Aerospace Rocketdyne Signs Defense Contract for 3D Printers

Big news coming from Aerospace Rocketdyne, who today announced the signing of a Defense contract in which they will supply the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with several large-scale metal sintering 3D printers. The printers will be used within the base for National Security Space Launch programs. The machines are capable of producing very large parts 6-times the size of the previous generation of machines the company had produced. Further details on this contract can be found here: http://3dprint.com/12380/3d-printing-defense-contract/

Let's hear your thoughts on what this contract could mean for the additive manufacturing space.
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