How DARPA Plans to Reinvent U.S. Manufacturing

August 27, 2010 | Source: Technology Review

Bradley Fighting Vehicle could be assembled from CAD drawings (U.S. Army)

DARPA is proposing a “foundry-style manufacturing capability” to reinvent manufacturing.

Its new iFAB program will make everything from powered exoskeletons to tanks in a generic fabrication facility. It will soon ask for requests for proposals from private industry.