Rock Island Arsenal’s Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center takes a big step forward in producing Army readiness. Today was a ribbon cutting ceremony for the “Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence”, a new venture that will produce specialized parts through Additive Manufacturing, or 3D printing.
Eventually, this will be a hub of machines and highly trained technicians producing one-off parts for warfighters throughout the world, getting those parts to where they’re needed in days rather than weeks or months.
This center has been several years in the making, and shows how the Rock Island Arsenal has been, and continues to, support the Army and Joint Forces around the world. Eventually, the hope is that machines...
The Rock Island Arsenal Equal Opportunity Office is sponsoring 17 interns from the MCRP which recruits students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU), and Minority Institutions (MI) to work for the government in a 15- week internship.
College students and recent graduates work alongside Soldiers and Department of the Army employees Jan. 14...
