Each year, the NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing enjoys the unique privilege of convening the Manufacturing USA network for its annual meeting. The 2025 Manufacturing USA Network Meeting was an energizing gathering of over 80 representatives from the program’s 18 manufacturing innovation institutes and supporting federal agencies. Over a day...

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, Inc. ( AFFOA ) proudly announces Nuream and Z-Polymers as the next awardees to participate in the Product Accelerator for Functional Fabrics (PAFF) 2.0 program. This strategic initiative aims to accelerate the commercialization of advanced functional fabric products through targeted technical and...

Advanced manufacturing impacts our everyday lives, economic competitiveness, national security, and sustainability making it a vital component of the American economy. In the past decade, the American manufacturing landscape has transformed, and the Manufacturing USA network is leading the call to ensure that what is invented here stays here and...

Manufacturing USA has released the Strategic Plan for the Manufacturing USA Program . The plan describes the program’s vision, mission, goals, and objectives. It also outlines the program’s technology investment strategy, how investments made by federal agencies will be coordinated, and how the program will be assessed.

The plan describes...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made two awards totaling $153 million to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). The awards were announced today by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo at the NIIMBL annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

NIIMBL...