LIFT, the Department of War-supported national advanced materials and manufacturing innovation institute, officially launched a new cohort of Operation Next® students at its Corktown headquarters in partnership with Detroit at Work. The program aims to strengthen the local southeast Michigan industrial and broader defense industrial base by...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorates for Engineering and for Biological Sciences have partnered with BioMADE, which is funded by the U.S. Department of War, to co-fund seven integrated projects that will advance the manufacturing of innovative bio-based products using state-of-the-art methodologies.

NSF and BioMADE have complementary...

For centuries, advanced alloys have been produced using the same fundamental approach – melting metals together and carefully controlling how they cool and solidify.

Believing that this age-old method has reached its practical limits, Foundation Alloy has developed a solid-state metallurgy platform capable of engineering alloys without ever melting...

or additive manufacturing companies — including startups, established manufacturers, suppliers, service bureaus, research labs, universities — government funding can be a powerful route to de-risk R&D, build strategic partnerships, and move promising technologies closer to production. The notable uptick in announced DoD-backed project-call funding...

A team of students from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) have won first place in the third annual AM in Steel competition at RAPID + TCT 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts. AM in Steel is organized and sponsored by America Makes, a public-private partnership that focuses on advancing additive manufacturing (AM) in the educational sphere. The...