Process to Apply Additive Manufacturing for Affordable Missile Defense

Titan Industries has leveraged deep knowledge of AM processes to author a comprehensive process for the selection, design, manufacture, certification, and use of additively manufactured components in aerospace. This proposal will align internal AM processes with existing NASA, FAA, and OEM aerospace quality and certification methods and pilot the process on an non-flight critical space component. The resulting process will combine component risk classification (manufacturing and operational), knockdown factors, statistical process control, and both post-process and in-situ inspection to produce components that are safe, predictable, and certifiable, while providing schedule and cost benefit that will allow proliferation of AM technology in the aerospace industry. The process will be specific enough to provide a repeatable template for certification, but flexible enough to enable evolution of requirements as AM technology matures. Approved for Public Release | 16-MDA-8917 (15 November 16)