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$25.6 Million: America Makes Launches Two Metal Additive Manufacturing Projects

2026-05-05

America Makes, in partnership with the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), has announced two project calls totaling $25.6 million, focusing on metal additive manufacturing for defense applications. The $12.4 million Metal Additive Interchangeability Maturity (MIAMI) project aims to validate whether metal additive materials can effectively replace traditional alloys, proceeding in two phases: initial feasibility assessment and process specification development, followed by comprehensive testing. Three awards are expected, with teams required to share validation data. The second project, Integrated In-Situ Testing and Evaluation System (INSITE), funded at $13.2 million, targets a quality assurance framework combining in-situ monitoring and post-build inspection, emphasizing challenges with large components, dense materials, and complex geometries, rather than advancing standalone sensor technologies, to create a certifiable integrated inspection system. Both initiatives support the U.S. Department of Defense’s industrial base strengthening strategy: MIAMI enhances supply chain resilience through material interchangeability, while INSITE boosts overall additive manufacturing reliability via an integrated inspection system. Together, they aim to accelerate the scalable adoption of metal additive technologies in defense, with future focus on material substitution data-sharing mechanisms and online inspection technology integration solutions.

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2560万美元！美国增材制造联盟America Makes启动两项金属增材制造项目

美国增材制造联盟（America Makes）与国防制造与加工中心（NCDMM）近日联合发布两项总金额达2560万美元的项目招标，重点聚焦国防领域的金属增材制造。其中，“金属增材互换性成熟计划”（MIAMI）获1240万美元资助，旨在验证金属增材材料能否有效替代传统合金。该项目分两阶段推进：首阶段评估材料替代可行性并制定工艺规范，终阶段开展综合测试。预计将颁发三项奖项，并要求各团队共享验证数据。另一项“集成式原位测试评估系统”（INSITE）项目获1320万美元支持，目标在于建立一套融合原位监测与构建后检测的质量保障体系。该系统重点关注大型部件、致密材料及复杂几何形状的检测难点，而非单独推进传感技术，力求构建一个可认证的集成检测框架。这两项计划直接服务于美国国防部的工业基础强化战略。MIAMI项目通过推动材料互换性，增强供应链韧性；INSITE项目则依托集成检测体系，提升增材制造的整体可靠性。二者相辅相成，共同加速金属增材技术在国防领域的规模化应用进程；后续可关注材料替代数据共享机制与在线检测技术集成方案。

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