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Approved for Public Release – Project Call - ATRQ
Advanced Tools for Rapid Qualification (ATRQ)
While the technical maturity of AM technology has progressed rapidly, the tools and data necessary to give engineering authorities the same confidence in the quality and performance
- f AM parts as those that are traditionally manufactured has been lacking. AM parts must at
least meet the same quality requirements as traditionally produced parts for a given application, but current approaches to qualification and certification are tailored to high volume production with well-established manufacturing processes. Additive manufacturing is more agile, does not require extensive tooling, and is often used to produce single or small lots of parts for which an expensive and time-consuming certification process is counter-productive. Thus, the DoD has identified a need to develop the capability to rapidly qualify AM processes and materials at lower costs than can currently be achieved.
*Proposal teams are strongly encouraged to actively partner with DoD organizations during the proposal writing stage.