Lightweight Materials, Materials

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation ® (IACMI) , also known as IACMI–The Composites Institute®, celebrates today a decade of revitalizing American manufacturing and strengthening the nation’s defense industrial base. Established by the Department of Energy (DOE), IACMI was announced as the fifth of now 17 Manufacturing...

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Cybersecurity, Digital Twins

Purdue University is taking manufacturers somewhere they have never been: inside a blast furnace.

The university’s physics-based, data-driven, next-generation Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace (IVBF) mirrors a blast furnace, enabling an unprecedented interior view and providing an example of how manufacturing is embracing digital twin technology...

3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing

America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) are pleased to announce the winners of a recent project call awarded through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD(R&E)), totaling $2.1M in funding. The project call, released in June...

Department of Commerce
Digital Twins

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that CHIPS for America awarded the Semiconductor Research Corporation Manufacturing Consortium Corporation (SRC) $285 million to establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. This follows the previously announced intent to enter negotiations on...