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Announcement, Circular Economy, Funding Opportunity

Announcing 10 new research demonstration, verification and validation (DV&V) projects as part of the Institute’s latest round of funding. These new DV&V projects will demonstrate tools and technologies that are at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 and will reach TRL 7 by the end of their project. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) describe the...

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...

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Manufacturing

When we talk about aerospace in America, we talk about our great past achievements. We talk about the opportunities that lie ahead. We talk about how innovative our industrial base is. What we don’t talk about are the challenges and needs for transforming that innovation into actual production. In the fields of aviation, space, and national...

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Re-manufacturing, Recycling

Manus, The BioAlternatives Company ®, and the University of Texas at Austin say they have completed a BioMADE-sponsored program to make industrial yeast fermentation more efficient and sustainable.

The project, carried out with Hal Alper, PhD, and the Alper Lab in UT Austin’s McKetta department of chemical engineering, engineered yeast to disrupt...

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America 250, Circular Economy, Manufacturing, Re-manufacturing, Recycling, Reuse, Supply Chain

On the evening of July 9, 1776, a crowd in lower Manhattan listened to the Declaration of Independence read aloud by order of General Washington. Then they did something practical. They walked to Bowling Green, threw ropes around the gilded lead equestrian statue of King George III, and pulled it down.

The statue wasn't left in pieces on the...