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title: "Stratasys wins $7.8 million in defense funding from America Makes"
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date: 2026-08-15
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description: "Stratasys has won $7.8 million in funding through the 2026 America Makes and Department of Defense’s Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge, a program aimed at advancing additive manufacturing for..."
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# Stratasys wins $7.8 million in defense funding from America Makes

[Stratasys](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/stratasys/) has won $7.8 million in funding through the 2026 [America Makes](https://www.voxelmatters.com/america-makes-announces-1-3m-catacs-project-call/) and Department of Defense’s Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge, a program aimed at advancing additive manufacturing for defense manufacturing modernization. 

The 24-month award will fund development of in-situ quality assurance capabilities for Stratasys' F3300 and F900 industrial FDM platforms, generating real-time process data meant to [help manufacturers scale production and cut reliance on costly post-build inspection](https://www.voxelmatters.com/bmw-led-study-highlights-need-for-ai-based-am-part-identification/).

Through the OIB Modernization Challenge, America Makes is funding projects it says advance manufacturing capabilities important to industrial production and the defense industrial base.

## Addressing a bottleneck

The project targets what Stratasys and America Makes described as a central barrier to broader adoption of additive manufacturing in production: [verifying part quality with speed, consistency and enough technical evidence to support scale](https://www.voxelmatters.com/how-massivit-3d-is-overcoming-the-bottlenecks-of-composite-tooling/).

![](https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/STRP030-Image-2-F900-F3300-340x227.jpg)

Manufacturers in heavily regulated industries currently rely on extensive post-print inspection before parts can enter service, and capturing quality data during the build, rather than after, is meant to reduce inspection burdens and compress qualification cycles.

“The next phase of additive manufacturing adoption within the defense industrial base is about moving from isolated applications to qualified, scalable production,” said John Wilczynski, Executive Director of America Makes.

“Stratasys' work to advance in-situ monitoring on established polymer production platforms addresses a critical part of that challenge – building greater trust in the manufacturing process and generating the data needed to support qualification. This project will create a stronger foundation for expanding additive manufacturing across production, sustainment and supply chain applications throughout the defense enterprise.”

## Monitoring capabilities

The work will develop monitoring capabilities for the F3300 and F900 platforms, giving what Stratasys described as greater visibility into the build process. Flagging anomalies during production and generating documentation to support quality decisions is meant to improve production consistency and reduce qualification bottlenecks.

The resulting capabilities are expected to support manufacturers across defense, aerospace, commercial aviation and other markets requiring traceability and part qualification.

“This initiative is about helping manufacturers scale additive production with confidence,” said Rich Garrity, Chief Business Unit Officer at Stratasys. “When production teams have access to quality data during the build process, they can qualify applications with less friction, expand production capacity more efficiently and integrate additive manufacturing more effectively into demanding production environments.

“America Makes plays a critical role in bringing together industry, government and technology leaders to address some of manufacturing's most important challenges. Collaborative initiatives like this help accelerate innovation and strengthen the capabilities needed to support the future of advanced manufacturing.”