{"id":45234,"date":"2017-09-18T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/18\/materiel-command-head-hopes-3-d-printed-metals-will-help-supplier-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:02:13","slug":"materiel-command-head-hopes-3-d-printed-metals-will-help-supplier-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/09\/18\/materiel-command-head-hopes-3-d-printed-metals-will-help-supplier-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Materiel Command head hopes 3-D printed metals will help supplier issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2015&nbsp;Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the head of U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, has a supplier issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is constantly struggling to find suppliers for parts on aging planes that the original manufacturers may no longer produce. In some cases, the companies that built the part have long exited the business, but the Air Force requirements remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOftentimes we have parts that we can no longer get, and they\u2019re in small numbers, so we can\u2019t get interest in the part of an industry to build something when there\u2019s only a small number and they have to retool or do that,\u201d she told reporters at the Air Force Association\u2019s annual conference on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/\"><b>Click here for the latest coverage from the Air Force Association!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only solution at the moment, according to Pawlikowski? \u201cWell, we have to pay more. We often can find somebody, but at an awful high price, and we\u2019re beholden to them because we don\u2019t have any competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She hopes that will change in the near future, however, thanks to developments in additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s hardly a new technology at this point, but two things have changed for how the Air Force looks at the potential of 3-D printing. The first is that the technology has become more widespread and adopted across the Pentagon. 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