Cybersecurity & Tech

3D Printing on the High Seas

Paul Rosenzweig
Friday, April 25, 2014, 4:23 PM
I knew this was coming.  Just not this soon.  The Navy is sending a 3D printer to sea.  It's a small step: "The crew has been making everything from disposable medical supplies (think plastic syringes), to a new cap they designed for an oil tank, to model p

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I knew this was coming.  Just not this soon.  The Navy is sending a 3D printer to sea.  It's a small step: "The crew has been making everything from disposable medical supplies (think plastic syringes), to a new cap they designed for an oil tank, to model planes to move around their mock-up of the flight deck, but they aren’t printing out spare parts for real airplanes any time soon."

Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.

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