from tire-runway interaction. At the heart of the LGTF is the [...]

Open Additive, LLC, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $2.94M, 27-month Air Force Commercial Readiness Program (CRP) contract to advance its Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology and product line to industrial scale. The contract, titled Open Systems Platform for Multi-Laser Additive Manufacturing, builds on the company’s prior Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) portfolio and independent research [...]