Seattle, WA – June 4, 2026– Dyndrite™ today announced 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.

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,” said 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. We fully recognize the hesitation for generating allowables using new methods. We need to improve the confidence in the process and build trust in a rigorous manner. It’s just math and physics.”

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

“Mimo Technik is excited to support the AIM-4AM program and contribute our qualified production  experience, process controls, and LPBF manufacturing expertise to this important effort," said Jonathan Cohen, Founder of Mimo Technik. “One of the biggest barriers to scaling metal additive manufacturing has been the time and cost associated with qualification and materials testing. By combining controlled production workflows with AI-driven analysis and traceable manufacturing data, this project has the potential to help the industry move toward faster, more repeatable qualification methodologies.”

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,” added 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).

Dyndrite 2026 World Tour - June 9 @ EOS

LPBF manufacturers ready to take control of their additive workflows and qualification are invited to join the Dyndrite 2026 “You Control the Laser” World Tour, a multi-city, hands-on workshop series for users of Aconity3D, EOS, Nikon SLM, Renishaw, Velo3D, and XactMetal systems.

The next workshop, hosted in partnership with EOS, takes place on June 9 in Austin/Pflugerville, Texas.
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About Dyndrite

Dyndrite’s mission is to fundamentally change how geometry is created, transformed, and transmitted on computers. Built on its Accelerated Computation Engine (ACE)—the world’s first GPU-based geometry kernel—Dyndrite’s flagship product, Dyndrite LPBF Pro, delivers unmatched control, performance, scalability, and automation for additive manufacturing engineering applications. Customers across defense, space, energy, medical, and automotive industries gain full control over the additive process, enabling faster, more agile qualification, higher quality, and true production scale. 

For more information, visit dyndrite.com.

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