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Lightweight Materials, Materials

Congratulations to IACMI member Endeavor Composites on the inauguration and ribbon cutting for their new facility in East Tennessee.

The approximately 22,000-square-foot advanced composites factory integrates fiber preparation, continuous wet-laid and air-laid production, research and pilot laboratories, machining, forming, and composite curing...

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Lightweight Materials

Join Huan Gu of AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology for an inside look at the key trends, technologies, and investment priorities emerging from IMTS 2026. Drawing on AMT’s proprietary exhibitor and attendee data, show-floor research, product launches, and industry interviews, this presentation will examine how the manufacturing...

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Cybersecurity

Spend any length of time in any particular industry and you’ll hear the same statements being made that purport to be ‘facts.’ Dig just below the surface however, and you often find out that when it comes to the security of Defense Industrial Base (DIB) these statements are more myth and legend than fact. As the National Center for Cybersecurity in...

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Chemical Processing, Materials

he RAPID Manufacturing Institute®, an initiative of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has named Jim Bielenberg, PhD, as its Executive Director. Bielenberg returns to RAPID after previously serving as the Institute’s first Chief Technology Officer.

Bielenberg succeeds Frank van Lier, who is stepping down after helping lead RAPID...

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Additive Manufacturing, Manufacturing Day, Workforce

In support of National Manufacturing Day on October 2, America Makes , the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, is launching a nationwide series of hands-on “3D Printing for Drones” experiences designed to introduce high school students to the exciting intersection of 3D printing, also referred to as additive manufacturing (AM)...

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Materials

The Composites Institute® and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) today announced the inaugural Build Freedom Summit, a national event bringing together leaders from manufacturing, defense, education, government, and workforce development to strengthen America’s advanced manufacturing workforce and defense industrial base.

Sponsored...

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Lightweight Materials

LIFT, the Department of War-supported national advanced materials and manufacturing innovation institute, has officially announced the Advancing ICME for U.S. Casting & Forging Industries Project Call.

LIFT is seeking innovative solutions from industry and academia to advance the state of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for...

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Biomanufacturing, Biopharmaceutical

NIIMBL is excited to announce the host locations for the 2027 NIIMBL eXperience. These organizations will host a unique program next summer, designed to introduce first- and second-year college students to biopharmaceutical careers.

The 2027 NIIMBL eXperience hosts are:

Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust Santa Clara University...

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Lightweight Materials, Materials

IACMI-The Composites Institute® announced today that Andrew Maxey joined IACMI on Sept. 1 as its new Executive Vice President (EVP). IACMI is one of 17 Manufacturing USA® institutes created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing through large scale public-private collaboration on technology, supply chain and workforce...

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ARM
Robotics

Earlier this year, the Office of the Under Secretary of War Manufacturing Technology Office (OSW ManTech) issued an Organic Industrial Base (OIB) Modernization Challenge to the nation’s Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs), including the ARM Institute. This challenge supports the Department of War (DoW)’s focus on transforming and modernizing...

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Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing

In this episode, Jeff Winter sits down with three industry leaders, John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds, to explore the convergence of Unified Namespace (UNS) and CESMII’s i3X. Together, they address the shared industry challenge that brought these frameworks together, why they complement rather than compete with one another, and what...

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Cybersecurity

When can a manufacturing company be cyberattacked and not cyberattacked at the same time?

The answer — anytime — is not a paradox like the famous thought experiment about Schrödinger’s cat. Manufacturers belong to supply chains and rely on vendors, many of which have digital connections that can be exploited by hackers. An attack on one company...