DoD Manufacturing Innovative Institutes
Abstract
DoD’s eight institutes are: (1) America Makes (Additive Manufacturing); (2) Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (Digital Manufacturing, Design and Cybersecurity); (3) Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing (Lightweighting Innovations – materials and processes); (4) American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (Device Manufacturing and Packaging); (5) Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute (Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing); (6) Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (Smart Fibers and Textiles); (7) Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing Innovation Institute (regenerative tissue manufacturing); (8) Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (Smart Collaborative Robotics for Manufacturing). The funding provided for the manufacturing innovation institutes is focused in the following areas: • Conducting (or funding) pre-competitive applied research and development projects to reduce the cost, time, and technical uncertainty related to new manufacturing technologies and to improve existing technologies, processes, and products. • Developing and implementing education, training, and workforce recruitment courses, materials, and programs. • Developing innovative methodologies and practices for supply chain integration and introduction of new technologies into supply chains. • Engaging with small and mid-sized manufacturers, including women and minority-owned manufacturing enterprises, and larger-sized manufacturing firms. While each institute has a different model there are similar in the following ways; • Each is a public-private partnership with representatives from industry, academia, state and local governments, and the DoD that co-invest in world-leading technologies and capabilities. • Each institute provides facilities needed to allow collaborative, precompetitive development of promising technologies and to promote the creation of stable and sustainable innovation ecosystems for advanced manufacturing. • The partnerships forming the institutes must commit non-federal resources that equal or exceed the federal contribution during a five- to seven-year establishment period. • Each institute is part of the Manufacturing USA network.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 5793bb59818f6fa98bfbe9fef390de90