As part of their Master’s Program industrial focus “Additive Manufacturing”, each year hundreds of students and faculty members from the National Defense University tour sites across the US and Europe to learn more about how government, industry, and academia collaborate to connect innovation research, intellectual property management, and the commercialization of these efforts within industry.
This March 1, 2018, ten senior military personnel holding the rank of either Colonel or Lt. Colonel on a path to become Flag Officers and Senior Executive Service (SES) members serving in the federal government visited our facility as part of their tour to ORNL, UT and IACMI facilities.