Announcement • Aug 12

Stratasys Ltd. Receives $7.8 Million Funding from America Makes and Department of War

Stratasys Ltd. had been awarded $7.8 million of funding through The 2026 America Makes and the Department of War Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge that focuses on advancing additive manufacturing and related technologies to support defense manufacturing modernization. The 24-month award will support development of on-site quality assurance capabilities for Stratasys’ F3300 and F900 industrial FDM platforms. This will enable manufacturers to generate the real-time process data needed to scale additive manufacturing production, expand capacity and reduce reliance on costly post-build inspection and qualification. America Makes, the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, brings together industry, government and academia to accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies that strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and defense readiness. Through the 2026 OIB Modernization Challenge, America Makes is supporting projects that advance manufacturing capabilities critical to industrial production, resilient supply chains and the defense industrial base. The project is designed to address one of the key barriers limiting broader adoption of additive manufacturing in production environments: the ability to verify part quality efficiently, consistently and with sufficient technical evidence to support scale. Today, manufacturers in highly regulated industries often rely on extensive post-print inspection and qualification processes before parts can be deployed. By enabling quality data to be captured during the build process, in-situ quality assurance can help manufacturers reduce inspection burdens, compress qualification cycles and add additive manufacturing capacity with greater confidence. The resulting capabilities are expected to support manufacturers across defense, aerospace, commercial aviation and other industrial markets where traceability, process control and part qualification are critical requirements. For the defense industrial base and defense prime contractors, in-situ quality assurance can help create a stronger technical foundation for expanding additive production capacity. For commercial aviation and highly regulated industrial manufacturers, it can provide a clearer pathway to scale production while reducing the cost and complexity associated with traditional inspection workflows. The project will focus on developing advanced monitoring capabilities for the F3300 and F900 platforms that provide greater visibility into the additive manufacturing process. By identifying potential anomalies during production and generating the documentation needed to support quality decisions, the technology is intended to help manufacturers improve production consistency, reduce qualification bottlenecks and accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing for production applications. For manufacturers evaluating additive manufacturing as a scalable production technology, the significance of the initiative extends beyond the monitoring capability itself. The availability of real-time, in-process quality data can help transform additive manufacturing from a qualified application-by-application approach into a more scalable production model, enabling manufacturers to add capacity faster and with greater confidence. America Makes plays a critical role in bringing together industry, government and technology leaders to address some of manufacturing’s most important challenges. Collaborative initiatives like this help accelerate innovation and strengthen the capabilities needed to support the future of advanced manufacturing.

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