$7.8 million 24-month initiative to support development of in-situ quality assurance capabilities for the F3300™ and F900® platforms

Program focuses on advancing manufacturing capabilities for the expansion of additive production capacity

Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ:SSYS) today announced it has been awarded $7.8 million of funding through The 2026 America Makes and the Department of War (DoW) Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge that focuses on advancing additive manufacturing and related technologies to support defense manufacturing modernization. The 24-month award will support development of on-site quality assurance capabilities for Stratasys’ F3300™ and F900® industrial FDM® platforms. This will enable manufacturers to generate the real-time process data needed to scale additive manufacturing production, expand capacity and reduce reliance on costly post-build inspection and qualification.

America Makes, the nation’s leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, brings together industry, government and academia to accelerate the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies that strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and defense readiness. Through the 2026 OIB Modernization Challenge, America Makes is supporting projects that advance manufacturing capabilities critical to industrial production, resilient supply chains and the defense industrial base.