Pentagon Looks To Expand Supersonic Aircraft Industrial Base

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Originally published at: Pentagon Looks To Expand Supersonic Aircraft Industrial Base

Special notice seeks proposals aimed at production speed, sustainment costs and supply chain concerns.

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Let’s see here. My little three-man company makes composite components for kit aircraft. We share space with a company that prints T-shirts to keep our overhead costs low. In order to be profitable, of course we use CAD/CAM/CAE/CNC technologies, additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) of both molds and some finished parts. We have seamless integration of most C technologies, which has been SOP for what, 20 years at least? We are looking at replacing much of the traditional (outmoded) composite work with reinforced thermoplastics to further lower labor costs. We will not do work for any government agency as it involves way too much red tape and the government is slow in paying its bills.