NSPA begins supporting NATO with Additive Manufacturing capabilities

The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) will begin supporting NATO nations with Additive Manufacturing capabilities.

NSPA has developed the Repository for Additively manufactured Products in a Digital Environment (RAPiD-e), a digital collaboration platform to securely store, publish, share, request and consume Technical Data Packages associated with parts production through additive manufacturing.

This platform ensures interoperability and improves collaboration in the additive manufacturing domain amongst NATO nations and their partners.

About Additive Manufacturing

NATO is continuously looking to leverage new technologies that have the potential to address the needs of military logistics chains.

Additive Manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, has been identified as an emerging and disruptive technology with the potential to improve readiness, reduce obsolescence issues, decrease sustainment costs, compress the supply chain, and enhance warfighting capability.

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