Manufacturing USA (MFG USA), previously known as the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, is a network of research institutes in the United States that focuses on developing manufacturing technologies through public-private partnerships among U.S. industry, universities, and federal government agencies. Modeled similar to Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes, the network currently consists of 16 institutes.[1][2][3] The institutes work independently and together on a number of advanced technologies.[4][5]
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"Here's some of the stories trending This Week at NASA!" NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden visited Ames Research Center on March 17 to check out aeronautics and space research facilities at the center -- including the laboratory for the volleyball-sized free-flying satellites called SPHERES. These are used on the International Space Station for experiments in space robotics and spacecraft navigation. He also saw the center's high-fidelity airport control tower simulator, dubbed Future Flight Central, where he was briefed on joint research underway with the Federal Aviation Administration and industry partners on next-generation air traffic management. NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot spoke to the media on March 17 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 -- where two booster stages are being prepared to launch NASA's Orion spacecraft on its first trip into space, later this year. Three boosters in all will power the United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket with Orion on top for its Exploration Flight Test-1. The two-orbits-around-the- Earth test will provide engineers with important data about Orion's heat shield and other elements to improve the spacecraft being designed to carry astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other deep space destinations. Connor Johnson, the six-year-old from Denver, Colorado who started a White House petition drive to save NASA's funding, met with Kennedy Space Center Director and former astronaut Bob Cabana at the KSC Visitor Complex on March 15. Cabana presented him with an autographed picture and a bolt brought back from the International Space Station on his STS-88 shuttle mission, the first space station construction flight. Connor, who wants to become an astronaut, would be old enough to do just that right around the time NASA plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. At NASA headquarters, David W. Miller, began his tenure as the agency's new Chief Technologist. The professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be Administrator Bolden's principal advisor on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs. Miller has worked with several NASA projects, including SPHERES and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission planned for 2016. A new challenge focused on coastal flooding will be included in the third annual International Space Apps Challenge -- a "codeathon"-style event to be hosted April 12 and 13 by NASA and other space agencies around the world. Announced by NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan at the March 19 Climate Data Initiative launch at the White House, The Coastal Inundation in Your Community challenge is one of four climate-related challenges using data provided by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. The challenge encourages entrepreneurs, technologists, and developers to create and deploy data-driven visualizations and simulations to help people understand their exposure to coastal-flooding hazards. The next two crews bound for the International Space Station continued preparing for their missions. At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev conducted a fit check in their Soyuz spacecraft -- they launch in late March. Meanwhile, a news conference was held at Johnson Space Center with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst -- the crew of Expedition 40/41 -- scheduled to launch in late May. And the current crew onboard the orbiting laboratory helped bring space a little closer to viewers of National Geographic's two-hour Live From Space program The show featured details about the science and the mission of the ISS. To celebrate the 24th anniversary of the April 24, 1990 launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have released an infrared image of an active region of star birth, located 64-hundred light years away in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula. The mosaic reveals dense knots of gas and dust silhouetted against glowing gas. Hubble is a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency. Using cameras aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, scientists have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon's north polar region. Constructed from 10-thousand-581 pictures, there's enough detail in the mosaic to see textures and subtle shading of the lunar terrain. The entire image measures nearly 867-billion pixels total. And that's what's up ... This Week at NASA. For more on these and other stories follow us on social media and visit www.nasa.gov/twan.
