The Premier Advanced Manufacturing Event for Defense
June 24 - 25, 2025
| Hilton Los Angeles, Culver City, CA
Agenda Day 2
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8:00 am - 8:50 am
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
8:55 am - 9:00 am
Chairman’s Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 9:30 am
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING FROM A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE PERSPECTIVE
- Why the intelligence community is interested in advanced manufacturing
- The importance of advanced manufacturing in keeping the US military at optimal operational readiness
- Ensuring collaboration between the Department of Defense and industry for advanced manufacturing capabilities
9:30 am - 10:00 am
SCALABLE COMPOSITES ROBOTIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (SCRAM) FABRICATED CONTINUOUS FIBER COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
David Ivankovich -
Staff Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Technology R&D,
Northrop Grumman
- Fully automated factory in a cell
- Toolless, or hard tooled, manufacturing for rapid prototyping and high-rate production
- Preform fabrication for C/C composites
10:00 am - 10:30 am
TUNGSTEN 3D PRINTING – NEW MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY FOR DEFENSE APPLICATIONS
- How Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion (EB-PBF) technology enables the reliable 3D printing of pure tungsten components—overcoming traditional manufacturing and laser powder bed fusion limitations for high-density, high-temperature applications like hypersonics, kinetic penetrators, and radiation shielding
- This presentation will include initial mechanical property data, part density, and additional technical details showing the stability and consistency of EB-PBF printed tungsten
- Exploration of how this advanced manufacturing capability can potentially support defense applications by producing complex, refractory metal parts
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Morning Coffee and Networking in the Exhibition Hall
11:00 am - 11:30 am
MANUFACTURING FOR THE US NAVY – ON AND OFF BOARD
- Understanding the qualifications for additive manufacturing for the US Navy
- Additive manufacturing for current and future platforms
- The constraints and challenges that the US Navy faces with additive manufacturing
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
DEVELOPING ADVANCED DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE US AIR FORCE
- Updates on the work of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory
- Enabling rapid refitting of systems in the field for quick turnarounds
- How the US Air Force is partnering with industry to further digital manufacturing
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
IMPROVING THE DIGITAL THREAD IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- The importance of the digital thread for advancing emerging technologies
- Shortening the time spent on reformatting data to focus on work
- How digital threads lead to easier scaling
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
ADVANCING US ADDITIVE CONSTRUCTION
- Overview on the realities of additive construction
- Differences in expeditionary printing and construction printing
- Next stages of additive construction
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
INNOVATING MATERIAL SOLUTIONS
- Overview of the additive manufacturing research done at University of Southern California
- Research institutions partnerships with industry
- Current material innovation efforts
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBITION HALL
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
GROWING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR AIRBREATHING HYPERSONICS
- Consolidating manufacturing practices
- Initial challenges producing for the program
- Meeting environmental requirements
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
THE VITAL ROLE THAT INSTITUES ARE PLAYING IN BUILDING AMERICA’S ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SECTOR
- How institutes such as ARMS Institute, LIFT and MxD are partnering with DOD Mantech to push advanced manufacturing innovation in the DOD
- Ways institutes are partnering with industry to improve advanced manufacturing supply chains for the Department of Defense
- How institutes are helping the Department of Defense implement advanced manufacturing faster
