 The Navy will soon be able to quickly deliver parts and high-tech gears such as customized unmanned systems, avionics components, and improvised explosive device detectors to ships and commands all over the world. Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is coming soon. Personnel from Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic Detachment, Patuxent River, were at the 2016 Sea Air and Space Expo to show how 3D printing will help the fleet. 3D printing gives us the capability to prototype rapid prototype items. It also gives us the ability to design things we wouldn't otherwise be able to. We pick up ideas from the sailors on the ground in our innovation cell, and even at our command just anybody in the command come up with an idea, we look at it, says, that's great. We can come up with 3D printing methods to help them out. 3D printing is coming, and it's going to be big. To find out more about 3D printing, visit navy.mil.