The Re-VAMMP program aims to increase the adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) of Virginia’s defense industrial base (DIB), particularly in small and medium size independent machine shops.
The defense industrial base faces a continuous modernization challenge to ensure that the United States warfighter always maintains superior advantage in a theater of war. Reliance on legacy systems in conjunction with supply-chain bottlenecks has delayed investment and innovation in advanced manufacturing technologies.
Consequently, a critical need exists to adopt and implement digital manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing (AM), to reduce cost, improve reliability, and implement new capabilities.
Department of Defense (DoD) depots, shipyards, and arsenals as well as its prime contractors rely heavily on independent machine shops with little modern infrastructure to manufacture parts for weapon systems. These machine shops form the backbone of the Defense manufacturing supply-chain but, in general, do not have the expertise and capabilities to produce parts with AM.
The lack of adoption of AM technologies by independent machine shops weakens the Defense manufacturing supply-chain, slows innovation and technological advancement of weapons systems and, ultimately, creates a national security challenge.
Re-VAMMP Services At A Glance
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Implementation Road Mapping
To address the need for modernization in the Defense manufacturing supply-chain, Re-VAMMP has three goals:
DISCOVER
Discover and define the requirements that the defense industrial base imposes on suppliers of metal AM parts.
Identifying those requirements, in particular related to qualification and part quality, is crucial to educating independent machine shops about metal AM and driving adoption of AM technology in the Defense manufacturing supply-chain.
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EDUCATE
Discover the Future of Manufacturing with Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM)
Are you a metal manufacturer in Virginia looking to stay ahead of the curve? Join us for a series of transformative workshops designed to build a common understanding of the benefits and requirements of Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM).
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DRIVE
Drive adoption of metal AM by independent machine shops in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Increase availability of metal AM services to the Defense manufacturing supply-chain, and drive modernization of the Defense industrial base.
COMING SOON!
U.S. Department of Defense Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC) awarded Project Grant HQ00052310040 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) under the Economic Adjustment Assistance for State Governments program (CFDA 12.617), of which GENEDGE is a subrecipient.