The U.S. Advanced 

Manufacturing Initiat

Federal Resources and 

Opportunitie

for Public/Private Partnerships

Michael F. Molnar

Chief Manufacturing Officer

National Institute of Standards and Technology

US Department of Commerce
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Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufactu• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn• NIST activities supporting AMP• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 
Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufact• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn• NIST activities supporting AMP• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 
Article I, Section 8: The 

shall have the power tostandard of weights and 

National Bureau of Standards established by Congress in 1901

Authority for / Importance of St

Estimated that 80% of global merchandise trade is influenced by testing ameasurement-related requirements of regulations and standards

established by Congress in 1901• Eight different “authoritative” values for the gallon• No standards for nascent electrical industry• American instruments sent abroad for calibration• Consumer products and construction materials 

uneven in quality and unreliable
NBS: The Founding Charg

“It is therefore the unanimous opinion of your committee that no more essential aid could be given to • manufacturing• commerce• the makers of scientific apparatus• the scientific work of Government• schools, colleges, and universities than by the establishment of the institution proposed in this bill.”House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, May 3, 1900, 

on the establishment of the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST
The Congress finds and declares ...

• The future well-being of the United States economy depends on a s

manufacturing base and requires continual improvements in manufacturing technology, quality control, and techniques for ensuproduct reliability and cost-effectiveness.

NBS to NIST: The Charge Exp

• Improvements in manufacturing and product technology 

depend on fundamental scientific and engineering research to develop

a) the precise and accurate measurement methods and 

measurement standards needed to improve quality andreliability, and

b) new technological processes by which such improved 

methods may be used in practice to improve manufacturing and to assist industry to transfer important laboratory discoveries into commercial products.

NIST Organic Act - 15 U.S.C 271, Section 1, 1988 
NIST’s Unique Mission

• Mission focus: Targeting Investments to Advance U.S. Innovation and Boost Eco• Deep research expertise underpins technological innovation 

– e.g. lasers, memo

To promote U.S. innovation and industrial compe

by advancing measurement science, standard

technology in ways that enhance economic secu

improve our quality of life.

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Nanomanufacturing: New 

measurement tools for advanced 

materials manufacturing

Cybersecurity: Improved 

response to cyber threats

Energy: Measurements 

for energy se

• Deep research expertise underpins technological innovation 

– e.g. lasers, memo

• Non-regulatory status enables important role as a convener that facilitates colla

industry and government

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1901 2011

Since inception, NBS/NIST Since inception, NBS/NIST focused re

focused re

measurement services measurement services on societa

societa

Guiding Principle: Always Provide Objective, Correct Scien

to foster technology adoption, manufacturing and trade, and policy d
Major assets

 ~ 2800 federal employees ~ 2600 associates and facilities users/year ~ 1600 field staff in partner organizations 

(Manufacturing Extension Partnership)

 Two main locations, MD and CO

NIST at a Glance...

 Four collaborative Institutes (basic 

physics, biotech, quantum, marine)

FY 2011 – Total NIST $750 M

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NIST’s role in the Presiden

Science Science and Innovation Age

and Innovation Age

NIST is strategically positioned to help the improve its innovation performance and reffectively and efficiently to national priorNIST programs in support of Administratio

Presidential Priorities

•Manufacturing • Innovation and 

competiveness

•Smart Grid•Health IT•Cyber-security

NIST Strategic NIST Strategic Pr

Pr

•Manufacturing•Physical Infrastr• Energy• Environment•Health care•Secure IT & Com
In Short... NIST and Manufac

• NIST is Industry’s National Laboratory• Manufacturing is NIST’s top priority• NIST will be playing a major role in the 

upcoming Advanced Manufacturing Initia

Message to imX from Dr. Patrick GallagherUnder Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technologyand Director of NIST
Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufactu• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn• NIST activities supporting AMP• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT

Ensuring American Leadership

In Advanced Manufacturing

Executive Office of the President

President’s Council of Advisors on 

Science and Technology
Summary of Key Conclusion

• The United States is losing leadership in manufacturing

– not just in low-tech industries and products and not just due to low 

but losing ground in the production of high-tech products, includinresulting from U.S. innovation and inventions, and in manufacturinR&D.

• Other nations are investing heavily in advancing their manufactu

leadership, innovation systems, and R&D.

