FREMONT, CA, USA, Nov 4, 2026 – Velo3D, Inc. (Nasdaq: VELO) announced that it has entered into a five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Sandia National Laboratories. The agreement was signed January 13, 2026, and establishes a framework for Velo3D and Sandia to explore joint research in metal additive manufacturing relevant to the defense industrial base and energy infrastructure.

The CRADA is an umbrella agreement. It sets the terms under which the two organizations may work together, and individual projects are scoped separately under Project Task Statements. Areas the parties intend to explore include part reliability, repeatability across machines and sites, materials development, and workforce development and technology transfer.

“Sandia has decades of experience answering some of the nation’s most challenging problems, with a diverse set of capabilities and areas of expertise,” said Arun Jeldi, Chief Executive Officer of Velo3D. “Metal additive manufacturing research, in combination with Sandia’s other capabilities, offers a tremendous opportunity to advance the state of the technology, and working with its team gives us a rigorous research partner on the questions that matter most to programs moving parts into production at scale. This agreement is a starting point.”

A central question for the industry is whether a part made on one machine can be made the same way on the next. Velo3D’s Golden Print File methodology is designed to reproduce the same build from one Sapphire® system to another. Velo3D expects to share findings from the collaboration as the work progresses.

About Velo3D

Velo3D designs and builds metal additive manufacturing systems and production services in the United States for the defense, aerospace and energy industries. Its Sapphire printers, Flow print preparation software and Assure quality assurance software are designed to produce complex metal parts repeatably across machines and sites. For more information, visit https://www.velo3d.com.