{"id":10051,"date":"2014-02-04T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:51","slug":"3d-printing-central-to-future-military-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/3d-printing-central-to-future-military-strategy","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Central to Future Military Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/Author\/ID\/149764\/KyleMaxey\">Kyle Maxey<\/a>- <a class=\"fn org url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Engineering.com\">Engineering.com<\/a><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/> A recently presented paper outlines how 3D printing, robotic assembly lines and airborne drones will become the cornerstone of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/DesignerEdge\/DesignerEdgeArticles\/ArticleID\/5566\/Boeings-Next-Generation-Fighter.aspx\">future military production<\/a>.<br \/> Co-authored by Ben Fitzgerald and Dr. Aaron Martin, both experts in the field of strategic planning and security, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnas.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications-pdf\/CNAS_ProcessOverPlatforms_FitzGerald.pdf\">the paper<\/a> describes how additive manufacturing can shift today\u2019s military procurement paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the US military is faced with a huge problem. New systems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/DesignerEdge\/DesignerEdgeArticles\/ArticleID\/5569\/F-35B-Makes-Nighttime-Vertical-Landing.aspx\">take decades to develop, face massive cost over-runs and often aren\u2019t adaptable to changing strategic needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To solve this problem Fitzgerald proposes that the military adopt additive manufacturing as a way to accelerate the development and procurement process. As the paper\u2019s authors see it, 3D printers offer the military three distinct advantages over traditional manufacturing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/3DPrinting\/3DPrintingArticles\/ArticleID\/7074\/3D-Printing-Central-to-Future-Military-Strategy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Maxey- Engineering.com A recently presented paper outlines how 3D printing, robotic assembly lines and airborne drones will become the cornerstone of future military production. Co-authored by Ben Fitzgerald and Dr. Aaron Martin, both experts in the field of strategic planning and security, the paper describes how additive manufacturing can shift today\u2019s military procurement paradigm. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65046,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/65046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}