Under threat of air strikes, US looks to bolster base infrastructure with 3D printing

With many U.S. bases in the Middle East damaged by Iranian bombardment , the U.S. Air Force wants to develop mobile 3D concrete printers to erect buildings quickly. “Put bluntly, the Air Force has spent decades building exquisite kill chains while too often housing the airmen who sustain them in tents, trailers, and flat-walled structures that were never designed for the threat environment now arriving overhead,” admitted the Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research solicitation, which will close in January 2027. Concrete printing , in which printers deposit layers of material to form…