Steve Luckowski, Director of the Technology Transfer, Transition, and Commercial Partnerships office in the Department of War, joins us to discuss the upcoming Industry Patent Holiday and the critical role it will play in accelerating technology development for the warfighter and the Defense Industrial Base.

IACMI-The Composites Institute® announced today that Andrew Maxey joined IACMI on Sept. 1 as its new Executive Vice President (EVP). IACMI is one of 17 Manufacturing USA® institutes created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale public-private collaboration on technology, supply chain and workforce...

Earlier this year, the Office of the Under Secretary of War Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech) issued an Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge to the nation’s Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs), including the ARM Institute. This challenge supports the Department of War (DoW)’s focus on transforming and modernizing...

In this episode, Jeff Winter sits down with three industry leaders, John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds, to explore the convergence of Unified Namespace (UNS) and CESMII’s i3X. Together, they address the shared industry challenge that brought these frameworks together, why they complement rather than compete with one another, and what...

When can a manufacturing company be cyberattacked and not cyberattacked at the same time?

The answer — anytime — is not a paradox like the famous thought experiment about Schrödinger’s cat. Manufacturers belong to supply chains and rely on vendors, many of which have digital connections that can be exploited by hackers. An attack on one company...