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Additive manufacturing (AM) offers significant advantages over more traditional types of manufacturing technologies, including a smaller facility footprint, reduced energy and resource needs, and increased output capacity in less time. These characteristics of AM are revolutionizing production, maintenance, and a whole host of other activities in the defense-industrial base. Unfortunately, they can also provide a strategic advantage to groups that traditionally have not had access to the large-scale production capacity and other resources needed to produce weapons for waging war, engage in terrorism, and sustain insurgency activities. This webinar will introduce some of the challenges to security that AM poses, especially regarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, and will hopefully start a conversation on how to address some of these emerging challenges.