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NSWC Crane opens advanced repair center, forging new era of fleet readiness
July 16, 2026 — CRANE, Ind. – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) opened a facility to repair advanced metals and provide fleet readiness. The new Metal Additive Manufacturing (MADMAN) Repair Center uses advanced low-pressure and high-pressure cold spray technology to extend the life of vital naval assets. NSWC Crane held the ribbon cutting ceremony onsite on June 23...

TRFB's first cold spray success
April 8, 2024 — Welding, electroplating, and epoxy repairs are all effective and proven methods used in-house at Trident Refit Facility, Bangor (TRFB) to incrementally repair and overhaul some of the U.S. Navy’s ballistic missile submarines. The use of these methods have been proven to be effective, and are all accomplished while under stringent maintenance schedules, providing the U.S. with resilient and well-maintained submarines. But what happens when these methods are not ideal to use during a repair process? A group of forward-thinking individuals at TRFB banded together to establish an effective, new procedure to add to TRFB’s ever-growing tool belt: An internal cold spray process...

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