WASHINGTON — The Pentagon wants to use an advanced technology process known as additive manufacturing to design and build hypersonic weapon and vehicle systems that can operate in extreme conditions.

A fresh deal is expected to streamline and speed up production of hypersonic, solid rocket motors in the United States. Ursa ...

The use of additive manufacturing is to facilitate hypersonic ground testing. While traditional building techniques use machining, additive manufacturing takes advantage of 3D models and advanced ...

The new Hypersonics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center (HAMTC) will be a single location at Purdue for industry partners, including GE Additive, Dynetics, Lockheed Martin, Aerojet Rocketdyne, GE ...

Additive manufacturing can help,” Dr. Brandon A. McWilliams, materials engineer, lead for Metals Added Manufacturing, Army Research Lab, Combat Capabilities Development Command, told Warrior in ...

Additive manufacturing makes the Mako a scalable, cost-effective hypersonic weapon that allows for salvo fires, unlike weapons such as the Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal or the US’s AGM-183 ARRW.

“The potential and opportunity for additive manufacturing in hypersonics is huge,” Chris Schuppe, general manager (of) engineering and technology (at) GE Additive, said.“We are honored to be ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A team at the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), the university’s research and development center, is using state-of-the-art additive-manufacturing equipment to print a ...

The U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) hopes to leverage additive manufacturing for building parts of the Department of Defense’s hypersonic test facilities ...

Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on July 1 visited Dynetics’ new Common Hypersonic Glide Body factory, ... Additive manufacturing gets talked about a lot out in aerospace and defense,” he adds.

Ursa Major has landed a follow-on contract award with America Makes to qualify its copper additive manufacturing process for hypersonic flight. Ursa Major, a Colorado-based rocket propulsion ...