{"id":9182,"date":"2013-12-02T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2013-12-02T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:15:42","slug":"new-tech-and-national-security-law-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/new-tech-and-national-security-law-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"New Tech and National Security Law \u2013 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">By <a title=\"Posts by Paul Rosenzweig\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/author\/paul\/\" rel=\"author\">Paul Rosenzweig<\/a><br \/> Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven\u2019t been following along, this recent story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/printed-plastic-guns-a-growing-worry-for-law-enforcement\/2013\/11\/13\/211e9f74-4cad-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html\">3D printing of plastic guns<\/a> should be a revelation. 3D printing is one of those technologies where the reality is fast outrunning our imagination. It is, in essence, the ability to construct a product from feedstock using a readily available \u201cprinter\u201d linked to a computer where the source code for the product is executed. According the Washington Post\u2019s story, the new plastic guns are capable of firing lethal rounds and, naturally, they are beyond the detection of metal detectors.<\/p>\n<p>But for every \u201cparade of horrible story\u201d about 3D printing there\u2019s also one of great promise. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-nasa-3-d-printer-space-station-20130930,0,4845948.story#axzz2kegPK24d\">NASA recently announced plans to send a 3D printer to the space station<\/a>. This development, combined with the development of printing for metal objects (from liquid metal feedstock) means that many of our concepts of logistics will go out the window. If a manufacturer can construct metal parts from an easily transported feed stock then, as Andrew Filo, a consultant with NASA on the 3D space station printing project, said: \u201cYou can get rid of concepts like rationing, scarce or irreplaceable.\u201d That\u2019s a truly extraordinary development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/2013\/12\/new-tech-and-national-security-law-3d-printing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Rosenzweig Monday, December 2, 2013 at 7:00 AM For those who haven\u2019t been following along, this recent story about 3D printing of plastic guns should be a revelation. 3D printing is one of those technologies where the reality is fast outrunning our imagination. It is, in essence, the ability to construct a product [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,40,14,38,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-complex-systems","category-defense","category-engineering","category-geopolitics","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}