Retired Air Force Colonel will lead
Divergent's burgeoning aerospace and defense manufacturing
business
LOS
ANGELES, June 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Divergent Technologies, Inc. ("Divergent"), the company
that has invented, developed, and commercialized the world's first
end-to-end digital industrial manufacturing system, announced today
the hire of retired United States Air Force Colonel Nathan P. Diller as the company's inaugural
Chief Strategy Officer for Aerospace and Defense. He most recently
served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives
Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, where he oversaw a
$42 billion annual defense-wide
research, development, and procurement budget. As a Professional
Staff Member, he drafted defense innovation legislation to drive
appropriations flexibility and transparency to accelerate adoption
of emerging technologies. In his final role in the Air Force,
Nathan was the Director of AFWERX and responsible for the strategy
and execution of a $1 billion annual
advanced technology budget for the United States Air Force and
Space Force.
Nathan will scale Divergent's aerospace and defense business, as
well as lead the company's government affairs. In 2023, Divergent
was selected by General Atomics as its strategic manufacturing
partner for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Since then, multiple major
aerospace and defense companies, as well as many startups have
created agreements to leverage this novel advance manufacturing
capability. Within the automotive sector, Divergent has more than
twenty production programs with leading global automotive
manufacturers and has designed, tested, certified, and is now
manufacturing the record-setting 253 mph Czinger 21C production
hypercar for its affiliated automotive company, Czinger
Vehicles.
"With the multitude of security challenges across the globe,
U.S. and allied leaders continue to highlight the need for agile
and scaled manufacturing for a resilient defense industrial base,"
said Diller. "After years of funding thousands of emerging
technology companies, I am convinced that Divergent is uniquely
postured to support DoD, along with companies, and allied nations
of all sizes around the world, in advancing the arsenal of
democracy, all while creating extraordinary peacetime economic and
technical advantage. It is a privilege to join Kevin, Lukas, and
the A+ team they have recruited to deploy a critical dual-use
technology for this existential mission."
During his 22 years in the US Air Force, Nathan served as the
Director of Aeronautics in the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy and commanded a flight test squadron. He was
assigned to DARPA, the Joint Staff J-8, the Air Force Rapid
Capabilities Office, the Strategic Capabilities Office, the Space
and Missile Center, and multiple fighter and flight test squadrons.
Nathan is a member of the DoD Acquisition Corps, a test pilot, and
a fighter pilot with over 2,900 hours in more than 60 aircraft. He
is an alumnus of the Air Force Academy
and French Test Pilot School, with graduate degrees in engineering,
government, and strategy from MIT,
Harvard, National
Defense University, and France's ISAE-SUPAERO.
"We are thrilled to have Nathan join our team," said
Kevin Czinger, Founder, Lead
Inventor and CEO. "As Divergent continues expanding its business in
aerospace and defense, Nathan's rare operational, classified, and
congressional background, along with deep experience in the DoD
requirements, acquisition, and budgeting processes will be a major
asset to our goal of completely transforming the global
manufacturing industry and becoming a pillar for national
security."
Lukas Czinger, President and
Chief Operating Officer added, "Nathan's breadth of experience and
strong leadership will be a key part to accelerating new programs
and products for our aerospace and defense partners."
To date, Divergent Technologies has raised $769 million to develop and deploy its advanced
manufacturing capability, combining digital engineering, additive
manufacturing, known commonly as 3D printing, and automated
assembly. The company's state-of-the-art Divergent Adaptive
Production System (DAPS®) has received more than 500
patents. It replaces slow, inflexible, and capital-intensive
traditional design and production processes, with an agile
end-to-end system for rapid development and manufacturing at
scale.
About Divergent
Divergent has created the world's first end-to-end
software-hardware production system for industrial digital
manufacturing – the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS™) –
allowing customers to design, additively manufacture, and
automatically assemble complex structures for automotive,
aerospace, and defense applications. DAPS transforms the economics
and environmental impact of manufacturing complex structures for
vehicles of all types by optimizing designs, dematerializing
structures, and eliminating upfront capex. For more information,
please visit www.divergent3d.com.
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