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VEXTEC Presenting at ASTM Conference on Advanced Manufacturing

VEXTEC is honored to present at this year's ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing (ICAM 2023), held October 30 - November 3 2023 in Washington D.C. VEXTEC's CTO Dr. Bob Tryon is speaking on "Computational Fatigue Models to Assist in Risk-Based Certification of Additively Manufactured Metallic Parts" on November [...]

VEXTEC Presents at JANNAF with Aerojet Rocketdyne on Accelerating Additive Manufacturing Certification

VEXTEC is honored to be part of this year’s JANNAF Liquid Propulsion Subcommittee (LPS) Advanced Materials Panel (AMP) Additive Manufacturing for Propulsion Applications Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) in Huntsville, AL. VEXTEC (supported by Aerojet Rocketdyne) presented results from a recent SBIR program that developed an additive manufacturing certification framework [...]

By |2022-11-17T15:36:59-06:00November 17th, 2022|Aerospace, Blog, DoD, Events, Press Releases & Media|0 Comments

VEXTEC to Provide VPS-MICRO® Software & Services for Air Force Additive Manufacturing Needs under New SBIR Phase III Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Brentwood, TN, October 10, 2022 – The United States Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (USAF RSO) has signed-on for a yearlong Phase III program with VEXTEC Corporation. The Phase III program will deploy VEXTEC’s VPS-MICRO computational predictive software to USAF engineering teams at the forefront of [...]

Laser Powder Bed Fusion AM Work by VEXTEC and Lockheed

Collaborative work between VEXTEC and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics on Additive Manufacturing (AM) has recently been presented at two high-profile aerospace conferences. The work focused on Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) additive techniques for AlSi10Mg and Ti-6Al-4V alloys. VEXTEC's computational VPS-MICRO® product reliability software predicted the fatigue performance of LPBF [...]

By |2022-04-13T13:48:27-05:00February 2nd, 2022|Aerospace, Blog, Computational Technology, Events|0 Comments

Additive Manufacturing Is Sparking an Aerospace Revolution

If you took apart a brand new aircraft piece by piece, you’d likely find numerous items created through additive manufacturing: cabin parts, engine components, air ducting, brackets, and many more. Manufacturers already use 3D printing and various types of additive manufacturing (AM) to expedite the design and build process [...]

By |2021-09-29T15:49:03-05:00November 20th, 2020|Aerospace, Blog, Manufacturing|0 Comments

VEXTEC and Aerojet Rocketdyne Accelerating Additive Manufacturing Certification for Air Force

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., April 28, 2020—VEXTEC® Corporation in Nashville, TN, has been awarded a small business innovative research (SBIR) contract, supported by Aerojet Rocketdyne, to develop an additive manufacturing certification framework for Air Force applications, with the objective of accelerating the qualification and adoption process for new additive [...]

VEXTEC Scores Second Air Force ‘Pitch Day’ Success in the Same Week

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – VEXTEC was selected to be an awardee at the Air Force’s inaugural Technical Executive Officer Pitch Day, held near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio on November 15, 2019. This marked the second Pitch Day award that VEXTEC garnered [...]

VEXTEC Awarded Air Force SBIR Phase II Program to Accelerate AM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – Last week, VEXTEC was among a shortlisted group of small businesses that participated in the US Air Force’s Open Innovation Pitch Day for Rapid Sustainment. After VEXTEC’s Phase I work demonstrated the feasibility of a virtual [...]

Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) & DMSMS 2018 Trip Report

In the first week of December 2018, VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee played host to the co-located meetings for the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and the working group for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS). These are the premier annual meetings related to the [...]

By |2021-09-29T15:57:57-05:00January 18th, 2019|Aerospace, Blog, DoD, Events, Manufacturing, Simulation Technology|0 Comments