NAMI wins Saudi GAMI license for military additive manufacturing of defense components

NAMI, the National Additive Manufacturing and Innovation Company, has received a license from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI) authorizing regulated military manufacturing of additively produced defense components. The joint venture of 3D Systems, Dussur, and Saudi Energy can now qualify and manufacture parts for kingdom defense programs under controlled industrial rules. The approval targets work with international aerospace and defense OEMs that want production closer to deployment while locking materials, print parameters, post-processing, and test methods into approved process chains. CEO Mohammed Swaidan said the license expands NAMI's accessible market and lets the company apply proven capacity to mission-critical defense production.

Saudi Vision 2030 aims to source more than half of military spending domestically by 2030, so a licensed local AM facility is industrial policy infrastructure as much as a vendor win. For safety-critical parts, a digital data set alone is not enough: buyers need traceable powder batches, documented machine states, and both destructive and non-destructive testing-especially for complex geometries, small batches, and long-lead spare parts. 3D Systems President and CEO Dr. Jeffrey Graves framed the GAMI license as strengthening the joint venture's ability to help defense OEMs localize supply chains in the kingdom while reinforcing the parent's aerospace and defense position. NAMI also serves oil and gas and energy generation, where digitally stored spare-part models can cut inventory and downtime when logistics are interrupted.

Whether the license becomes revenue depends on certified processes, part-level approvals, and permanently utilized capacity rather than market access alone. Defense primes will treat NAMI as a production node only after specific components embed qualified parameters into program documentation. Until then, the GAMI permit is eligibility for regulated work, not proof of serial military output.