LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense manufacturing innovation institute, today announced it has signed a new Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program to continue to operate the public-private partnership and national manufacturing innovation institute (MII) for the next five years...

ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute announces the funding of four Makerspaces provided by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Region’s Build Back Better initiative awarded through the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The Makerspaces are led by the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), Indiana University of Pennsylvania...

MxD today announced the launch of the Curriculum and Pathways Integrating Technology and Learning (CAPITAL) skill development program. The CAPITAL program, which is supported by $6.2 million in federal funding, is designed to address the anticipated two million worker shortage in the manufacturing workforce and provide resources directly aimed at...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy publicly announced its decision to renew funding for its Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), one of DOE’s six existing Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. IACMI will be receiving federal funding across five fiscal...

The Minnesota Senate Jobs and Economic Development Committee today held an informational hearing on BioMADE today as part of a discussion on S.F. 2598, which would empower BioMADE to create a bioindustrial manufacturing innovation and production campus in Minnesota. This first-of-its-kind project would put Minnesota in the center of a 21st century...