Sailors show OPNAV 3-D printed solutions Pentagon 'would never see'

By Justin Katz / February 20, 2018 at 1:34 PM
Senior leadership's Navy-wide push to integrate additive manufacturing has highlighted how prevalent the technology's use already is among enlisted sailors and junior officers. "We found people that had additive manufacturing capability that we didn't know about -- people that are doing things that we didn't know about," Capt. Jason Bridges, lead for additive manufacturing in the office of the chief of naval operations (N415), told Inside the Navy in a Feb. 8 interview at the Pentagon. "You've got sailors that...

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