Additive Manufacturing of MicrosystEms (AMME)

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative approaches to demonstrate an additive manufacturing (AM) technology with new materials to enable fabrication of complex microsystem geometries. The principal objective of the AMME program is to invent radically new approaches to additively manufacture three-dimensional (3D) non-planar microsystems. The program will develop materials and a new additive manufacturing technology capable of simultaneously printing multiple materials with fine features at high speeds. The goal of the program is to demonstrate a novel functional microsystem that uses the AMME technology to create the mechanical structure and interface between individual microsystem components. Specifically excluded is research and development that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to state-of-the art AM