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...

The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, through a partnership with its fellow Manufacturing USA® Institutes and led by Nextflex®, has been awarded funding from the Office of Naval Research for new manufacturing workforce education activities. The ARM Institute has partnered with Pittsburgh-based members, New Century Careers and...

The Youngstown Business Incubator , along with America Makes , and Team NEO , have been awarded a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation to develop an infrastructure and provide commercialization services for technologies related to Additive Manufacturing (AM). This program will focus on commercializing the Intellectual Property resulting from...