Following our milestone ten-year anniversary, 2025 was a year of continued innovation, engagement, and improvement experienced by the advanced manufacturing network and beyond.

Notable highlights from 2025 include:

Advanced Manufacturing Occupation and Competency Framework

In an effort to equip job seekers, employers, and trainers with the...

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Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Robotics

ManTech engaged the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing ( ARM) Institute to assess the current defense-oriented advanced manufacturing landscape and future skills requirements. As part of this effort, Deloitte assessed skill needs over five and ten-year horizons as well as regional training providers with programs focused on those skills.

The...

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Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Robotics

The ARM Institute’s Robotics Manufacturing Hub was recently awarded Technical.ly Pittsburgh’s Programming of the Year Award! More than 4,000 individuals voted in the overall awards to recognize the region’s most impactful products, projects, and experts.

Our Robotics Manufacturing Hub program helps to put robotics into the hands of local...

Lightweight Materials, Materials

IACMI–The Composites Institute® (IACMI), today announced the launch of ‘Make It In America’, a national outreach campaign to raise awareness of careers in advanced manufacturing and help fill the 3.8 million jobs needed by 2030.

Leveraging IACMI’s two workforce development programs, America’s Cutting Edge (ACE) and Metallurgical Engineering Trades...

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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

First time quality is not accessible in current high tolerance, large complex robotic coatings applications within the defense and aerospace industries, leading to excessive manual rework, re-programming, and increased product lead time. Currently, there are limited, viable, solutions for coating and finishing of complex geometry parts with closed...