ST-01 / Describe
Describe
Say what the part has to do, where it lives, and what it bolts to. No CAD, no drawings, no supplier RFQ.
“I need a custom bracket for a drone.”
AI-powered manufacturing
Generative Optimized Virtual Fabrication
From digital ideas to physical reality — powered by AI. Describe what you need in plain language. GovFab designs it, proves it out against your requirements, and builds it through a secure, fully audited production network.
- Iteration
- 000 / 104
- Mass fraction
- 100.0 %
- Compliance
- 1.000 J
Fabrication reach
Additive metal
5-axis CNC
Fiber laser
PCB
Injection molding
Robotic assembly
How GovFab works
Four stations between a sentence and a shipped part.
Every job travels the same controlled route, and every station leaves a record. You stay in plain language the whole way; the platform handles geometry, analysis, qualification, and production.
ST-02 / Generate
Generate
The engine produces manufacturable candidates — not one answer, but a set that trades mass against strength against schedule.
- Candidates 3–12
- Constraints Applied
- Output Solid + mesh
ST-03 / Validate
Validate
Nothing reaches a machine unproven. Each candidate is analyzed, qualified against the spec, and checked for manufacturability.
- Strength FEA
- Materials Certified
- Method Qualified
- Schedule Committed
ST-04 / Fabricate
Fabricate
The approved design is released to an accredited facility, produced, inspected, and delivered with its full documentation package.
- Toolpaths Released
- Inspection FAI / CMM
- Chain of custody Logged
Why GovFab
Manufacturing that answers back.
AI-NATIVE
Manufacturing starts with a conversation
Traditional production begins with a CAD seat, a drawing package, and a purchasing cycle. GovFab begins with a sentence. The design software, the analysis, and the supplier search all sit behind the conversation instead of in front of it.
RAPID
Weeks of engineering, compressed into hours
Generation, structural validation, process selection, and qualification run concurrently rather than as sequential handoffs between people. First-article parts move from requirement to released toolpath in a single working day.
SECURED
Every action is authenticated, scoped, and auditable
Projects are access-controlled to named personnel. Every generation, revision, approval, and release is written to an immutable log, so a program office can reconstruct exactly who changed what and which facility built it — years after delivery.
DOMESTIC
Critical components, built close to home
Production is routed to vetted domestic capacity by default. Organizations that cannot accept offshore dependency for a spare part, a fixture, or a fielded repair get a supply chain that stays inside the border.
ANY QTY
One-off prototypes and production runs, same route
A single replacement bushing and a ten-thousand-unit housing enter through the same interface. The platform changes the process and the tooling strategy underneath; you do not change how you ask.
The AI design engine
Watch a requirement become a qualified design.
A session from prompt to release. Nothing here needs a CAD license — and nothing reaches a machine without a signed-off dossier behind it.
You
GovFab engine
- Reading requirements and service environment
- Generating candidate geometry
- Running structural and thermal analysis
- Matching certified materials and sealing class
- Routing to accredited domestic capacity
Three enclosures meet IP67 or better at −40 °C to 85 °C with a 2 mm gasket land and M3 board standoffs. Select one to review its qualification dossier.
Illustrative session. Figures shown are representative of typical low-volume work.
Government & enterprise
Manufacturing solutions for mission-critical needs.
When a part is out of production, out of stock, or eight weeks out, the mission does not wait. GovFab is built for the work that cannot be back-ordered.
01 / Sustainment
Replacement parts for legacy equipment
Reproduce components whose original supplier, tooling, or drawing package no longer exists — from a measured sample or a description of the failure.
02 / Development
Rapid prototyping
Move through design iterations in days. Every revision keeps its analysis, cost, and inspection history attached.
03 / Shop floor
Custom tools and fixtures
Jigs, gauges, mounts, and test fixtures built to your equipment rather than adapted from a catalog.
04 / Forward
Field repair components
Push a validated design to the capability nearest the point of need, including deployed and expeditionary production cells.
05 / Controls
Secure manufacturing
Designed for controlled-information workflows: access-scoped projects, audit trails on every revision, and routing restricted to cleared domestic capacity.
06 / Resilience
Supply chain resilience
Convert single-source risk into a digital inventory that can be produced at multiple qualified sites on demand.
Security & assurance
Built for programs that get audited.
Design data is among the most sensitive material an organization holds. GovFab treats it that way: controlled from the moment it is described, and accountable from the moment it is built.
The platform is architected around controlled-unclassified-information handling, least-privilege access, and an append-only record of every action taken against a design. Production is routed only to facilities that hold the accreditations a given program requires — and never outside the boundary you set.
Controlled dataArchitected to NIST SP 800-171 practices for CUI, with CMMC Level 2 readiness
Export controlITAR- and EAR-aware project scoping, personnel gating, and routing
AccessSSO, MFA, and role-scoped projects down to the individual revision
AuditAppend-only log of every generation, approval, and release
TraceabilityMaterial certification, FAI, and inspection records held per lot
SovereigntyDomestic-only production routing enforced at the project level
EncryptionDesign data encrypted in transit and at rest, keys segregated per tenant
ContinuityDigital inventory reproducible at multiple accredited facilities
Accreditation status and third-party assessment reports are provided under NDA during program qualification.
Where this goes
The future of manufacturing is on demand.
Physical goods become as addressable as software: generated when needed, produced where it makes sense, and sourced from whoever builds it best.
- Generate
- Create a manufacturable product from a requirement
- License
- Acquire a qualified design with its full data package
- Produce
- Release any design to accredited manufacturing
- Publish
- Offer your own qualified designs under controlled terms
- Reach
- Draw on a vetted global manufacturing network
Distributed production network
Job routing · live
Fabrication reach
One interface. Every process the part might need.
The engine picks the process from the requirement, not from what a single shop happens to own.
| Process | Representative materials | Typical tolerance | First article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Additive — metal | Ti-6Al-4V, 316L, AlSi10Mg, Inconel 718 | ±0.10 mm | 5–10 days |
| Additive — polymer | PA12, PA12-CF, Ultem 9085, PEEK | ±0.15 mm | 2–5 days |
| CNC machining | 6061-T6, 7075-T6, 304/316, brass, Delrin | ±0.025 mm | 4–9 days |
| Laser & waterjet | Sheet steel, aluminum, titanium, composite | ±0.10 mm | 2–4 days |
| PCB fabrication | FR-4, Rogers, flex and rigid-flex stackups | 3/3 mil trace | 3–7 days |
| Injection molding | ABS, PC, PP, glass-filled nylon, TPU | ±0.05 mm | 15–25 days |
| Robotic assembly | Multi-part builds, fastening, potting, test | Per spec | Program-based |
Describe the part. We will build it.
Start with one component you cannot source, or bring a program and we will scope it with you.