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AFFOA PHOTONICS LIFT DDMII


AMERICA MAKES


POWER AMERICA


IACMI AIM


WHAT: AMERICA MAKES is assigned to develop and accelerate additive manufacturing technology. America Makes has more than 160 members, includ- ing 3D Systems, Boeing, NASA, Stratasys and the University of Northern Iowa. America Makes in February announced three challenges called Innovation Sprints to further R&D advancing 3D printing. The group said it would award the winner of each challenge a Silver-level membership for one year,


worth $15,000. WHEN OPENED:


August 2012 WHERE: Youngstown, OH


WHAT: THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MANU- FACTURING PHOTONICS is focused on developing an end-to-end integrated pho- tonics ecosystem in the US, including domestic foundry access, integrated design tools, automated packag- ing, assembly and test, as well as workforce develop- ment. Originally named the Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Integrated Pho- tonics, it is now called AIM Photonics. Members include Cisco, Corning, GE, Global Foundries, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Northrop Grum- man, Raytheon and United


Technologies. WHEN OPENED:


July 2015 WHERE: Rochester, NY


WHAT: POWER AMERICA is assigned to work to make wide bandgap, or WBG, semiconductor technolo- gies cost-competitive with silicon-based power elec- tronics currently in use. The institute’s 19 members include ABB, Delphi, Florida State University, North Carolina State University


and Toshiba. WHEN OPENED:


December 2014 WHERE: Raleigh, NC


WHAT: THE ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL FIBERS OF AMERICA (AFFOA) INSTITUTE is a public- private partnership that includes 32 universities and 72 manufacturing entities. MIT said new fi bers and the fabrics made from them will be able to “see, hear, and sense their surroundings; communicate; store and convert energy; monitor health; control temperature;


and change their color.” WHEN ANNOUNCED:


April 2016. WHERE: Cambridge, MA


WHAT: SMART MANU- FACTURING INNOVATION INSTITUTE (sensors and


process controls) WHEN & WHERE: To be decided


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Spring 2016


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