AMCC Update: March 1, 2024
American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC)
The AMCC represents a coalition of nationwide communities with the shared goal of revitalizing American manufacturing.
1. Uniquely Abled Project to Join this Monday's National Call!
Join us on this Monday's AMCC national 30 minute call when Ivan Rosenberg, Founder and President of the Uniquely Abled Project, will talk about enabling training careers for individuals with autism and other uniquely abled populations. So many people with disabilities are in fact “uniquely abled”, so let's learn together how more manufacturing communities across the country can benefit from tapping into this inspiring and productive pool human potential!
Thanks again to Alabama Defense Advanced Manufacturing Community and Auburn University's Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Manufacturing Systems for hosting us in person on this past Monday's AMCC national call - more on our Alabama Roadshow in item #5 below. Please reach out to AMCC Operations Director David Van Siclen if you are having issues with your Monday call invitations, or have others you'd like to add. You can find recordings of past Monday presentations here.
2. Read this Brookings Metro Report on Sustaining Place-Based Initiatives!
Super important, please read this report from Brooking's David Johnson and Mark Muro on the uncertainty of sustaining bottom up regional consortia work going on in federally seeded programs, e.g. this could apply to DMCSP, BBBRC, NSF Engines, Tech Hubs etc. They point out that "the wide and inclusive scope of these awards suggests intriguing possibilities for a concerted advocacy campaign among cities, states, regions, and rural and urban areas—crossing all geographies and politics, and sharing an urgent interest in realizing the full promise of these programs." They also urge very American region to do what so many have already begun to do; think about how best to enhance and/or pivot from federal, state, and/or private funding to continue and accelerate the good hard work of producing the economic, social, environmental, and national security benefits regions want for long-term prosperity. The article describes strategies like bringing in capital markets, philanthropies, and businesses into consortia efforts. We'll talk more about this here and on Monday calls!
3. Third NOFO from CHIPS Office Released
The NIST CHIPS for America office released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on materials and substrates R&D, with $300M in available funding. This is the third NOFO from the office, and the first focused on R&D on a range of materials. Concept papers due April 12th, give the webpage, fact sheet, vision paper, and upcoming workshop a review and share with your relevant contacts. And, in DOC Secretary Gina Raimondo's recent policy address on CHIPS implementation she said the U.S. is now on track to manufacture 20% of the world's cutting edge logic chips by 2030. From 0% to 20%, that's progress toward making this century an American century!
4. Clean Investment Monitor
Here's a great resource from the Rhodium Group and MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: the Clean Investment Monitor. We all love maps and charts to inform our network and smarter interventions, and this one looks very useful! They chart and map across the country clean technology investments in manufacturing. Check out what's happing in your region? Our read so far? compared to five years ago, we've made significant progress is spots attracting new investment to clean technology manufacturing nationwide, but lots of good hard work ahead of us!
5. AMCC Roadshow Alabama: Early Reflections
Wow, what a great AMCC Roadshow we just wrapped last night in Alabama! Courtesy of our hosts and co-creators, Joe Paxton and Brian Tucker with University of Alabama at Huntsville's Alabama Defense Advanced Manufacturing Community, we traveled half the state over four days, visiting with industry, academia, workforce and other parts of AL's manufacturing ecosystem. Thank you both! A few highlights:
-Re AL research & innovation, we visited Auburn University's ICAMS center, a resource for SMMs in new technologies, they also kindly hosted our Monday AMCC call,
-Re AL supply chain support, tech adoption, and workforce, we attended the Alabama Automotive Manufacturers Association's (AAMA) workshop with manufacturers and stakeholders learning about their breakthroughs and challenges,
-Re AL workforce and DEIA, our hosts used AMCC's visit as a "forcing function" for creating and revitalizing partnerships in meetings with manufacturing related leads at Tuskegee and Troy Universities. They also led a workshop in Dothan AL with 30+ workforce developers and local manufacturers charting a path forward for a stronger regional manufacturing workforce ecosystem with the Alabama Works system,
-Re developing regional manufacturing community metrics, we co-created a daylong workshop on the Manufacturing Community Ecosystem Metrics (MCEM) project and how it informs how Alabama's workforce ecosystem can improve. The full day of great discussion included reps from DOD's OLDCC and IBAS, NCDMM, the community college system, North Alabama Works, ATN (the AL MEP), AIDT, K-12, as well as participation with BFFs Matt Fieldman with America Works and Brent Weil with JFF. Great learnings and takeaways - thanks to all - more to come soon!
The next AMCC Roadshow is a week away in Wisconsin March 11-13th. Let's get your region on the map - reach out today!
6. Relighting the Flame - Documentary by Alliance for American Manufacturing
Thanks to Jenn Snyder with the Alliance for American Manufacturing for sharing this 25 minute documentary film on YouTube about the dignity of manufacturing work emanating from the Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland Works steel mill.
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7. Reminder: State Planning Grant Conference for EDDs and State Planners
For all AMCCers at EDA designated Economic Development Districts (EDDs) and those who have managed or supported ARPA planning grants, the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) will be hosting a Summit in Washington D.C. March 13th-14th. The event will be an opportunity for attendees to share best practices on the implementation of Statewide Planning Grants and learn and connect with others working on similar initiatives. Register here, or reach out to CREC's Leif Olson for more information (thanks Leif!).
8. Manufacturing an American Century Episode 11 with Brookings' Mark Muro!
Check out this must-hear episode with Mark and the rest of Manufacturing An American Century pods available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and our website.
9. Recent Funding Announcements and Guides (Updated: 3/1/2024 thanks to David, updates highlighted, be sure to study the announcements carefully to confirm official due dates.)
10. Selected Research from Andrew Reamer with the Industry Studies Association, and other sources (mostly thanks to David!):
Onward!
Matt Bogoshian
Executive Director
831-601-9509
David Van Siclen
Operations Director
925-984-6169
P.S. As we carry out our work, let's remember to use America's?four-year plan to strengthen advanced manufacturing in the U.S.?to inform next steps, a strategy that fits within the larger?U.S. National Security Strategy.