History
In June 2011, United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recommended that the federal government launch an advanced manufacturing initiative of public-private partnerships to support "academia and industry for applied research on new technologies and design methodologies." The recommendation called for $500 million per year to be appropriated to the Departments of Defense, Commerce and Energy, increasing to $1 billion per year over four years.[6][7]
The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation was proposed in the President's fiscal year 2013 budget and formally unveiled by the administration several weeks later in March 2012. The proposal called for a joint federal effort between the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to create a network of 15 regional institutes, funded by a one-time investment of $1 billion and carried out over a period of 10 years.[1][7][8][9][10] The administration reprogramed $45 million of existing resources from the Departments of Defense, Energy, Commerce and the National Science Foundation through executive action to fund a pilot, proof-of-concept institute for the program.[8][9][11] In May the Department of Defense solicited proposals from consortiums led by nonprofit organizations and universities to establish an additive manufacturing (which includes 3D printing) research institute to serve as the prototype facility.[9][10][12]
In August, 2012 the government announced the winning proposal, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), also known as AmericaMakes led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining and based in Youngstown, Ohio.[8][10] The consortium's members include 40 companies, nine research universities, five community colleges and 11 nonprofit organizations.[10] AmericaMakes was established with an initial federal government investment of $30 million, while the consortium contributed almost $40 million in additional funding.[8] The administration stated that it expected AmericaMakes to become financially self-sustaining.[13] In May 2013, the administration announced the establishment of three additional institutes using $200 million in funding through two federal agencies: the Departments of Defense, and Energy.[12][13][14]
In September 2016, the program adopted the name "Manufacturing USA".[15][16] As of 2020[update], Manufacturing USA consists of sixteen institutes. Nine are managed in part by the Department of Defense. Six are managed in part the Department of Energy. One is managed in part by the Department of Commerce.[3]: 2
Model
According to the original National Network for Manufacturing Innovation proposal, it would consist of up to 45 linked institutes with unique research concentrations to serve as regional manufacturing innovation hubs with spokes that link to project locations as seen represented by the various linked activities across the network.[4][8] Each institute would be independently run by a nonprofit organization and form a public-private partnership designed to leverage existing resources and promote collaboration and co-investment between industry, universities and government agencies.[1][8] The network is designed to address the inconsistency in U.S economic and innovation policy in that federal research and development (R&D) investments and tax incentives are not matched by corresponding incentives to encourage the domestic manufacture of the technologies and products that arise from this R&D.[9] The goal of the institutes is to develop, showcase and reduce risks sufficiently so that commercial companies can commercialize new products and processes for domestic production, as well as to train a manufacturing workforce at all skill levels to enhance domestic manufacturing capabilities.[7][8] Institute activities include connecting proven basic research to additional problem solving that ranges from basic to applied research and demonstration projects that reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies or that solve generic industrial problems, education and training, development of methodologies and practices for supply-chain integration, and engagement with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises.[9]
Critics of Manufacturing USA have argued taxes and burdensome regulations are the most pressing problems facing U.S. manufacturers.[17][18] Supporters counter that the U.S. government has a long history of successful investments in R&D to support innovation in U.S. industry.[17] Others argue that the Manufacturing USA can help alleviate two key market failures that plague industrial innovation, namely that innovators generally do not capture the full economic benefits that their innovations provide and thus achieving the optimal level of R&D investment requires government support, and the so-called "valley of death" problem in which no single business can afford the risk or the cost to invest or where businesses tend not to invest in long-term R&D projects with profits that are far in the future.[18][19] Additionally, supporters argue that the Manufacturing USA will create a more attractive domestic environment for manufacturing, and thus will encourage manufacturers to locate production facilities in the United States.[19]
Institutes
| Institute[3] | Technology[3]: 2 | Established[3] | Location[3]: 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) | Textiles | 2016 | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI/BioFabUSA) | Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering[3]: 65 | 2016 | Manchester, New Hampshire[20] |
| Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) | Robotics | 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics) | Photonic integrated circuits | 2015 | Rochester, New York |
| Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE)[21] | Biomanufacturing | 2020 | St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII) | Smart manufacturing | 2017 | Los Angeles, California |
| Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII)[22] | Cybersecurity | 2020 | San Antonio, Texas |
| Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NextFlex) | Flexible electronics | 2015 | San Jose, California |
| Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) | Composite materials | 2015 | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| LIFT (formerly Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow[23]) | Lightweight materials | 2014 | Detroit, Michigan |
| Manufacturing times Digital (MxD) | Digital manufacturing | 2014 | Chicago, Illinois |
| National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (AmericaMakes) | 3D Printing, additive manufacturing[3]: 30 | 2012 | Youngstown, Ohio |
| National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) | Biopharmaceuticals | 2017 | Newark, Delaware |
| Next Generation Power Electronics Institute (PowerAmerica) | Wide-bandgap semiconductors | 2015 | Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) | Process engineering, modularization[3]: 99 | 2017 | New York, New York |
| Reducing EMbodied-energy And Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) | Remanufacturing[3]: 95 | 2015 | Rochester, New York |
See also
References
- ^ a b c National Science and Technology Council, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (January 2013). National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: A Preliminary Design (PDF). Executive Office of the President of the United States. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 13, 2013.
