Friday, October 4, 2019
What is it?
Advanced manufacturing is the use of innovative technologies to create new or improved products or processes. It includes additive manufacturing or 3D printing, robotics, artificial intelligence and composite materials.
What are the current and past efforts of the Army?
The Secretary of the U.S. Army approved a new policy on advanced manufacturing that establishes a unified strategy to enable the Army to leverage the full potential of advanced manufacturing and maintain a competitive advantage.
The policy has three key principles:
Advanced manufacturing will enable the Army to:
What continued efforts does the Army have planned?
Moving forward, the Army will:
Why is this important to the Army?
The Army’s employment of advanced manufacturing methods and materials is in its infancy. The Army and the defense industrial base must rapidly innovate to keep pace with industry and adversaries exploiting advanced methods and materials.
Advanced manufacturing will allow the Army to achieve modernization and readiness objectives. It is part of the Army’s acquisition reform to improve the way the Army does business to make the Total Army more lethal, capable and efficient.
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Advanced manufacturing will fundamentally change the way the Army designs, delivers, produces and sustains materiel capabilities.
– Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy