Additive manufacturing (AM) promises to redesign traditional manufacturing by enabling the ultimate in agility for rapid component design changes in commercial products and for fabricating complex integrated parts. By significantly increasing quality and yield of metallic alloy powders, the pace for design, development, and deployment of the most promising AM approaches can be greatly accelerated, resulting in rapid commercialization of these advanced manufacturing methods. By successful completion of a critical suite of processing research tasks that are intended to greatly enhance gas atomized powder quality and the precision and efficiency of powder production, researchers can help promote continued rapid growth of AM. Other powder-based or spray-based advanced manufacturing methods could also benefit from these research outcomes, promoting the next wave of sustainable manufacturing technologies for conventional and advanced materials.

增材制造（AM）承诺通过为商业产品中的快速零件设计更改和制造复杂的集成零件提供最大的敏捷性，从而对传统制造进行重新设计。通过显着提高金属合金粉末的质量和产量，可以大大加快最有希望的增材制造方法的设计，开发和部署的步伐，从而使这些先进的制造方法迅速商业化。通过成功完成一组关键的加工研究任务，这些任务旨在极大地提高气体雾化粉末的质量以及粉末生产的精度和效率，研究人员可以帮助促进AM的持续快速增长。其他基于粉末或基于喷雾的先进制造方法也可以从这些研究成果中受益，