Consider scenario one: American assets overseas are under attack and must quickly mobilize a response, but the necessary aircraft carriers cannot deploy until crew members obtain key parts needed for the mission. A mission that should have begun immediately is delayed indefinitely.Now consider scenario two: immediately following an initial attack, the American response is launched. Aircraft carriers deploy on a moment’s notice because they have the capability to build new parts on the way to their destination.General George S. Patton always said, “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” Even when his men were figuring things out as they went — and things occasionally got a bit messy — there was always a clear advantage to moving forward quickly.Solving the above problem was recently a key subject at RIMPAC, the largest international military maritime training exercise in the world. A biennial naval exercise, RIMPAC sees some 30 ships and 30,000 service members — in coordination with more than two dozen countries — stress test new technology in the context it would operate under in the real world.One of those technologies is 3-D printers. They aren’t new to the world, but ones capable of manufacturing everything from water filtration systems to helicopter parts are new to aircraft carriers.Morgan Bower, hub director for FLEETWERX, the “innovation hub” working to bring this new tech to the U.S. military, said it’s all about connecting small business innovators with an often slow-moving Pentagon bureaucracy.“We try to make it a little easier for technology and money to flow in both directions, to help small businesses and government work together to make development work for everyone,” Bower told The Daily Wire.“FLEETWERX,” according to its website, “Is an innovation hub established in 2023 through a Partnership Intermediary Agreement between DEFENSEWERX (DWX) 501(c)(3) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). FLEETWERX cultivates