3DPrint.com January 30, 2024
At the end of 2023, the Biden Administration announced the development of a task force dedicated to supply chain resilience. A month later, the Department of Defense (DoD) published its first ever National Defense Industrial Strategy, laying out its objectives related to its supply chain. According to the “Additive Manufacturing for Military and Defense” report from Additive Manufacturing (AM) Research, the DoD alone was on track to spend $300 million directly on AM in 2023.
These efforts signify the institutional foundations for the next era of manufacturing—that is, Industry 4.0. Under the umbrella of supply chain resilience (or vice versa) falls the larger issue of sustainability. While we’d like to think that corporate and national efforts are being driven by...
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