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 that enables fabrication of complex microsystem geometries. The principal objective of the AMME program is to invent radically new approaches to additively manufacture 3D non-planar microsystems.

The program will develop materials and a new additive manufacturing technology capable of simultaneously printing multiple materials at high-resolutions and very-high throughputs. The end 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 techniques.