The chicoms will have it shortly after it is successful.
According to the Wiki article, “Cold spraying was developed in the 1990. While experimenting with the particle erosion of the target, which was exposed to a two-phase high-velocity flow of fine powder in a wind tunnel, scientists observed accidental rapid formation of coatings. This coating technique was commercialized in the 1990s.”
So the tech has been around commercially for almost 25 years. The article in this post is quite vague about what ARL is having Rowan University do.
Has anybody heard of Rowan before? That’s a new one for me.