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Manufacturing USA's 2025 Year-in-Review

Following our milestone ten-year anniversary, 2025 was a year of continued innovation, engagement, and improvement experienced by the advanced manufacturing network and beyond.

Notable highlights from 2025 include:

Advanced Manufacturing Occupation and Competency Framework

In an effort to equip job seekers, employers, and trainers with the...

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Additive Manufacturing
Skuld’s Hybrid Approach Reshapes Manufacturing Timelines

The U.S. government and the Department of Defense (DoD) have undertaken a strategic pivot, shifting their focus from accelerating additive manufacturing (AM) integration in casting to scaling its widespread implementation. This change aims to revolutionize tooling, significantly shorten lead times, and enable the production of complex geometries...

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Additive Manufacturing, Announcement
ASTM International Deepens America Makes Partnership with New Projects, Membership Tier

ASTM International’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence ( AM CoE ) today announced three key milestones advancing the reliability and adoption of additive manufacturing (AM):

Leadership of the Industry Transition Team (ITT) under the America Makes  Quality Test and Inspection Methods Expediency (QTIME) program; The launch of WATCHLIST—a...

Events

Go to RAPID + TCT 2026

RAPID + TCT 2026

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Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
United States

Go to America Makes TRX

America Makes TRX

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Boston, MA
United States

Go to Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2026

Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2026

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New York, NY
United States

Go to Defense Manufacturing Conference 2025

Defense Manufacturing Conference 2025

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Caribe Royale Orlando
Orlando, FL
United States

External News

3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing
$1.3M additive manufacturing defense project seeks participants

The U.S. Department of Defense wants to know how to get the rust out of metals created in the additive manufacturing process. It’s willing to pay $1.3 million for the answer.

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, based in Youngstown, announced Tuesday a new open project call that is being funded by the...

Manufacturing
NATIONAL MANUFACTURING DAY, 2025

From the first mills and forges that built our young Republic to the cutting-edge industries of today, manufacturing has always been the foundation of our prosperity, the strength of our communities, the safeguard of our independence, and the engine of our greatness. This National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the unmatched might of America’s...

Our Network @ Work

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Additive Manufacturing, Institute Spotlight, Workforce
America Makes Continues to Build Its Additive Legacy
Network’s First Institute Is Poised to Help Transform Manufacturing

America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, was the first manufacturing innovation institute in what would become the Manufacturing USA network. Since 2012, America Makes has been a driving force in the advancement of additive manufacturing (AM)...