Get new equipment into the warfighter’s hands faster
David Vergun, Army News Service
Monday, June 04, 2018
Two relatively new initiatives are cutting costs and reducing the time it takes to get new equipment into the hands of warfighters, said Army logisticians.
The initiatives are the Defense Innovation Unit – Experimental (DIUx), a mechanism for executing prototype contracts quickly, and additive manufacturing, a process that uses 3-D printers to produce metal parts that are traditionally machined on mills and lathes or forged.
The logisticians spoke at an Association of the United States Army Sustainment Hot Topic forum at the Virginia State University in Petersburg, Va.
https://www.ausa.org/articles/get-new-equipment-warfighter%E2%80%99s-hands-faster
