The U.S. Army has an overarching concept for how it wants to use 3D printing and additive and subtractive manufacturing in the service, but it now has to develop a process for using the capabilities across the chain from arsenals, depots and plants down to the tactical level, Gen. Gus Perna, the Army Materiel Command commander, said.

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The Army has dabbled in 3D printing even at an expeditionary level with mobile trailers and has provided 3D printers that can produce polymers for some critical replacement parts like plastic caps, but as technology is evolving, the service is codifying a means to effectively use capability across […]

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