Draft2:Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
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Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) is a national effort bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in the emerging technologies that will create high quality manufacturing jobs and enhance our global competitiveness. Investing in technologies, such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, will support the creation of good jobs by helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development.[1]
The Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office grew out of the Partnership.
Origins
The AMP was developed based on the recommendation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which released a report entitled “Ensuring Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing.” The PCAST report calls for a partnership between government, industry, and academia to identify the most pressing challenges and transformative opportunities to improve the technologies, processes and products across multiple manufacturing industries.[1]
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee was co-chaired by Andrew Liveris, President, Chairman, and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company, and Rafael Reif, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The committee is comprised of the following members:
- Christie Wong Barrett, CEO, MacArthur Corp.
- Wes Bush, Chairman, CEO and President, Northrop Grumman Corp.
- David Cote, Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
- Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
- Kenneth Ender, President, Harper College
- Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers
- Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Eric Kelly, President and CEO, Overland Storage
- Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa Inc.
- Andrew Liveris, President, Chairman, and CEO, The Dow Chemical Company
- Ajit Manocha, Senior Advisor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
- Douglas Oberhelman, Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
- Annette Parker, President, South Central College
- G.P. “Bud” Peterson, President, Georgia Tech
- Luis Proenza, President Emeritus, The University of Akron
- Rafael Reif, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mark Schlissel, President, The University of Michigan
- Eric Spiegel, President and CEO, Siemens Corp.
- Michael R. Splinter, Executive Chairman of the Board, Applied Materials Inc.
Background
In June 2011, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommended the formation of the “Advanced Manufacturing Partnership” (AMP) (report). The partnership was led by Dow Chemical Company President, Chairman, and CEO Andrew Liveris, and MIT President Susan Hockfield. The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership was charged with identifying collaborative opportunities between industry, academia and government that would catalyze development and investment in emerging technologies, policies and partnerships with the potential to transform and reinvigorate advanced manufacturing in the United States. In 2012 it issued its first set of recommendations, “Report to the President on Capturing Domestic Competitive Advantage in Advanced Manufacturing.”
After a nationwide outreach and engagement effort, “The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation: A Preliminary Design,” was issued in January 2013.
In September 2013, an AMP 2.0 final report focused on a renewed, cross-sector, national effort to secure U.S. leadership in the emerging technologies that will create high-quality manufacturing jobs and enhance the United States' global competitiveness. The steering committee, whose members are among the nation’s leaders in industry, academia, and labor, was a working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
In December, 2014, Congress passed the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act (RAMI Act) into law, which gave Congressional authorization to the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office and authorized the Department of Commerce to hold “open-topic” competitions for manufacturing innovation institutes where those topics of highest importance to industry could be proposed.
In February 2016, the 2015 Annual Report and the first 3-year Strategic Plan were released. An Annual Report and/or Manufacturing USA Highlights Report have been subsequently released each year since.
Related
External links
Related federal initiatives
- MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight
- Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership
- NIST Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech)
- Manufacturing Extension Partnership
- Materials Genome Initiative
- National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
- National Nanotechnology Initiative
- National Export Initiative
- National Robotics Initiative
- SelectUSA
- Startup America
- Sustainable Manufacturing