US Air Force Awards Structured Light In-Situ Inspection Contract
August 8, 2023
Phase3D, a Chicago-based startup focused on in-situ inspection for powder-based additive manufacturing (AM), has been awarded a 2-year $1.25 million contract from the Air Force Research Lab to develop a quality inspection system for cold spray AM (CSAM).
This new technology will be installed at Ellsworth Air Force base in South Dakota.
CSAM has the potential to produce large parts and repair or reclad existing parts quickly for the Department of Defense (DoD).
The challenge today with CSAM is gathering objective data on the part as it is being built. Phase3D’s work through this contract will provide high quality, objective data on the process, something critical to growing its use case, especially in the field.
