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AFFOA, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, LIFT, MxD
Additive Manufacturing, Automation, COVID-19, Defense, Digital Manufacturing, Fabrics, Robotics
Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Integral to U.S. Pandemic Response

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. in early 2020 and overwhelmed the nation's supply of personal protective equipment, the Defense Department's Manufacturing Innovation Institutes leveraged their public-private partnerships to enable manufacturers to quickly pivot and ramp up production to respond to frontline health care workers' PPE needs...

National Technology Roadmap for Pandemic
BioFabUSA
Biomanufacturing, COVID-19
New National Technology Roadmap for Pandemic Response and Recovery

The manufacturing sector is at the center of a stronger, faster, and more coordinated U.S. response to COVID-19 and future pandemics. The National Technology Roadmap for Pandemic Response and Recovery—the first pandemic roadmap driven by the manufacturing sector—outlines a technology-based action plan for strengthening and accelerating U.S...

MFG USA Rapid Response to COVD-19 Cover
AFFOA, AIM Photonics, America Makes, ARM, BioFabUSA, LIFT, MxD, NextFlex, NIIMBL
COVID-19, Economy, Public Private Partnerships, Workforce
Manufacturing USA Rapid Response to COVID-19 Report

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we live and work. This newly released special report highlights how 9 institutes in the Manufacturing USA network worked with 91+ partners across 24 states and Puerto Rico on 36 manufacturing innovation projects to combat COVID-19.

The institutes convened members from industry, academia, and government to...

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SME
Biomanufacturing
ARMI delivering big dose of reality to scientists creating stand-in organs

Good science does not equate to workable manufacturing. This has been a longstanding truth in tissue engineering, a field that has been in limbo between academic R&D and commercialization for its entire decades-long existence. Now, the U.S. can thank Tom Bollenbach—a Ph.D. in biochemistry who lived that experience for nearly 10 years—for helping to...

Control Global
Biomanufacturing
ARMI sets out to manufacture human organs

Dean Kamen, executive director of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), president of Deka Research & Development Corp., and long-time inventor, entrepreneur and advocate for science, is on a new mission to solve the medical industry’s next big problem.

“Your next job is to create all the baseline engineering necessary to create...

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Lab Grown Ligaments
BioFabUSA
Biomanufacturing
Lab-Grown Ligaments That Restore Normal Human Biomechanics
A torn or damaged anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee is a serious injury suffered across many sports and physical activities. Many surgical repairs for tears of the ACL use a tendon — most commonly the patellar tendon — in place of the ACL (a ligament). This mismatch in tissue types creates a system that is not designed to perform in the...