Mid-Scale Manufacturing and Characterization Capacity for Department of Defense Critical Materials Supply Challenges, Part 1: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
2025
Accelerating, scaling up, and transitioning technologies to produce or replace critical materials - materials that are not found or produced in the United States in quantities to meet U.S. defense needs - are essential to enable the United States to develop and sustain emerging technologies and improve its warfighting capability. Mid-scale manufacturing and characterization capacity in combination with modeling and simulation are expected to play a key role in this effort.
To explore U.S. manufacturing and characterization capacity for mid-scale production, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Defense Materials, Manufacturing, and Its Infrastructure Standing Committee hosted the first part of a two-part workshop on January 29-30, 2025. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Mid-Scale Manufacturing and Characterization Capacity for Department of Defense Critical Materials Supply Challenges, Part 1: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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