AFRL Upgrades Rocket Fabrication Capabilities
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) upgraded its fabrication shop equipment with 20…
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Supporting Innovation With Automation: INL Researcher Develops Autonomous Hot Cell Tool
Scientific progress is anything but automatic. The path to new discoveries is not a straight line. But while the route…
U.S. Navy Equips USS Bataan With First Metal 3-D Printer
The Navy advanced efforts to improve self-sufficiency for deployed ships and their crews and reduce supply chain lead times by…
Engineers Develop a New Kind of Shape-Memory Material
The article discusses recent discoveries on the development of a novel type of shape-memory material by former doctorate candidates and…
Deep Learning Makes X-Ray CT Inspection of 3-D-Printed Parts Faster, More Accurate
A new deep-learning framework developed at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is speeding up the…
AFRL’s QUICKSINK Weapon Demo
DELIVERING KEY CAPABILITIES TO THE JOINT WARFIGHTER WHAT IS IT? QUICKSINK is a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) that rapidly…
Navy Price Fighters Develop Additive Manufacturing Cost, Time Model
NORFOLK, Va. – Additive Manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing, is becoming a popular solution in industrial settings. But…
Solid-State Processing: New Paths to New Materials
Creating materials in their solid state can be tricky but offers some advantages over other methods. It typically involves subjecting…
AFRL Experiments With Heat Flow to Manipulate Quantum Materials
WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Nano Electronic Materials Branch,…
Los Alamos National Laboratory to Lead Study of Molten-salt Nuclear Reactor Materials
Los Alamos National Laboratory has been selected by the Department of Energy as the lead on a $9.25 million, five-year…
MIT Researchers Use AI to Correct Additive Manufacturing Errors in Real Time
This article describes how engineers and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a machine-learning model to monitor…
Building the Future With Innovative Manufacturing
Airmen assigned to the 86th Maintenance Squadron created the Air Force’s first Additive Manufacturing Team through the Hercules Innovation Lab…