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More and more U.S. warship and submarine parts are being 3D-printed—and now the Navy is going after the “really hard problems,” a top official says. “I could go anywhere in the Navy, and you will see ...

Through a partnership with the Navy’s Disruptive Technology Lab, the team at ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) created the military’s first 3D-printed submersible hull. The Optionally ...

Sometimes the best way to figure out how something works is to make a model of it. 3D-modeling software makes it possible to do the job in silico, and sometimes that’s enough. But to really get inside ...

The Navy’s nuclear-powered warships increasingly will be made of 3D printed parts, which are cutting costs and reducing production time on billion-dollar ships that are years in the making. Huntington ...