News

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...

Lightweight Materials, Materials

IACMI–The Composites Institute® (IACMI), today announced the launch of ‘Make It In America’, a national outreach campaign to raise awareness of careers in advanced manufacturing and help fill the 3.8 million jobs needed by 2030.

Leveraging IACMI’s two workforce development programs, America’s Cutting Edge (ACE) and Metallurgical Engineering Trades...

Materials

IACMI is one of 18 Manufacturing USA Institutes advancing U.S. leadership in advanced manufacturing. Through public-private collaboration, IACMI accelerates innovation and workforce development in composites and advanced materials, in part, by fostering collaboration among manufacturers, academic institutions, national laboratories, and other...

Events

Go to IACMI 2026 Members Meeting

IACMI 2026 Members Meeting

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Embassy Suites Denver Downtown
Denver, CO
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

Manufacturing

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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Leading the Charge in Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Convene, connect, catalyze. Those three simple yet powerful words have become the credo of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation ( IACMI ) over the past 10 years. Since the Department of Energy announced its launch in 2015, IACMI has convened people and...