In order to create an economy built to last, America needs to make more things the rest of the world wants to buy. - President Obama The Obama Administration announced today a new Public-Private Partnership to support manufacturing innovation and to encourage investment in America Consortium of Businesses, Universities, and Community Colleges from as far across the country as Youngstown Ohio, to West Virginia and Pennsylvania as part of its ongoing efforts to help revitalize American manufacturing and encourage companies to invest in the United States. The new partnership, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), was selected through a competitive process, led by the Department of Defense, to award an initial $30 million in federal funding, matched by $40 million from the winning consortium, which includes manufacturing firms, universities, community colleges, and non-profit organizations from the Ohio-Pennsylvania-West Virginia ‘Tech Belt.’...
Covering Washington politics. From Our vantage point. One point at a time.