Today, NIIMBL (the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals) announced that a NIIMBL-led team will receive $10.5 Million in funding through the Gates Grand Challenges Program to advance exceptionally low-cost monoclonal antibody (mAb) manufacturing. Over the three-year award, key partners including Sartorius, Rensselaer...
SMART USA has officially completed its Phase 1 startup—and what a launch it’s been. In just nine months, we’ve welcomed 100+ committed members, hosted a 350-person summit, and issued our first $50+ million project solicitation, which drew an exceptionally strong collaborative response from academics and industry across the country. These...
The REMADE Institute® , a 150+ member public-private partnership funded in part by the United States Department of Energy, today issued its seventh Request for Proposals, representing up to a $6 million investment in supplemental funding for technologies that support the nation's manufacturing competitiveness and supply chain resilience goals.
The...
The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals ( NIIMBL) is pleased to announce awards for two projects to support Big Data Program initiatives on modeling and simulation. The awards stem from two Requests for Applications (RFAs) NIIMBL released in May 2025.
The 12-month projects are scheduled to begin in December.
The...
Today marks five years since BioMADE was announced as the bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation Institute by the Department of Defense in October 2020. From our inception, BioMADE has championed innovation, collaboration, and resilience, growing into a national network of over 300 members and delivering transformative impact across industry...
On this episode, Joe Steele of LIFT joins the podcast to share some recent news. Their organization has been awarded a contract to accelerate the development of ceramic-based materials for use in industrial and defense applications.
This new four-year, $9 million “Critical Materials Processing” program will advance the state of technology and...
The National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), in collaboration with America Makes , is proud to announce the appointment of Megan Malara, Ph.D. , as Director of the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace and Defense.
Dr. Malara, a native of the Youngstown area, will lead the Hub’s mission to transform the Northeast...
The Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC) hosted its second annual Manufacturing and Technology Summit this past week, bringing together industry leaders, government agencies, and other stakeholders to address the future of advanced manufacturing in Texas.
The event, held at the University of Houston in celebration of Manufacturing and...
In an effort to equip Michigan students with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the rapidly evolving world of advanced manufacturing, IGNITE: Mastering Manufacturing curriculum has kicked off for the 2025-26 school year at Delton Kellogg High School. 10% of the school’s population of more than 300 students is participating in the...
Today, the ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute is pleased to announce the availability of the final, public version of our Adaptive Incremental Forming through Optimized Robotic Manufacturing (AI-FORM) Tech Project Call created in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The ARM Institute expects to award...
A 2024 report by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General described more than 300 separate water systems that are at risk from cyberattacks, systems serve more than 100 million people.
An attack on any of those systems could disrupt service or cause irreparable physical damage to the system’s drinking water infrastructure.
...The U.S. Department of Defense wants to know how to get the rust out of metals created in the additive manufacturing process. It’s willing to pay $1.3 million for the answer.
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, based in Youngstown, announced Tuesday a new open project call that is being funded by the...
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...
As the nation celebrates National Manufacturing Month during the month of October, a new kind of industrial revolution is quietly reshaping America’s production landscape. Instead of furnaces and foundries, this one runs on fermentation tanks, engineered cells, and feedstocks like algae and corn.
The movement has a name: bioindustrial manufacturing...
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining on Tuesday announced a new open project call worth a total of $1.3 million.
The Corrosion of Additive – Tested At Component Scale (CATACS) project, funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office, focuses on two main topic areas and...
