Envisioned as a spiritual successor to the Manufacturing Knowledge and Education (MAKE) Lab that was previously in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s building 60 in West Bethesda, Maryland, a new makerspace, the Advanced Manufacturing Prototyping (AMP) Lab, has been created in the Model Fabrication Facility, known as Building 9. An open house and ribbon cutting event with Carderock’s Commanding Officer Capt. Todd E. Hutchison was held on June 23.
Scott Ziv, a mechanical engineer in the Additive Manufacturing Program Office, who has been coordinating the MAKE Lab since 2017, joined forces with Ryan Franke, a technician in the Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Branch to bring the AMP Lab to Building 9.
“The AMP Lab is the successor to…
