SEATTLE, Wash. — August 18, 2026 — Dyndrite, provider of the software infrastructure transforming digital manufacturing, today announced its selection as a project team partner on the $5.5 million Generation Of Technical-data for High-strength Aluminum Alloy Material (GOTHAAM) program, an America Makes initiative focused on accelerating the qualification and production adoption of high-strength aluminum alloys for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing.

America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead the GOTHAAM program, funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech). Dyndrite is an official member of the winning project team, which brings together leaders spanning the aerospace and defense, additive manufacturing, machine OEM, materials and raw-material supply chains.

The program's objective is to develop material allowables for a high-strength, 7075-T73-equivalent scandium-aluminum alloy (Scalmalloy®) across three classes of LPBF additive manufacturing systems, enabling scalable production across small, medium and large-format printers, including the EOS M290 and M400/4, Nikon SLM 280, SLM 500 and NXG/E, and GE/Colibrium Additive M2. The resulting material and process capability is intended to support corrosion-resistant, aerospace-grade components for defense and commercial applications and transition the technology into qualified production.

For Dyndrite, the project tackles one of the most consequential challenges facing industrial additive manufacturing today: how to efficiently qualify a material and process across different machines, machine architectures, laser configurations and manufacturing sites.

SASSQUATCH = Dyndrite Delta Qualification 

Qualification of critical additive manufacturing components has historically been closely tied to a specific combination of material, machine, fixed process parameters and manufacturing site. Changes to any of those variables can trigger expensive additional testing and requalification.

GOTHAAM seeks to establish a more scalable approach.

Under the GA-ASI-led technical plan, Dyndrite’s SASSQUATCH methodology will be used to accelerate process harmonization across multiple LPBF platforms by providing software control over critical manufacturing variables including laser assignment, toolpath zoning, stitching zones, gas-flow considerations, laser power, scan speed and Z-height. The program will show that controlling these variables will increase process consistency across different printers, generating equivalency datasets required for qualification.

“Qualification remains one of the significant barriers preventing metal additive manufacturing from scaling into true production,” said Harshil Goel, Founder and CEO of Dyndrite. “Today, changing a machine, site, parameter set or process configuration can mean repeating enormous amounts of qualification work. GOTHAAM gives this team an opportunity to demonstrate a different approach: explicitly control the manufacturing process, understand the meaningful deltas between systems, and determine what actually needs to be requalified, all through software.”

A coalition spanning the additive manufacturing supply chain

The GOTHAAM team brings together organizations across virtually every stage of the additive manufacturing ecosystem.

Led by GA-ASI, the winning team includes Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Airbus Space & Defense + AP Works, MIMO Technik, Quadrus Corporation, Hadrian Additive, Nikon AM, EOS America, Valimet, Toyal America, Equispheres, AMG Aluminum, Rio Tinto, Sunrise Metals, NioCorp, Dyndrite and Scot Forge.

This breadth is particularly important because GOTHAAM is designed not simply to demonstrate a material on a single printer, but to generate validated data and mature LPBF capabilities that can support qualified production throughout the U.S. manufacturing base.

From machine-specific to software-defined qualification

Dyndrite's role in GOTHAAM reflects a larger shift in additive manufacturing qualification: moving from processes defined primarily by individual machines toward manufacturing processes that can be explicitly defined, controlled, analyzed and transferred through software.

Rather than relying solely on machine-specific build preparation software and fixed parameter recipes, Dyndrite provides programmatic control over geometry, toolpaths, process parameters, laser assignments and multi-laser strategies.

Part of a broader effort to reinvent AM qualification

GOTHAAM further expands Dyndrite's work with America Makes and the U.S. defense manufacturing community to modernize additive manufacturing qualification.

Dyndrite was recently selected to support Delta Qual 2.0, an America Makes initiative focused on establishing new methods for rapidly qualifying changes to additive manufacturing processes, including bracketed qualification approaches that allow engineers to operate within defined process windows.

Dyndrite also leads Artificial Intelligence for Material Allowables in Additive Manufacturing (AIM-4AM), an approximately $2 million program with MIMO Technik and RTX focused on using AI, physics-based modeling and statistical methods to reduce the physical testing required to generate material allowables for LPBF 17-4PH stainless steel.

Together, the three efforts attack different dimensions of the same qualification challenge:

AIM-4AM: How can the industry use advanced and modern statistics to reduce the physical testing required to establish trusted material allowables?

Delta Qual 2.0: How can manufacturers establish qualified process windows that allow engineering changes without unnecessarily triggering complete requalification?

GOTHAAM: How can qualified material and process knowledge be applied across different machine classes and manufacturing environments to enable scalable production?

For Dyndrite, the common denominator is software: making the manufacturing process programmable, traceable and transferable so qualification can evolve from a machine-specific exercise into a known, scalable engineering discipline.

Strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base

According to America Makes, GOTHAAM is intended to deliver validated material data and mature LPBF capability that gives U.S. manufacturers greater confidence in producing reliable components for critical defense systems. The program also seeks to create a strong return on investment for original equipment manufacturers and the organic industrial base as the technology transitions into qualified production.

By developing material allowables across multiple LPBF machine classes and combining them with process-control and equivalency methodologies, GOTHAAM could provide a model for introducing new materials and expanding qualified additive manufacturing capacity throughout the broader U.S. industrial base.

Learn more about Dyndrite Delta Qualification (SASSQUATCH) at ICAM26

Join Dyndrite for technical presentations with our partners, the announcement of our Student Competition winner, and a series of interactive workshops where LPBF users move beyond presentations and work directly with Dyndrite's software.

The Dyndrite workshops provide engineers with hands-on experience where they learn how to automate build preparation, implement feature-based process strategies, optimize multi-laser production, and create programmable manufacturing workflows that reduce hidden process variability while accelerating qualification and production.

Reserve your spot, visit: https://www.dyndrite.com/astm-icam26-dyndrite

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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