• The United States lags behind competitor nations in providing th

environment and skilled workforce needed for advanced manufa

• A strong advanced manufacturing sector is essential to national • Advanced manufacturing has the potential to create and retain h

jobs in the United States.
Summary of Key Conclusions (co

• The Nation’s long-term ability to innovate and compete in the gl

economy greatly benefits from co-location of manufacturing and R&D activities in the United States. The loss of these activities wundermine our capacity to invent, innovate, and compete in glob

• Federal investments in new technologies, shared infrastructure, 

tools have been crucial to the birth and growth of major new ind

• Individual companies cannot justify the investment required to f

many important new technologies that will have spillover beneficreate the full infrastructure needed to support manufacturing. investment must be complemented by public investment to ovemarket failures. Key opportunities include 

1) investing in the advancement of new technologies with 

transformative potential

2) supporting shared infrastructure3) accelerating the manufacturing process through targeted 

for new methods and approaches.
Principles for Promoting 

Advanced Manufacturing in the 

(1) Create a fertile environment for innovation here.

– Encourage firms to locate R&D and manufacturing act

the US through tax and business policies

– Support a robust basic research enterprise – Ensure a supply of skilled workers, through policies th

cultivate and attract high-skilled talent
Principles for Promoting 

Advanced Manufacturing in the 

(2) Invest to overcome market failures, to ensure new 

technologies are developed here and technology-benterprises have the infrastructure to flourish here

– Support applied research programs in most promisin

technologies

– Co

-invest in public/private partnerships to facilitate 

development of broadly-applicable technologies with transformative potential 

– Develop and disseminate design methodologies that 

the time and lower the barriers to make products

– Invest in shared technology infrastructure that would 

companies improve their manufacturing
1) Launch a Federal Advanced Manufacturing Initiative

– Concerted, whole-of-government effort, led by DOC, DOD and DO– Report to President on priority needs for Federal investments, inc

• Coordinated Federal support to academia and industry for ap

research on new technologies and design methodologies

• Development and dissemination of design methodologies • Shared facilities and infrastructure to help small and medium

compete globally

• Public/Private Partnerships (PPPs) to advance such technolog

pre-competitive consortia 

Recommendations

2) Improve Tax Policy

– Reform corporate income taxes, extend the R&D tax credit perma

increase the rate to 17%, as advocated in the President’s Innovati

3) Support Research

– Strengthen research of three key science agencies: NSF, DOE Offic

NIST

4) Strengthen the Workforce

– Strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (ST

education
1. Invest in shared infrastructure facilities, including Federal and unive

laboratories, which could be easily accessed by small and medium

and would facilitate significant productivity gains by allowing those to rapidly prototype, customize, test and produce new products; 

2. Support the development of advanced manufacturing processes th

multiple industry sectors and could be used by an array of compan

PCAST Recommended Critical Inv

dramatically reduce product development time and increase entrepability to design and transition their inventions into products made iStates; and 

3. Participate in partnerships with industry and academia that iden

invest in broadly-applicable, precompetitive, emerging technologies the potential to transform the manufacturing sector. 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-advanced-manufacturing-june2011.pdf
Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufactu• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Part• NIST activities supporting AMP• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 

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Advanced Manufacturing Part

• June 24, 2011 President launches Advanced Manufact

Partnership (AMP)

• Public/private partnership with industry, universities a

federal agencies to identify, fund, and promote manuf

in emerging technology areas

• Specifically, includes:

• National security industries• Materials Genome initiative• Next-generation robotics• Energy-efficient manufacturing• Includes NIST AMTech Program
• A national effort bringing together industry, universities, an

federal government to invest in the emerging technologies create high quality manufacturing jobs and enhance our gcompetitiveness.

• AMP leverages existing programs and proposals, and inve

than $500 million to jumpstart this effort. 

Industry Government Academia

AMP Overview

• Allegheny Technologies• Caterpillar• Corning• Dow Chemical• Ford• Honeywell• Intel• Johnson & Johnson• Northrop Grumman• Procter & Gamble• Stryker

Academia• Massachusetts 

Technology

• Carnegie Mello• Georgia Institut

Technology

• Stanford Univer• University of Ca

Berkeley

• University of M

Government• Department of Agriculture• Department of Commerce• Department of Defense• Department of Energy• Department of Homeland 

Security

• National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration

• National Institutes of Health• National Science Foundation
Building domestic manufacturing capabilities in critical national security ind

Co-invest with industry in innovative technologies that will jumpstart domestmanufacturing capability essential to our national security and promote the economic viability of critical U.S. industries.Reducing the time to develop and deploy advanced materialsThe Materials Genome Initiative, would invest more than $100M in researchinfrastructure to enable U.S. companies to discover, develop, manufacture, aadvanced materials at twice the speed that is possible today, at a fraction of 

