Last week, the Biden administration released yet another policy document related to its overall economic strategy, entitled “United States Government National Standards Strategy for Critical Emerging Technology [CET]”. Essentially, the document, released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a declaration of the US government’s renewed commitment to ensuring that US private capital has as much of a say as possible in dictating the future of global industrial standards.
Notably, the document does not contain the terms “3D printing” or “additive manufacturing (AM)”. However, rather than a sign that the Biden administration has abruptly, inexplicably abandoned the historically unprecedented support it has thus far given to the AM sector, I think the document proves exactly the opposite point. As I will argue, one could reasonably view the…
