Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence Opens at Army Center

As the Army drives toward improving readiness today and modernizing future equipment, it has chosen Rock Island Arsenal- Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC),  located in Illinois, to house the Center of Excellence for Advanced and Additive Manufacturing. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 15.
Rock Island Arsenal has been producing readiness for our Army and our nation since 1862, said Col. Ken Letcher, RIA-JMTC commander at the ceremony. Today, we take our next step in that proud history. The great workforce here is ready to take that step and that step will help us operationalize additive manufacturing to fundamentally bend the curve of readiness for our Army. The Army is operationalizing additive and advanced manufacturing across the materiel enterprise to improve equipment readiness and Warfighter capabilities at the tactical level.