Manufacturers are navigating a growing challenge: fragmented, proprietary APIs across platforms, historians, and applications are creating integration complexity that slows innovation. The Industrial Information Interoperability eXchange (i3X™) is emerging as a solution—an open, vendor-agnostic API designed to standardize how applications interact...
Global supply chains are under sustained strain, characterized by extended lead times, rising costs, and limited flexibility in the event of disruptions. For the defense and energy sectors, where reliability and responsiveness are mission-critical, those pressures create real operational risk. Equipment downtime, delayed repairs, and constrained...
The ARM Institute Champion program recognizes ARM Institute Members who have gone above and beyond the call of membership to strengthen US manufacturing through robotics, physical AI, and workforce development while advocating for the ARM Institute’s mission! ARM Champions are recognized annually at a celebratory dinner during our Annual Member...
OSD ManTech is interested in transitioning state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing into existing OIB manufacturing lines through pilot line development. In addition to technology development, the desired objectives include an action plan for integration into an OIB site and the identification of Department of War Key Performance Indicators (KPI)...
Empire State Development today announced a $2.36 million investment in six technology research projects that will increase the reuse, retreading, and recycling of end-of-life tires generated in New York State. ESD’s investment includes $1.4 million in state funding through the NYS Waste Tire Program, which is managed by the REMADE Institute®...
As we look ahead to the rest of 2026, hybrid electronics is rapidly evolving from an emerging technology to a critical capability. Across the Department of Defense and commercial markets alike, the ability to integrate electronics into flexible, lightweight, and conformal form factors is enabling systems that were previously difficult — or...
MxD has published its Outlook 2026-2028 report (formerly the Strategic Investment Plan), which assesses the current state of U.S. manufacturing and outlines MxD’s plans for modernizing and securing the U.S. industrial base in the coming years.
The Outlook was developed in collaboration with MxD’s member organizations, which include manufacturers...
The Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) and IACMI are pleased to share a space at Cherokee Farms in Knoxville, Tenn., as a launchpad for composites innovation and commercialization. The integrated facility at Innovation South brings together advanced manufacturing equipment that spans...
Near the end of a successful cybersecurity for critical infrastructure training event in Corpus Christi, Texas, last week, the Cybersecurity Manufacturing and Innovation Institute (CyManII) welcomed Vice Admiral Timothy James “TJ” White USN (Ret.), Chief of the Texas Cyber Command (TXCC), to speak to attendees about the need for a collective...
San Antonio was the focal point for the future of the American manufacturing industry when the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII) hosted a national Town Hall centered on the development of the next National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing.
Held at CyManII’s C4M facility at Port San Antonio, the event brought...
2025 was a year of remarkable progress for the domestic bioindustrial manufacturing industry. New commercial and defense products, impactful federal policy, and key infrastructure investments combined to propel the bioeconomy forward. BioMADE is honored to work with you, our nationwide network of 300+ companies, start-ups, universities, community...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) are proud to announce the winners of a recent project call awarded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech), worth a total of $1.3M. The project call, Corrosion of Additive – Tested At Component Scale...
In collaboration with ARM Member Catalyst Connection and through the ARM Institute’s Robotics Manufacturing Hub, we recently hosted a free, hybrid workshop exploring robotic machine tending for manufacturers. Hundreds of manufacturers both from the Pittsburgh region and from across the nation joined us to learn how the use of robotics in machine...
We often say that Manufacturing USA helps bridge the “valley of death” between innovation and commercialization, supporting the domestic production of new products and ideas. This year, the network was proud to sponsor an event focused on that same goal — the TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo. Representatives from the Manufacturing...
Jim Davis, UCLA Office of Advanced Research Computing, Vice Provost IT (CIO/CTO) & Professor Emeritus, executive oversight CESMII, highlights the findings of three industry-academic-government studies conducted between 2020 and 2025 on AI in Smart Manufacturing/I4.0 enterprises. These studies provide direction for CESMII’s operational AI and data...
