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...
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)...
