Dyndrite Team Picked for America Makes AI Initiative

Dyndrite reports that its team has been selected by America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech) Artificial Intelligence for Material Allowables in Additive Manufacturing (AIM-4AM) project call. 

The Dyndrite-led team includes Mimo Technik, which will execute controlled LPBF builds and testing coordination, and RTX, which will serve as the technology transition partner to help ensure application relevance and support transition requirements for defense and aerospace applications.

The AIM-4AM program is a $2 million initiative seeking to develop an AI-driven framework to identify and quantify risks within the existing material allowables approach for Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). This project will demonstrate the framework using 17-4PH stainless steel in the H1025 condition. The initiative is intended to help reduce the time, cost, and testing burden associated with traditional additive manufacturing qualification and certification workflows while maintaining rigorous statistical and engineering confidence, according to Dyndrite.

The selected project will focus on combining machine learning, process-aware modeling, and statistically informed validation methods to support more agile and production-relevant qualification workflows for additive manufacturing.

“Additive manufacturing qualification has historically required extensive C/D basis physical testing because the black box nature of machines creates uncertainty in the process and risk,” says Harshil Goel, founder and CEO of Dyndrite. “This program is about helping quantify and manage that uncertainty more intelligently using ML-assisted methods grounded in process control, data pedigree, statistical confidence, and validation testing.”

As part of the program, the Dyndrite team will:

• Develop ML-driven methodologies to assess and quantify qualification risk associated with reduced physical testing
• Generate preliminary qualification datasets for LPBF-produced 17-4PH H1025 material
• Validate AI predictions against experimental tensile and fatigue data
• Develop a framework supporting statistically informed reduced-testing protocols
• Establish production-oriented approaches aligned with material allowables development and qualification requirements

The program aligns with broader Department of Defense and industry priorities focused on accelerating additive manufacturing industrialization while improving repeatability, scalability, and confidence in qualified AM production. Dyndrite’s role in the project builds upon its broader work in software-defined manufacturing, feature-aware process development, process automation, and scalable LPBF qualification workflows.

“This initiative represents an important step toward modernizing how additive manufacturing materials are qualified for production use,” adds Goel. “The long-term opportunity is not simply reducing testing. It is accelerating the adoption of additive manufacturing through smart parameter development, and building confidence in the manufacturing process.”

The AIM-4AM program is managed by America Makes and NCDMM with funding support from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech).

For more on the AIM-4AM program, click here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.