AMP – Key Steps

Investing in next-generation roboticsInvest $70 million to support research in next-generation robots. These invehelp create the next generation of robots that will work closely with human oenhancing the capabilities of factory workers, healthcare providers, soldiers, and astronauts.Developing innovative energy-efficient manufacturing processesThe Department of Energy will launch an effort to leverage invest $120 millioinnovative manufacturing processes and materials to enable companies to cuof manufacturing, while using less energy. 
Invest in the domestic manufacturing workforce

• Form a multi-university collaborative framework to educate and train wor

critical manufacturing skills 

• Use the Department of Energy’s National Training & Education Resource t

and train a new generation of manufacturers

Invest in Innovation• Explore new approaches to dramatically reduce – by up to a factor of 5 – t

required to design, build, and test manufactured goods to meet critical de

• Define research opportunities and build a collaborative roadmap for ident

AMP – Complementary Ste

technology priorities (manufacturers, universities, government agencies).

• Provide small and medium American companies access to highly valuable 

tools through the Midwest Modeling and Simulation consortium 

• Invest $24M in FY11, in domestic manufacturing technologies that addres

operational needs including improvements for transparent armor, stealth and targeting systems 

• Develop an online marketplace to increase domestic manufacturing capac

industries critical to our national security by connecting U.S. manufactureproduct needs at DOD and other federal agencies. 

• Develop an advanced manufacturing technology consortium, starting wit

FY12, to identify public/private partnerships to tackle common technologito the development of new products 
Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufactu• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn• NIST activities supporting AMP – NIST Laboratories and Services – Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership – Baldrige Performance Excellence Program – Technology Innovation Program – Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech)• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 
NIST Industry Programs

NIST Laboratories and Services• Providing measurement solutions for industry and 

the Nation

Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership• MEP’s nationwide network of resources helping 

smaller manufacturers compete globally

Baldrige Performance Excellence Program• Strengthening performance excellence in U.S. 

business

Technology Innovation Program• Early stage transformative Technology Innovation 

Program (TIP) to meet key societal challenges

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia• AmTech supporting R&D in advanced 

manufacturing and strengthening US leadership in critical technologies
Center for Nanoscale

Science and Technology Engineering

InfoTec

Physical Measurement

Providing measurement solutions for industry and the N

The NIST Laboratories

Tec

Material 

Measurement

NIST Center for 

Neutron Research

Measurement

NIST’s Laboratory Programs address manufacturing needs that

- are cross-cutting - touch all levels/phases of the manufacturing - support entire Industry Sectors - enable the emergence of new processes an
For over a century, the measurement services programs of NIST have 

the accuracy and reliability of nearly all measurements in the United S

NIST Measurement Servic

 U.S. Industry and the Consumer

NIST distributes over 1,200 different Standard Reference Materials that assure the accuracy of millions of measurements made dailyin manufacturing plants, industrial labs and medical clinics throughout the United States. 

 Federal Agencies 

NIST measurement programs provide critical federal agencies such as the DoD, DoE, FAA, EPA, and NASA, with the measurement support necessary to carry outtheir mission. 

 State Agencies

NIST calibrations are critical for all state weights and measures offices. 
Manufacturing Extension Part

Providing small manufacturing companies the Training, Tools Connections to ACCELERATE INNOVATION;Leading to new opportunities in domestic & export markets

Today, 59 centers with ~ 400 field locations

System-wide, Non-Federal staff is ~ 1,600Contracting with over 2,400 third party service providers

MEP Impact

FY 2009 survey of MEP clients: $8.4 B in increased/retained sales; 72,000 jobs 

created/retained

Performance-

Model – 1/3 Fe

Industry (fe
Baldrige Baldrige Performance Excellence 

Performance Excellence 

To improve the competitiveness and performance of U.S. organizthe benefit of all U.S. residents, the Baldrige Performance Excellenis a customer-focused federal change agent that:The nation's public/private partnership dedicated 

performance excellence.

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• Develops and disseminates evaluation criteria • Manages the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality 

Award 

• Promotes performance excellence • Provides global leadership in the learning and sharing 

of successful strategies and performance practices,principles, and methodologies
Technology Innovation Progra

TIP’s Mission Assist United States businesses and 

institutions of higher education or other organizations, such as national laboratories and nonprofit research institutions

 Support, promote, and accelerate 

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innovation in the United States through high-risk, high-reward research

 In areas of critical national need

America COMPETES Act (PL 110-69)

August 9, 2007

Funding Transformational Research for Critical National Needs
Support R&D in advanced manufacturing and 

strengthen long term US leadership in critical 

technologies leading to sustainable economic 

growth and job creation

Advanced Manufacturing Tech

Consortia ( Consortia (AMTech)

 Convene key players on eliminating critical barriers to 

innovation, increasing efficiency of domestic innovation efforts and collapsing time scale to deliver new products and services based on scientific and technological advances 

AMTech is Key part of President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn

efforts and collapsing time scale to deliver new products and services based on scientific and technological advances 

 Promotes the development of technology roadmaps and the 

formation of new, industry-led consortia to address critical, long-term industrial research needs.

