AEVEX Corp (NYSE: AVEX) and Divergent Technologies have announced a strategic partnership (Business Wire, Sept 2), leveraging Divergent's DAPS digital manufacturing platform—which integrates AI-driven design optimization, metal 3D printing, robotic assembly, and model-based certification—to explore adaptive UAV airframe architectures that shorten development cycles and reduce part counts. AEVEX is the first new customer announced since Divergent launched its Monolith One metal AM system; Divergent is also planning a 12-laser AM system and a 430,000-square-foot facility in Long Beach capable of housing 64 Monolith One units.