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Cover of the "Analysis of the Manufacturing USA Occupation and Competency Framework" by NIST
AFFOA, AIM Photonics, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, BioMADE, CESMII, CyManII, EPIXC, IACMI, LIFT, MxD, NextFlex, NIIMBL, PowerAmerica, RAPID, REMADE
Manufacturing, Reports, Workforce
Guide on Manufacturing USA Occupations & Competencies Released

Expanding on the Manufacturing USA Occupation and Competency Framework, this NIST Advanced Manufacturing Series publication describes the most common entry-level occupations in advanced manufacturing across the technology areas associated with the Manufacturing USA network through 2030. It serves as a potential guide for workforce professionals...

Group photo of attendees at the 2026 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting
AFFOA, AIM Photonics, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, BioMADE, CESMII, CyManII, EPIXC, IACMI, LIFT, MxD, NextFlex, NIIMBL, PowerAmerica, RAPID, REMADE
Event, Innovation, Manufacturing, Reshoring
Invented Here and Made Here: The 2026 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting

It takes more than a dedicated group of individuals to reshore advanced manufacturing. It takes a whole network of networks. On May 12–13, 2026, nearly 90 people representing Manufacturing USA’s innovation institutes and partnering federal agencies convened for the 2026 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting. Over the course of 1.5 days of connection...

NASEM Report 2026
AFFOA, AIM Photonics, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, BioMADE, CESMII, CyManII, EPIXC, IACMI, LIFT, MxD, NextFlex, NIIMBL, PowerAmerica, RAPID, REMADE
Innovation, Manufacturing, Workforce
New National Academies’ Study: “A Vision for the Manufacturing USA Program in 2030 and 2035”

A Vision for the Manufacturing USA Program in 2030 and 2035

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its new independent consensus study, developed by a committee of experts, which offers a comprehensive vision for Manufacturing USA’s next decade. The report outlines how the program can continue to catalyze the...

Events

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IMTS 2026

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McCormick Place Convention Center
Chicago, IL
United States

Go to Biomanufacturing for National Security Conference

Biomanufacturing for National Security Conference

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National Harbor, MD
United States

Go to Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology

Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology

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Chicago, IL
United States

Go to International Whey Conference

International Whey Conference

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Chicago, IL
United States

External News

Hoodline Minneapolis
Bioengineering, Biomanufacturing
Maple Grove’s BioMADE Bet Turns Corn Into America’s Next Factory

Maple Grove is getting a very 21st-century kind of factory: one where microbes, corn sugar, and fermentation could help produce plastics, chemicals, aviation materials, and even cement. The ambitious project is designed to tackle a stubborn problem in American manufacturing — plenty of promising biotechnology gets developed in U.S. labs, but not...

AdvancedManufacturing.org
Biomanufacturing
Survey Shows American Support for U.S. Bioindustrial Manufacturing Growth

A new national survey from BioMADE suggests strong, bipartisan backing for growing America’s bioindustrial manufacturing sector, with most respondents saying they want more domestically produced bio-based goods in the supply chain—and expect the federal government to help make it happen.

The findings, released alongside a YouGov-conducted poll of 2...

Our Network @ Work

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BioFabUSA, BioMADE, NIIMBL
America 250, Bioengineering, Biofabrication, Biomanufacturing, Biopharmaceutical
America at 250: From Washington's Field Hospitals to Biomanufacturing

Here's a fact that tends to get lost in the pageantry of the American Revolution: smallpox killed more Continental soldiers than British muskets did. By the time Washington took command at Cambridge in 1775, the disease was already a strategic liability, ravaging the northern campaign into Canada, sweeping through Boston, and hollowing out...