FedScoop
Education, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Workforce

The Pentagon’s research and engineering directorate is investigating manufacturing challenges that are affecting the defense industrial base and hindering its ability to deploy capabilities aligned with the technology areas that have been deemed most critical to ensuring national security in the years ahead.

Undersecretary of Defense for Research...

Education, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Workforce

NextFlex ® , America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) Manufacturing Institute, today announced the formation of a new Institute Node in Missouri aimed to increase the volume, pace and coordination of FHE development. The new Node joins two previously established Nodes in New York and Massachusetts, demonstrating the momentum in FHE adoption...

Education, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, STEM

The very survival of manufacturing depends on more students becoming workers in STEM -related careers. More specifically, the future needs an increase of students wanting to work in STEM in order to combat the severe outreach and recruitment challenges the manufacturing industry currently faces.

If the manufacturing industry does not address this...

Industry Week
Education, Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Network

It’s no secret that one of the manufacturing sector’s primary challenges is attracting talent to fill critical roles. With an aging workforce and increasing demand for advanced technology skills, it’s vital for manufacturers to interest youth in advanced manufacturing careers.

NextFlex , one of 14 Manufacturing USA Institutes, has a national...