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NOVEMBER 2026: Network News and National Impact |
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Manufacturing USA is excited to announce the launch of “Invented Here. Made Here.,” a national initiative that showcases how the Manufacturing USA network of institutes is turning innovation into commercial impact in America, building a stronger, safer, and more prosperous country. Watch a new video highlighting how the network is uniting industry, academia, and government to enable American manufacturers to scale faster and remain globally competitive. You can also explore success stories and metrics on the Impacts page to see examples of how the network of manufacturing innovation institutes is helping ensure that what’s invented here is made here.
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Connection, Innovation, and Insight at IMTS 2026
Over an energetic week of programming at IMTS 2026, the Manufacturing USA network engaged thousands of industry leaders, innovators, and future makers, showcasing how public-private collaboration accelerates manufacturing from discovery to production. Representatives from institutes, including America Makes, ARM Institute, CyManII, IACMI, LIFT, and MxD, hosted interactive Knowledge Bar sessions at the Manufacturing USA booth and delivered key stage presentations on topics such as cybersecurity, lightweight materials, and industrial super intelligence. The network also helped inspire the next-generation workforce at the Smartforce Student Summit through hands-on demonstrations and digital training tools, underscoring a shared commitment to building a resilient, highly skilled manufacturing ecosystem.
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PowerAmerica Leader Honored with 2026 APEX Award of Excellence
PowerAmerica Executive Director and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Victor Veliadis was recently celebrated with the prestigious 2026 APEX Award of Excellence in Technical and Technology Writing from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. The award, presented at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo in Vancouver, honors a paper co-authored with Dr. Thomas Jahns on monolithic bidirectional lateral Gallium Nitride (GaN) switches. The research demonstrates how emerging wide-bandgap semiconductor architectures can improve energy efficiency across power electronics. At PowerAmerica, Veliadis helps advance manufacturing technology and workforce development for silicon carbide and GaN semiconductors and power electronics.
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ARM Institute Project Call to Support Shipbuilding
To bolster the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding industrial base, ARM Institute has issued a new technology project call to drive higher throughput and quality in naval production. Backed by Navy funding, the initiative targets two critical manufacturing hurdles: developing an adaptive, edge-compute super intelligence (welding system and creating robust in-process volumetric inspection technology. By ensuring consistent quality and detecting flaws in real time, these robotic and SI-driven solutions will help shorten production lead times and strengthen domestic fleet readiness. The proposal submission deadline is November 23, 2026, and applicants must be institute members at the time of submission.
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NIIMBL has been selected to serve as an anchor partner for the Mid-Atlantic Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Cluster, a new Regional Innovation Cluster awarded by the U.S. Small Business Administration. This regional cluster will rely on NIIMBL’s expertise to bridge the critical gap between early-stage discovery and commercial-scale biopharmaceutical production. NIIMBL will lead development of a specialized biomanufacturing-readiness curriculum and provide essential testing and technical validation for emerging biotech ventures, enabling startups to de-risk production hurdles before investing capital in scaling.
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REMADE Issues Call for Circular Economy Solutions
The REMADE Institute has issued an official Call for Papers ahead of its 2027 Circular Economy Tech Summit & Conference, inviting academic researchers, industry innovators, and international experts to share breakthrough solutions in multiple aspects of the circular economy. Submissions will explore critical topics driving the circular transition, including design for reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling; critical materials recovery; mechanical and chemical recycling technologies; and supply chain systems analysis. Selected papers will be presented at the conference and published afterward. Abstracts are due by December 4, 2026.
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MxD and Amatrol Expand Access to Manufacturing Training
To prepare the modern industrial workforce for digital transformation, MxD has partnered with Amatrol to deliver industry-vetted digital manufacturing training directly to learners across all 50 states. Through Amatrol’s Learning Management System, high schools, community colleges, universities, and regional workforce programs now have direct access to three specialized MxD courses developed with input from manufacturers: Data Annotation, Manufacturing Data Analytics, and Premetaverse Integration Technology. By uniting MxD’s technical curriculum with Amatrol’s educational reach, this collaboration helps remove regional training barriers, equips emerging and upskilling technicians with high-demand digital skills, and strengthens the domestic manufacturing talent pipeline from classroom to factory floor.
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