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$402,229,566

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

to NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING

defenseactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2019 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2019-11-25·LATEST ACTION2026-06-18·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA86502025700_097
Award description

AMERICA MAKES PARTNERSHIP (AMP) THE NATIONAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION INSTITUTE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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In plain English

Latest obligation on the America Makes Partnership, a 2019 additive manufacturing innovation institute supporting U.S. defense industrial capacity.

Sub-sectors
advanced-manufacturingadditive-manufacturingindustrial-base
Why this matters

Additive manufacturing is critical to DoD supply-chain resilience and reduces dependence on traditional manufacturing for complex defense components.

Supply-chain signal

Strengthens domestic capability in 3D printing and advanced manufacturing, reducing reliance on foreign suppliers for precision defense parts.

U.S.–China competition angle

Directly counters China's advances in additive manufacturing and protects U.S. defense-industrial autonomy in next-generation production methods.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-18. Cost: $0.002918.

Period of performance
Start
2019-11-25
End
2031-02-26
Status
activein 1702 days
Sources

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