| Abstract Scope |
While Advanced Manufacturing (AdvM) has matured to enable novel tools, materials, and geometries, the national security enterprise faces a persistent barrier: how to trust what AdvM produces. In low-volume, high-consequence production, confidence diverges from industry norms. Metrics like scale, lifetime, and data transparency do not align across sectors, and qualification schemas fail to accommodate AdvM’s hallmarks such as stochastic defect formation and incomplete process–structure–property understanding.
This talk presents a risk-informed technical perspective on where trust breaks down across the national security product realization lifecycle and what it will take to rebuild it. Drawing on curriculum developed jointly with UT Austin and Sandia’s CAMINO and Academic Alliance initiatives, it offers a practical framework to close a critical disconnect the field can no longer defer. |