Supply-chain disruptions continue pushing manufacturers toward qualified spares, tooling, bridge production, and digital inventory.

• 01The White House — FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Celebrates Launch of AM Forward and Calls on Congress to Pass Bipartisan Innovation Act2022-05-06

  Official launch of AM Forward, a voluntary compact in which GE Aviation, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Siemens Energy commit to buy additively produced parts from smaller US suppliers. Frames AM adoption as a response to brittle supply chains, backlogs, and bottlenecks; cites printing spare parts one at a time as needed, Honeywell manufacturing-tooling RFQs, and Lockheed Martin's use of AM as an alternative to castings and forgings. Supports the supply-chain-resilience driver and the spares/tooling portions of this event. Archived Biden-era White House URL (the original whitehouse.gov path moved to the archive in January 2025).

• 02White House Council of Economic Advisers — Using Additive Manufacturing to Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Bolster Small and Mid-Size Firms2022-05-09

  CEA analysis stating that AM lets firms respond quickly to supply disruptions without holding costly parts inventory (stocking powder and printing parts on demand within hours or days) and relieves forging/casting lead-time bottlenecks that had delayed aerospace parts by up to a year. Supports the disruption-response and reduced-inventory (digital inventory) portions of this event.

• 03SME Manufacturing Engineering — Uncle Sam Picks 3D Printing to Boost U.S. Manufacturing2022-08-15

  SME trade coverage of AM Forward: participants focus on low-volume, high-mix printed parts that would otherwise face bottlenecks from long mold and tooling lead times, and the program's ASTRO America lead describes it as OEM investment in suppliers to provide supply-chain resilience. Corroborates the tooling and low-volume (bridge-style) production rationale.

• 04CONTEXT
• 053D Printing Industry

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AM Roadmap. (2022). Supply-chain disruptions continue pushing manufacturers toward qualified spares, tooling, bridge production, and digital inventory.. AM Roadmap (v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed). Retrieved 2026-08-24, from https://amroadmap.com/timeline/past-2022-supply-chain-5

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@misc{amroadmap_supply_chain_disruptions_continue_pushin_2022,
  title  = {Supply-chain disruptions continue pushing manufacturers toward qualified spares, tooling, bridge production, and digital inventory.},
  author = {{AM Roadmap}},
  year   = {2022},
  url    = {https://amroadmap.com/timeline/past-2022-supply-chain-5},
  note   = {AM Roadmap dataset v0.5.2-evidence-gaps-closed, accessed 2026-08-24}
}

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