--- title: "VulcanForms and Specter Aerospace partner on US hypersonic manufacturing capacity" url: https://www.voxelmatters.com/vulcanforms-and-specter-aerospace-partner-on-us-hypersonic-manufacturing-capacity/ date: 2026-09-16 modified: 2026-09-16 lang: en author: "Davide Sher" description: "VulcanForms and Specter Aerospace formed a strategic partnership to produce air-breathing hypersonic weapons at scale, aiming to build the manufacturing and all-up-round (AUR) integration capacity the US military needs for..." categories: - "Acquisitions, Mergers & Partnerships" - "AM Industry" - "Defense" - "Industrial Additive Manufacturing" image: https://www.voxelmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/68dac19af5d1c90de1ee8249_ANVIL0011-p-1600-640x360.jpg word_count: 409 --- # VulcanForms and Specter Aerospace partner on US hypersonic manufacturing capacity [VulcanForms ](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/specter-aerospace/)and[ Specter Aerospace](https://www.voxelmatters.directory/company/specter-aerospace/) formed a strategic partnership to produce air-breathing hypersonic weapons at scale, aiming to build the manufacturing and all-up-round (AUR) integration capacity the US military needs for low-cost hypersonic munitions, interceptors, and cruise missiles. Congresswoman Lori Trahan recently visited the VulcanForms facility in Devens, MA. "The Defense Industrial Base 2.0 must be resilient. VulcanForms is unique because it serves all industries, which has allowed us to learn and share faster with our customers. Partnerships that win embrace physical AI and draw on lessons from commercial industries. Our north star is to bridge the digital and physical worlds," said VulcanForms Executive Vice President Matthew Rose. The companies frame the deal as a response to demand from Congress, the DoW, and mission partners for next-generation hypersonic munitions, alongside the current administration's push to rebuild the American industrial base. VulcanForms, based in Harvard, Massachusetts, brings high-volume metal 3D printing, post-processing, and manufacturing engineering built for commercial industries. Specter Aerospace brings nearly a decade of hypersonic vehicle development work carried out alongside the DoW. Specter has already used VulcanForms' manufacturing capabilities in its hypersonic vehicle programs, a relationship the companies say has shortened design cycles, strengthened the supply chain, and lowered costs. The new partnership extends that work toward faster field testing and operational integration, and toward converting Specter's development history into what the companies describe as one of the country's most advanced full-rate production facilities for the category. VulcanForms and Specter are running a nationwide site evaluation for that future dedicated production facility. In the meantime, the partnership draws on both companies' existing production-ready sites to stand up a long-term manufacturing operation, combining Specter's missile design and program history with VulcanForms' additive manufacturing and post-processing capacity to turn critical minerals into finished munitions. "Specter has spent nearly a decade building air-breathing hypersonic missiles and targets in collaboration with the Department of War," said Specter Aerospace CEO Felipe Gomez del Campo. "Today, in response to the urgency of delivering hypersonic munitions to the U.S. Joint Force to deter our adversaries, Specter is partnering with VulcanForms to build America's first dedicated hypersonic manufacturing capacity from the ground up to deliver affordable and lethal hypersonic weapons to fighter aircraft and joint operations." The partnership adds to a run of additive manufacturing deals tied to hypersonics and defense reindustrialization in the US, as metal 3D printing continues to move from prototyping into qualified, full-rate production roles for munitions programs.