“Additive manufacturing offers advantages such as reduced material waste, lower energy intensity, reduced time to market, and just-in-time production that could bolster supply chains in the U.S.,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie Locascio. “Accelerating the adoption of new measurement methods and standards will help to advance U.S. competitiveness in this important industry.” These organizations will receive NIST Metals-Based Additive Manufacturing Grants Program funding to be spent over two years: The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.) — $957,706 To demonstrate an enhanced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technique that can determine key material properties such as oxide thicknesses, splatter particle percentage, grain size, and defect detection. Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colo.) — $956,888 To examine new optical metrologies to enable real-time process feedback and control to achieve process-based qualification and certification of metallic parts made by additive manufacturing. Auburn University (Auburn, Ala.) — $949,075 To establish a data-driven framework with computer vision and machine learning for the nondestructive qualification of additive manufacturing materials and parts for applications that cannot afford failures due to fatigue. General Electric, GE Research (Niskayuna, N.Y.) — $873,999 GE Research teamed up GE Additive and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to establish the Intelligent Stitch Integration for Testing and Evaluation (I-SITE) program to extend existing standardized methods and build correlations between sensor response, material behavior, and mechanical properties.