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The Advanced Technology Program announced new awards that represent a total of up to $104.5 million in ATP funding. Companies in the Northeast-Midwest received roughly 61.5 percent of the awards. Learn more about ATP and view awardees. The July 14th Pittsburgh Field Forum on Manufacturing R&D Issues was a success! Visit the Pittsburgh Event page for more information, including an event summary and speaker testimony. Institute Manufacturing Efforts The Institute publishes the Manufacturing Fact Sheet, a monthly review of economic and labor data affecting manufacturers. The Institute also published Advancing Manufacturing Competitiveness, a 162-page guidebook that profiles, for the first time, the most important and useful federal programs available to small and mid-sized manufacturers. In clear and easily-accessible language, that report lays out the purpose of 31 key programs and describes how they can be used by industry. A separate guidebook, entitled Financing Manufacturing Efficiency and Growth, was released in May 1996, profiling federal and state financing programs available to manufacturers. State-by-State Manufacturing Synopses (all in pdf) Connecticut
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| Massachusetts Manufacturing in the Northeast and Midwest -- complete report (Oct 2002) Manufacturing Data
Manufacturing Supply Chain Project The Northeast-Midwest Institute has initiated a collaboration with the Manufacturing Supply Chain Consortium (MSCC), a New England initiative. The founding partners are affiliated with the US Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program (MEP). MSCC partners serve as the leading manufacturing business resource in their respective states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The MSCC is collaborating with the Department of Defense and its prime contractors to increase the participation of qualified small manufacturers in defense contracts and sub-contracts. This supply chain development initiative is a pilot project that will work with the NEMW Institute to sustain economic development progress from the New England start-up to an eighteen state expansion and its eventual ramp-up and integration with the MEP national system. This collaboration will work to promote the DoD Supply Chain, Homeland Security, Environmental Quality, Economic Vitality and other relevant manufacturing business issues. For more information on this work, contact John Cronin, President of MSCC, Rod Rodrigue, Managing Director of MSCC, or Diane DeVaul with NEMW.
The Northeast-Midwest Institute provides staff support to the Congressional and Senate Task Forces on Manufacturing, co-chaired by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Reps. Jack Quinn (R-NY) and Marty Meehan (D-MA). The Manufacturing Task Forces organize Capitol Hill and field hearings, prepare reports and policy recommendations, and promote legislation to assist this nation's manufacturing sector. With Capitol Hill briefings and letters to appropriators, Manufacturing Task Force members are leading congressional efforts to promote the Office of Industrial Technology within the Department of Energy, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) within the National Institute on Standards and Technology. Members also are trying to extend and reform the research and experimentation tax credit for manufacturers and consortium. U.S. Representatives Mike Doyle and Melissa Hart held a Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition/ Manufacturing Task Force Forum on July 14 at Carnegie Mellon University in order to hear from Pittsburgh manufacturers and area experts about the challenges facing manufacturers, what works, and what still needs to be done. Pittsburgh has put together winning strategies for manufacturers, offering partnership opportunities and support to companies in the area. Despite these efforts, Pennsylvania lost 94,200 manufacturing jobs between August 1998 and November 2002, and the job loss continues. The forum's two panels of manufacturers and their partners focused on the need for federal investment in research and development in manufacturing technologies. Visit the Pittsburgh Forum page for more information, including an event summary and speaker testimony. Contact:Kris
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