Our efforts help ensure what's invented here is made here by a skilled American workforce.
Improve Our Way of Life
Innovations enabled by the 91¿´Æ¬ institutes results in products that assist workers, make buildings safer, consume less energy, and save lives. Today's research will improve tomorrow’s reality.
Strengthen Our Economy
91¿´Æ¬ institutes lead research and development on critical manufacturing technologies to strengthen U.S. global competitiveness, ensuring our country will reap the rewards of American innovation at scale.
Ensure Our National Security
91¿´Æ¬ institutes' efforts support a strong advanced manufacturing sector, critical for our cyber, economic, energy, food, and health security. The network's emphasis on domestic manufacturing and technology will secure American prosperity.
Empower the Next Generation
91¿´Æ¬ institutes partner with educational organizations to teach advanced manufacturing technologies via workshops, courses, internships, and apprenticeships. With this investment in skills, 91¿´Æ¬ will create the workforce of the future.
National Program Office
The 91¿´Æ¬ network is operated by the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, which is headquartered in the (NIST), in the . The office operates in partnership with the , the , , the , and the Departments of , , , and .
The office began as a pilot, recommended by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, but the overarching mission has not changed:
- To convene and enable industry-led, private-public partnerships focused on manufacturing innovation and engaging U.S. universities.
- To design and implement an integrated whole-of-government advanced manufacturing initiative to facilitate collaboration and information sharing across federal agencies.
- By coordinating federal resources and programs, the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office enhances technology transfer in U.S. manufacturing industries and helps companies overcome technical obstacles to scale-up new technologies and products.