Velo3D has become a participating member of the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP). The company explained that the GIDEP participation will support its existing quality, reliability and supply-chain risk-management processes across its defense manufacturing work.
Membership gives Velo3D access to technical, quality, reliability and supply-chain information shared between the U.S. government and industry. For a metal 3D printing supplier producing parts for defense programs, that information adds another layer to how the company identifies and manages risk in mission-critical components.
What GIDEP membership provides
GIDEP is a cooperative information-sharing program between the U.S. government and industry. Participating organizations get access to critical technical, quality, reliability and supply-chain data. The program is designed to help members spot potential issues early, reduce risk and improve the performance and reliability of products that support government and defense programs.
Velo3D presents its membership as a complement to its existing systems rather than a replacement. “Trust and reliability are essential when producing parts for mission-critical defense applications,” said Arun Jeldi, CEO of Velo3D. “GIDEP gives Velo3D access to critical information shared across government and industry, complementing the quality and risk-management processes that support our defense manufacturing activities.”
Velo3D’s defense manufacturing offering
Velo3D serves U.S. defense manufacturing through two main channels. The first is its Sapphire family of large-format metal additive manufacturing systems. The second is Rapid Production Solutions (RPS), which provides production capacity for complex, mission-critical metal components. The company says GIDEP membership adds a further resource for information sharing and risk management across both.
Its full platform combines Flow print preparation software, the Sapphire printers and the Assure quality control system, all running on its Intelligent Fusion manufacturing process. The Assure system is the part most directly linked to the GIDEP announcement. Velo3D positions it as the in-process quality layer, with GIDEP providing external supply-chain and reliability intelligence.
In its forward-looking statements, Velo3D notes that the benefits of GIDEP participation are not guaranteed. They depend on the company’s ability to satisfy the program’s participation requirements, on demand from defense customers, and on the broader risk factors in its SEC filings.
Sharing Data to Trust 3D Printed Defense Parts
GIDEP is built on a simple idea: when one supplier finds a problem with a part, everyone else should know about it. The program, managed by the Defense Standardization Program Office, gives members access to technical, reliability, obsolescence and nonconformance data on tens of millions of parts. For Velo3D, joining means its defense work now draws on the same shared pool of quality information as the rest of the defense supply chain, alongside its own Assure quality system.
The Pentagon is applying similar thinking to additive manufacturing itself. The Defense Logistics Agency‘s FY2026 budget funds the Joint Additive Manufacturing Acceptability (JAMA) program, which aims to create unified qualification standards across all DoD branches, so a printed part approved by one branch doesn’t have to be approved again from scratch by another. Suppliers are already joining: Applied Rapid Technologies was named a prime contractor under JAMA in March 2026.
America Makes is targeting that duplication in testing. Its $9 million Delta Qual 2.0 program is built on the idea that a small process change shouldn’t mean re-running every physical test. A separate $10.5 million JAQS-SQ call funds the qualification of additive manufacturing suppliers themselves.
Whether through GIDEP, JAMA or Delta Qual, defense additive manufacturing is moving toward shared data and shared standards. The goal is the same in each case: trust a printed part once, and use that trust everywhere.
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