The US Department of War is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop methods to rapidly and accurately characterize how new materials or manufacturing methods will perform outdoors anywhere in the world. The overall goal is to enable the proactive planning of corrosion mitigation practices and quickly characterize the improvement in corrosion performance through the introduction of AM materials.

Key objectives include:

  • Characterize how specific classes of AM materials will corrode in the natural environment and correlate that to commonly used wrought alloys for comparison against historical data
  • Develop an environmental severity index (ESI model) capable of predicting corrosion risk anywhere in the world, eliminating the need to deploy samples for assessing environmental risk
  • Produce a lab-based accelerated corrosion test method that accurately mimics field damage modes to rapidly assess the corrosion resistance of new advanced manufactured materials

If you feel your organization has the technical capabilities and would like to be considered for this project, please complete the form below and upload your organization’s technical capabilities statement.

Interested Submissions Due by 7/8/26.

We encourage participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs), including Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s Business Enterprises (WBEs).

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