Rough waters help firm demo ‘expeditionary manufacturing’ aboard warship

HONOLULU—Heavy seas didn’t stop Firestorm Labs from printing “thousands” of unique parts aboard the USS Essex amphibious assault ship on the way to the Rim of the Pacific naval exercise here, the expeditionary manufacturing company announced this week.“We were told it was the roughest water off the California coast in the last five years,” Firestorm CEO Dan Magy told Defense One. The company has an exclusive arrangement with HP, which uses a type of 3D printin