MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII — The Navy is experimenting with deployed 3D printing during the Rim of the Pacific exercise in pursuit of eventually shortening the supply line for crucially needed parts to ...

OFFICIALS SAY USING THEM FOR COWS AT A THE U.S. NAVY IS TESTING A NEW WAY TO MAKE PARTS ON THE SPOT ... EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. IT'S PART OF A MILITARY EXERCISE LED BY THE COMPANY FLEETWERX ...

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San Diego is home to the latest in on-demand military 3D-print manufacturing, at least for the duration of one global military exercise. KPBS military reporter Andrew Dyer has more on what it means ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The military is ...

A Firestorm xCell micro 3D printing factory loading onto a C-130 to print Tempest UAV systems at a U.S. Air Force base. Inside a standard shipping container, a "factory-in-a-box" hums to life. It is ...

Using a special 3D printer called ACES, or Automated Construction of Expeditionary Structures, U.S. Marines from the 1st Marine Logistics Group, along with the Marine Corps Systems Command’s Advanced ...

The U.S. Navy is testing a new method to produce parts on demand using 3D printing technology during a military exercise led by Fleetwerx and the Naval Postgraduate School. A representative from the ...