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America Makes Launches $8M Materials Projects
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America Makes and NCDMM launched two project calls totaling $8 million on January 29 to address materials development and qualification for defense additive manufacturing. The $6 million PADAM 2.0 targets refractory alloys for high-temperature AM, while the $2 million AIM-4AM funds AI modeling for 17-4PH LPBF allowables. The programs aim to improve material property data, process robustness, and supply-chain verification for DoD applications.
