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2 Keynote Addresses: Perspectives on Manufacturing USA
Pages 7-15

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... Industry partners including Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, DuPont, Ford, New Balance, Boeing, and General Electric all share the institutes' goals of improving supply chains, accelerating innovation, and enabling systems and equipment production, both for their own companies and for the nation. As DoD looks to capitalize on the significant investments made thus far and to continue to advance these crucial goals, Baldwin underscored the value of community input on the manufacturing institutes' past activities and future directions.
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From page 8...
... The Maintaining Technology Advantage directorate prevents and combats exploitation activities. This body shares information with intelligence, counterintel ligence, and law enforcement partners, enabling faster iteration, a better awareness of exploitations or supply chain risks, and an overall presence that is proactive and preventative, rather than reactive and repair-focused.
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From page 9...
... The nation's technological superiority is underpinned by a healthy defense laboratory infrastructure, a robust industrial base, and active industry and academic partnerships. These all require sound investment plans, 1Committee on Technology of the National Science and Technology Council, 2018, Strategy for American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing, White Paper, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Advanced-ManufacturingStrategic-Plan-2018.pdf.
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From page 10...
... . A report commissioned by Executive Order 13806, Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Industrial Base Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States, made suggestions relevant to current manufacturing and supply chain concerns.2 Multiple factors, including budget uncertainties, national policies in competing countries, offshoring, and lack of talent, have created weaknesses in sub-tier defense supply chains.
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From page 11...
... It aims to increase innovation speed and create off-ramps where scientific discoveries can quickly become warfighting equipment. Workforce Development The industrial base is only as good as the people who run it, Baldwin emphasized, and continued talent growth is essential to translating research into technology, transforming technology into warfighting tools, and enabling the United States to retain its global edge.
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From page 12...
... Manufacturing is now one part of the system that creates value from data, and at the heart of that system is operations. Against that backdrop, Wilcox described how Lockheed Martin values its investments in the manufactur ing institutes in terms of four criteria: partnerships, shared investment, standards and supply chain, and customer engagement.
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From page 13...
... In the discussion, Byron Clayton, Advanced Robotics, asked how partnerships could help smaller companies identify supply chain weaknesses. Noting that smaller companies do not always have time or resources to prioritize this challenge, Wilcox suggested that larger companies could help, perhaps through site visits or engagement with chambers of commerce, to identify weaknesses and opportunities for existing bodies to address them.
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From page 14...
... Unions are one of the largest training entities in the United States, but they are not currently involved in the institutes. In response to a question, Wilcox clarified that Lockheed Martin's current urgent need is qualification and certification consistency for advanced manufacturing and cybersecurity.
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From page 15...
... Public–private partnerships have been around for centuries -- Alexander Hamilton was a wellknown proponent -- but there has been no consistent template for success. Creating one for the institutes would have enormous benefits.
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