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From page 1... ... The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to perform a follow-on study to its 2019 report Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes,1 which examined DoD's strategic relationship with the DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. The report listed a number of recommendations and suggested topics for additional study. Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... The interim report for this study focused on protocols for long-term engage ment assessments for the DoD MIIs, which is Task 1 of the study charge. It found that support for the DoD MIIs remains high among senior leadership at DoD, but the declining budget request for core funding will require difficult decisions. Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... and the Joint Defense Manufacturing Council should expand the evaluation framework within its four topic areas to consider additional strategic considerations focused on the Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) key objectives of advancing research, education and workforce development, and ecosystem. Read the entire page →
From page 4... ... It also found that, because DoD MIIs vary in the nature, maturity, and intended use of their focused technology, each MII and its stakeholders need to identify the shared challenges, shared opportunities, and technology transition and production risks in the ecosystem that they wish to develop, grow, and maintain. In addition, the committee observed that regional ecosystems and supply chains for implementation of advanced manufacturing are important, and noted that NIST's Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Read the entire page →
From page 5... ... Recommendation 2.3: To ensure effective and broad-based deployment and adoption of the technologies and workforce developed by the MIIs and the strengthening of manufacturing ecosystems, OSD ManTech should assist MIIs in forming strong partnerships with other federally-recognized re gional ecosystems, as well as the federal offices that promote these ecosys tems, including the state-level Manufacturing Extension Partnerships, the Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program hubs, and their fed eral offices (the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership and DoD's Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, respectively) Read the entire page →
From page 6... ... In the areas of curricula and program development, of content development and of scaling up programs to meet needs, the committee notes a number of prom ising approaches for MIIs, as detailed in Chapter 3. Many opportunities could be explored within the MII program to build up and strengthen the nation's manu facturing workforce, and the committee makes the following recommendation: Recommendation 3.1: OSD ManTech should encourage preferred approaches for workforce education delineated in this report and listed in the above find ings be included by MIIs through the best practices set out in the interim report: forming regional engagements around workforce education needs; developing education materials with the MII's education and industry eco system; developing, with industry and education institution involvement, knowledge, skill, and ability elements and corresponding competencies; working with industry to develop or apply industry-recognized credentials; developing online education materials available to industry and educational institutions, and mapping skill demand and in developing skill roadmaps. Read the entire page →
From page 7... ... Recommendation 3.3: OSD and the MIIs should strengthen MII engage ment with the DoD organic industrial base by identifying, encouraging, adopting and generalizing best practices (such as the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing partnership with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex through the Joint Robotics Organization for Building Organic Technolo gies) across the MIIs. Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... Online education and related blended learning should become a significant focus of institute education and workforce development efforts, including their efforts with their regional manufacturing ecosystems, because of its potential to scale up skills training in their advanced manufacturing fields. This should in clude support by OSD ManTech for the following: institute use of new edu cational technologies such as computer gaming, simulations, blockchain certifications, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) Read the entire page →
From page 9... ... DoD's MII Strategic Communications and Outreach Plan is well structured to increase stakeholder awareness of MIIs, but it does not provide a strategy for direct engagement. In particular, although the stakeholder list is extensive, it omits two important federal interagency groups: Manufacturing USA and the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing. Read the entire page →
From page 10... ... The Guide should identify the contractual vehicles available for contracting with the MII organizations, explain the unique capabilities and benefits of the DoD MIIs to the broader DoD science and technology, acquisition, and sustainment communities, and provide a starting point for engaging stakeholders to sponsor work at DoD MIIs. Recommendation 4.2: OSD ManTech should develop a formal strategy of engagement with the science and technology (S&T) Read the entire page →
From page 11... ... DoD should actively engage members of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing (NSTC SAM) to raise awareness of the MIIs and their roadmaps, identify common priorities in the technology focus areas of the MIIs, and discover actionable paths forward (including contracting mechanisms) Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... In general, the committee observes that strengthening the nation's advanced manufacturing workforce will contribute to the resilience of our supply chains, which were stressed by the pandemic. Success in this area will require interagency collaboration and partnership. Read the entire page →
From page 13... ... The Regional Workforce Development Initiative project for Smarter Manufacturing highlighted the opportunity to develop a labor market analytics tool that would allow the MIIs to regularly review, understand and respond to rapidly evolving demand for advanced manufacturing technical skills. Read the entire page →
From page 14... ... These efforts should identify which roles can be executed remotely and which roles require regional focus and presence. Recommendation 5.4: OSD ManTech should sponsor expansion of the MII Career Pathways analysis to create a national map of regional advanced manufacturing workforce needs. Read the entire page →
From page 15... ... citizens trained to support the development of cutting-edge military systems and advanced manufacturing technologies. Read the entire page →

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... The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to perform a follow-on study to its 2019 report Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes,1 which examined DoD's strategic relationship with the DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. The report listed a number of recommendations and suggested topics for additional study.

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