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Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Executive Summary
Pages 1-6

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... industrial base, which is often driven by advanced manufacturing technologies. The Manufacturing USA institutes are considered crucial and game-changing catalysts that are bringing together innovative ecosystems in various technology and market sectors critical to DoD and the nation.
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... Next Steps Toward Continuation of DoD-Sponsored In stitutes. Based on the committee's finding that the institutes provide value of benefit to DoD goals, the committee recommends that DoD conduct a formal review of each institute to support decisions on renewing, re-competing, or canceling current agreements.
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... Assuming implementa tion of the recommended formal review, the study committee developed five business model options for DoD's long-term engagement with its existing and potential future institutes: • Option A -- Current model with planned reduction in DoD support for core activities based on the projected Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Manufacturing Technology (ManTech)
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... Thus, in addition to improved outreach to small and medium-size enterprises, efforts should be made both to understand the barriers to adoption of these technologies in supply chains and to work with partners to overcome those barriers.1 • Advancing best workforce education practices. DoD Manufacturing USA institutes should be encouraged to collaborate in developing optimal and more joint workforce development efforts, including taking advantage of online and related technologies.
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... The committee recommends top-level commu nication from the undersecretaries for research and engineering and A&S to the appropriate service and agency leaders to raise visibility of the institutes and to request points of contact for the OSD ManTech office to work with. For S&T, this senior-level communication should facilitate connections to explore intersections in technology roadmaps between DoD S&T roadmap leaders and the institutes.
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... We think that institutes have a role to play here now and into the future, and we look very much forward to the outcomes of your study. Kristen Baldwin, Deputy Director, Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation, DoD Research and Engineering Enterprise, January 28, 2019 The committee acknowledges that the breadth of the proposed topics may be more than a single committee can undertake in a single study.
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