The 3-D printing process reduced the manufacturing time of one part, which traditionally takes nearly a year to produce, by ...

Johns Hopkins APL and NAVSEA 3D print military hardware - transforming naval hardware from risky backup to mission-critical ...

to help test the new printing technology out at sea. The Naval Postgraduate School, which led the research effort on the technology, helped to install the printer on the Essex and run diagnostic ...

Specifically, the Navy should return to service and repurpose two Expeditionary Transfer Dock ships (ESDs), both of which have a decade of life left ... forces at sea and providing wide-area ...