Industry plays a critical role in delivering mission-critical capabilities to the warfighter, safeguarding global stability, economic prosperity, and the security of the United States and its allies. However, manufacturing bottlenecks, technology gaps, and workforce challenges threaten throughput and timely delivery for the Department of War (DoW)...
In celebration of National Composites Week 2026 this week, this episode of CW Talks features host Scott Francis, editor-in-chief of CompositesWorld , in conversation with Jason Gibson, chief commercialization officer at the IACMI – The Composites Institute . Gibson discusses this year’s National Composites Week theme, “Composites Built to Scale,”...
As AI companies pack data centers with hundreds of thousands of processors, the copper wiring that has moved data between them for decades is running out of capacity and burning too much power to keep up.
The fix the industry has settled on is optical: replacing electrical connections with fiber and, increasingly, optics built directly onto the...
Wars in both Ukraine and Iran have demonstrated a new factor in 21 st century warfare: low cost drones. The ability of modern low-cost UAVs to saturate modern air defense systems, and absorb large quantities of very expensive defensive missiles, has put a premium on mass production of weapons for future preparedness.
In an effort to kick start this...
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has joined the Nuclear Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Precast — known as NuCAMP — an initiative focused on advancing new manufacturing and construction methods for nuclear applications and developing vocational training to support the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors. NuCAMP takes a holistic...
Join Keith Fritz, Director of Federal Solutions at QuesTek Innovations LLC, exploring how Integrated Computational Materials Design (ICMD®) is accelerating the development of next-generation materials for defense manufacturing. Discover how QuesTek's Materials by Design® methodology and proprietary ICMD® platform enable faster alloy development...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) are proud to announce the winner of a recent project call worth $5.5M in funding.
Generation Of Technical-data for High-strength Aluminum Alloy Material (GOTHAAM) is funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech)...
“Manufacturing has reached an inflection point. We have enormous ambitions for smart manufacturing and industrial AI as a nation, but those ambitions will not be realized at scale if our data remains trapped in proprietary...
SME Chief Manufacturing Officer Dr. Brett Conner has been appointed to a two-year term on the Executive Committee of America Makes, the nation's leading public-private partnership for additive manufacturing (AM). In this role, he will help shape initiatives that advance additive manufacturing adoption, workforce development and manufacturing...
J oin Keith Fritz, Director of Federal Solutions at QuesTek Innovations LLC, exploring how Integrated Computational Materials Design (ICMD®) is accelerating the development of next-generation materials for defense manufacturing. Discover how QuesTek's Materials by Design® methodology and proprietary ICMD® platform enable faster alloy development...
The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-17-3-0004, and part of the Manufacturing USA® network.
The ARM Institute has developed the RoboticsCareer.org platform which provides an online, scalable approach to...
It’s been one month since CNBC ranked Ohio No. 1 in the country in its Top States For Business study, and Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel want to make sure those in the Buckeye State know all about it.
“This truly is our time,” DeWine said during a panel event at America Makes on Monday. “We have more jobs filled in Ohio than at any time...
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL) is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Collins has recently joined the Institute as a NIIMBL Senior Fellow. Paul will lead the NIIMBL-led Process Intensification (PI) Program.
“We are very excited to have Paul’s experience and enthusiastic leadership of the PI Program...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) are proud to announce the winner of a recent project call worth $5.5M in funding.
Generation Of Technical-data for High-strength Aluminum Alloy Material (GOTHAAM) is funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech)...
North Carolina State University has been chosen to lead a 10-year Department of War initiative aimed at modernizing textile manufacturing in the United States to support the defense industry.
The FutureTEX award – which includes $36 million in its first year and has a ceiling of $480 million over a decade – brings together industry, government...
