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Unleashing Innovation at the 2025 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting

Each year, the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing enjoys the unique privilege of convening the Manufacturing USA network for its annual meeting. The 2025 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting was an energizing gathering of over 80 representatives from the program’s 18 manufacturing innovation institutes and supporting federal agencies. Over a day...

External News

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The Business Journal
Submission Deadline for $1.1M Project Call Extended

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining have extended the deadline for an open project call worth a total of $1.1 million.

Funded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Manufacturing Technology Office, the project call, Allied Additive Manufacturing Interoperability...

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)...

Opportunities

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Additive Manufacturing, Funding Opportunity
High Priority Open Topics for Additive Manufacturing

This project call reflects a focused, collaborative effort led by the America Makes Roadmap Advisory Group (RMAG) and its five working groups: Design, Process, Material, Value Chain, and AM Genome. These groups met over two months to generate and prioritize project topics, which were then shared with the Department of Defense’s Joint Additive...