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Miami, Florida, USA — June 23, 2026 — 3YOURMIND and Phillips Corporation Federal Division today announced their participation in the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)’s distributed manufacturing experiment at the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) international military exercise taking place around the Hawaiian Islands from June 24 to July 31st. 3YOURMIND and Phillips Corporation’s participation aims to synergize and streamline workload across a distributed joint-force advanced manufacturing network. Through the NPS Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education (CAMRE) and its Partnership Intermediary FLEETWERX, the 3YOURMIND and Phillips Corporation efforts will validate a "C2 - command control" system for production orchestration to support the U.S. Department of War’s vision of delivering critical parts at the point of need.
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NPS drives defense-focused applied research to solve complex operational challenges, such as the adoption of advanced manufacturing in the fleet.
"We're moving advanced manufacturing out of the lab and into the fleet. But to operationalize that during a massive exercise like RIMPAC, we needed absolute command and control over the digital supply chain. It’s about ensuring the right unit gets the right file at the exact right time, so they can print what they need to stay in the fight,” said Chris Curran, CAMRE Program Manager.
The initiative, organized under the CAMRE distributed manufacturing project, utilizes the 3YOURMIND commercial-off-the-shelf solution to provide the digital thread necessary for military readiness. By positioning 3YOURMIND's full suite of software capabilities, including part identification, order management, and production planning, the team aims to fulfill the military’s request to develop "the Uber for manufacturing capabilities delivered at the speed of Amazon."
Delivering on that mandate for speed requires use of Partnership Intermediaries like FLEETWERX. Serving as a critical innovation hub, FLEETWERX leverages rapid prototyping and testing frameworks to give the warfighter access to tomorrow’s technologies today.
"Getting the right part to the right place at the right time remains one of the military's most persistent challenges," said Morgan Bower, Director, FLEETWERX. "RIMPAC allows us to evaluate technologies that help identify requirements, connect them to manufacturing resources and accelerate delivery to operators, providing valuable insight into the future of military sustainment."
A Proven Digital Thread for Global Readiness
Photo: 3YOURMIND's solutions support efforts to digitize equipment, ensuring units’ operability without a network connection.
The events organized by the Naval Postgraduate School serve as research experiments whose findings will inform whether future investment in distributed manufacturing capabilities is necessary and/or viable. The project acknowledges that the government cannot operationalize advanced manufacturing without a robust digital thread to manage fragmented assets and personnel. The primary goal of these digital workstreams is to decrease response time for readiness, increase capacity for lethal capabilities, and enable rapid iteration of weapon systems. The 3YOURMIND system is intended to serve as a command-and-control system for orchestrating production requests and shipping tasking.
"Establishing a digitized manufacturing network is fundamentally an enterprise problem concerning fragmented people and assets," says William Cuervo, President of 3YOURMIND’s North American operations. "The strategy involves addressing this enterprise problem and tailoring the solution for military requirements."
In addition to software, Phillips Corporation will deliver containerized hybrid advanced manufacturing technology–including milling and 3D printing–afloat on the USS ESSEX during the exercise.
“This partnership aligns part production with the optimal manufacturing solution,” said retired USMC Colonel Patrick Tucker, Strategic Business Development Manager at Phillips Corporation. “By coupling a unique part assessment tool with a common operational picture and a manufacturing tool, we are streamlining readiness at sea. We are pleased to employ our partnership in this real-world scenario,” Tucker added. “This exercise will show us how to best enable distributed manufacturing for the joint force.”
In addition to RIMPAC, 3YOURMIND and Phillips Corps. participated in two preliminary technical exchanges: Joint Inter-agency Field Experimentation (JIFX) at Camp Roberts in Monterey, California, and Valiant Shield in Okinawa, Japan, in May and June, respectively. The preliminary efforts follow a “crawl, walk, run” approach to validate technical compatibility and real-world feasibility at RIMPAC.
3YOURMIND personnel will be on-site in Hawaii and available for interviews during RIMPAC from July 6-16.
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Devin Culham
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3YOURMIND
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About 3YOURMIND
3YOURMIND is a solution provider with a mission to strengthen sustainment readiness by turning technical data into controlled, reusable digital assets. We do this by standardizing how parts are identified, qualified, published, and fulfilled across distributed production environments. We focus on secure governance, qualification discipline, and traceable execution so organizations can respond faster to part needs without sacrificing control or accountability.
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About FLEETWERX
FLEETWERX serves as a Partnership Intermediary Agreement that connects the Naval Postgraduate School, operational military units, industry and academia to accelerate the testing, refinement and transition of technologies into real-world military use. Through field experimentation, operational demonstrations and ecosystem development, FLEETWERX helps bridge the gap between innovation and mission execution. Learn more at www.fleetwerx.org
About the Naval Postgraduate School
Established in 1909, the Naval Postgraduate School is a Naval command with a graduate university mission offering master’s and doctoral degrees in fields of study core to Naval-unique needs, the U.S. Armed Forces, DOD civilians, and international partners. Read more about our Mission.
About Phillips Corporation
For more than 60 years, the federal government, private sector industry, and education leaders have trusted the experts at Phillips Corporation to solve their greatest manufacturing challenges. Our mission is to create legendary value for the manufacturing community by unlocking solutions to propel capabilities, profitability, and productivity. Phillips represents a robust combination of equipment, applications expertise, and services that are well-suited to meet the growing range of present and future manufacturing applications requirements. Learn more at phillipscorp.com/federal.
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