Miles Jamison
Divergent Technologies, a company specializing in digital manufacturing and software-defined production, has partnered with RTX business Raytheon to utilize the Divergent Adaptive Production System, or DAPS, to redesign long-serving naval systems to meet emerging threats.
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Re-engineering Naval Systems Through Digital Manufacturing
Divergent said Wednesday the partnership leverages digital manufacturing to advance programs that prioritize scalable and efficient production. Through this platform-based production approach, the two companies reimagine designs, integrate components and simplify assemblies to maintain mission-critical platforms. It also allows them to scale the production of aerospace-grade assemblies without dedicated tooling or legacy supply chains.
The collaboration was responsible for modernizing a legacy Raytheon effector by consolidating the airframe’s component count and simplifying the structure to reduce the effector’s total part count by 80 percent. It also managed to reconfigure a legacy design for scalable production within five months, without the original tooling and infrastructure.
Remarks From Divergent & Raytheon Executives
“In a matter of months, we transformed a legacy blueprint into an optimized, digital-first design that was then manufactured as flight-ready hardware using a next generation, software-defined manufacturing process,” said Lukas Czinger, co-founder and CEO of Divergent.
“Divergent’s innovative digital manufacturing approach has compressed a multi-year development cycle into just a few months, which is a crucial advantage as our customers face rapidly evolving threats,” stated Barbara Borgonovi, president of naval power at Raytheon.