 Consortia will develop road-maps of critical long-term 

industrial research needs as well as fund facilities, equipment and research at leading universities and governmentlaboratories

 Based on NIST’s experience with the Nanoelectronics

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AMTech consortia envisioned to: 

 Foster dialogue and create consensus on the top critical issu

industry

 Catalyze and increase industry leadership and participation 

planning and investment 

 Provide active portfolio management of long-term R&D inve

against common platform technologies 

 Accelerate knowledge and technology transfer between indu

AMTech Consortia

 Accelerate knowledge and technology transfer between indu

academia, and government

TELL US HOW THIS SHOULD WORK!NIST published a Federal Register notice on 7/22/2011, seeking inffrom the public about the best ways to structure AMTech program. (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-22/pdf/2011-18580.pdf) 

Comments will be accepted by email only to AMtechRFC@nist.gov Sept. 20, 2011. All comments will be made publicly available. 

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Agenda

• NIST overview and special role with manufactu• PCAST’s Report to the President on Advanced 

Manufacturing

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partn• NIST activities supporting AMP• Public/Private Partnerships - what YOU can do 
Opportunities for YOU tod

• US Manufacturing Image 

• Help educate your local community and leaders• Consider open house/site tours for public, students

• The President’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

• Provide input on participation

• AMP website launched shortly

• Consider participating at AMP Regional Meetings 

• First meeting: October 14th, hosted by Georgia Tech

• The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia

• Provide input to the RFI by October 20th 

• How should AMTech be structured?• Who should be consortia members?• What criteria should be used for AMTech funding proposals?• How should performance and effectiveness be measured? 

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Thank you

Any Questions?

Mike MolnarTelephone: 301-975-2300Email: mike.molnar@nist.gov
Profiles of 

NIST Laboratories and Ce

Supplemental
Core Functions

• Fundamental units • Applied measurements• Calibrations• Metric program• State weights & measures programs

Physical Measurement Labor

JILA

Priorities and Future and Growth Areas• Strengthened metrology• Medical imaging• GHG and Climate measurements• Measurements to support advanced 

photovoltaics

• Science and engineering beyond 

Moore’s Law

November, 2010: JQI FePresidential Early CareeScientists and Engineer
Core Functions

• Material composition & properties• Validated methods & data• Standard reference materials• Laboratory accreditation Priorities and Future Growth Areas

Material Measurement Labo

• Biopharmaceutical manufacturing• GHG and climate measurements• Environmental, health, and safety of 

nanotechnology-based products 

• Food safety and nutrition• Advanced materials for industry – modeling 

and simulation

• Nanomanufacturing

Holling
Core Functions

• IT Measurement, accreditation, and 

testing

• Mathematical and statistical analysis• Modeling and simulation for 

measurement science

• IT standards development and 

Information Technology Labo

deployment

Priorities and Future Growth Areas• Cybersecurity• Cloud computing• Identity management• Computer forensics• Wireless communications• Health IT

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Core Functions

• Building technologies• Fire research• Smart grid & energy technology• Advanced manufacturing technologyPriorities and Future Growth Areas• Sustainable manufacturing

Engineering Laboratory 

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• Net Zero energy, high- performance buildings • Cyberphysical systems • Smart grid• Disaster resilient structures

Building Science Corporation
Core Functions

• Collaborative research & shared-access 

nanofabrication facility

• NanoFab established in 2007• Large & growing industrial and academic 

use base 

Center for Center for Nanoscale Nanoscale Science & Te

Science & Te

Priorities and Future Growth Areas• Battery technology• High-throughput measurement and imaging• Future electronics • NanoFab: Continued investment in state-of-thecommercial-art instrumentation 
Core Functions

• Provide neutron measurement capability to 

US researchers by operating as a national user facility

• Serving 2300 Research Participants annually 

from industry, academia, and government agencies

NIST Center for Neutron Res

Priorities and Future Growth Areas• Complete the expansion of cold neutron 

measurement capacity & capability

• Biology & biotechnology• Soft materials manufacturing• Development of new neutron measurement 

techniques and application to technologically-relevant problems

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