Building Momentum, LLC.
US Marines Training with Building Momentum
The U.S. Marine Corps have deployed LulzBot 3D printers with the help of Building Momentum, a veteran-owned firm in Alexandria, VA, which provides consulting to various industries such as science, engineering and technology.
CEO and Founder Brad Halsey, said “We’re the people who go to strange places and do MacGyver-like things, and we do a lot of training for that with the U.S. Marine Corps, and all of our training is extremely immersive.''
Halsey himself utilised his command of 3D printing during his deployment in Iraq, problem solving under high pressure conditions. Since 2015, Building Momentum has provided intensive instruction in fields such as mobile lab design, 3D printing in combat and CAD software with innovators around the world.
During training, users face challenges under pressure where they have to solve team-oriented problems requiring a combination of emerging technology and creativity. Proposed applications in the field include buckles, handles, camera mounts, and other things that have a tendency to break can be designed and printed in a matter of hours.
Halsey recently returned from Kuwait where his team supplied Marines with LulzBot TAZ 6 3D printers and provided training on deconstruction and reassembly.
He said: "The TAZ 6s that we have in Kuwait, we teach them how to tear them down and build them back up,” Halsey said. “Having the ability to remake the parts is actually pretty useful, and that’s one of the reasons we like the TAZ over other printers."
Building Momentum will soon open their own community driven, co-working makerspace in Washington DC. where people can come to get training in the field, which is a great opportunity for small businesses and educators to learn, and use this in their own business.