- ^ Rising to the Challenge. National Academies Press. 2012. doi:10.17226/13386. ISBN 978-0-309-25551-6. PMID 22953359.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Manufacturing USA Highlights Report (PDF) (Report). National Institute of Standards and Technology. December 2020.
- ^ a b "Manufacturing USA third-party assessment report of program design and impact | Deloitte US". Deloitte United States. January 2017. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ^ "Manufacturing USA member institutes and technologies". Manufacturing USA Institutes and Technologies. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ^ United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (June 2011). Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing (PDF). Executive Office of the President of the United States. p. iv. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 20, 2017.
- ^ a b c McCormack, Richard A. (February 28, 2012). "Obama Will Unveil $1-Billion National Manufacturing Innovation Network Initiative Based On Germany's Fraunhofer Institute". Manufacturing & Technology News. Vol. 19, no. 3. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013.
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- ^ a b c d e "From Discovery to Scale-up: About the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation". Advanced Manufacturing Portal. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Sargent, John F. Jr. (August 28, 2012). The Obama Administration's Proposal to Establish a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 30, 2013.
- ^ "$1-Billion National Advanced Manufacturing Network Will Take Off With Or Without Congressional Approval". Manufacturing & Technology News. Vol. 19, no. 4. March 16, 2012. p. 8. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ a b Tonkin, Lea (May 27, 2013). "National Manufacturing Innovation Network Gains Momentum". Manufacturing Pulse. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ a b "Obama Administration Launches Competition for Three New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes" (Press release). White House Office of the Press Secretary. May 9, 2013. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017.
- ^ Palmer, Chris (May 13, 2013). "Obama administration announces manufacturing institutes". NewsBlog. Nature.com.
- ^ "National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Rebrands as Manufacturing USA". IndustryWeek. September 12, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Manufacturing USA: New Brand for National Network for Manufacturing Innovation" (Press release). U.S. Department of Commerce. September 12, 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ^ a b Pisano, Gary (April 30, 2013). "Building a Strong Foundation for American Manufacturing". Forbes. Archived from the original on May 27, 2013.
- ^ a b McCormack, Richard A. (May 31, 2012). "NIST Director Defends $1-Billion Manufacturing Program, But Doesn't Know Where The Money Will Come From". Manufacturing & Technology News. Vol. 19, no. 9. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013.
- ^ a b Hart, David M.; Ezell, Stephen J.; Atkinson, Robert D. (December 2012). Why America Needs A National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (PDF). Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. pp. 8–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 1, 2013.
- ^ Bookman, Todd (2023-11-19). "Dean Kamen's private companies reap millions from the federally funded nonprofit he runs". New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ "U.S. Department of Defense awards $87.5 million to EBRC-led BioMADE establishing the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute" (Press release). Engineering Biology Research Consortium. October 20, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
- ^ "UTSA officially launches Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute" (Press release). University of Texas at San Antonio. November 19, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
- ^ "LIFT Receives $5 Million Department of Defense Grant To Expand "Operation Next" Across the Country" (Press release). LIFT. November 19, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
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