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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Joseph Helble, Dartmouth; Richard Benson, Virginia Tech

Legislative UpdateFocus on:National manufacturing initiatives;Reauthorization of the COMPETES act;The federal budget outlook.Presented by:Richard Benson, Virginia Tech, andJoseph Helble, Dartmouth For Discussion only not for distribution 1 The “Secret Decoder Ring” for Manufacturing Initiatives• NNMI = National Network for Manufacturing Innovation;• MII = Manufacturing Innovation Institute;• NAMII = National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute;• PCAST = President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology;• AMP = Advanced Manufacturing Partnership. 2Call to Establish a National Network ofManufacturing Innovation Institutes (MII

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Martin Schmidt; Theresa Kotanchek

Capturing Domestic CompetitiveAdvantage in Advanced Manufacturing Martin Schmidt-MIT Theresa Kotanchek-Dow Chemical 1Manufacturing’s Multiplier Effect Economic Activity Generated by $1 of Sector Output Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Input-Output Tables; www.bea.gov/1Table/indes_industry.cfmEmployment Trends Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, 1962-2010; www.bls.gov/ces/tables,htm#eeWorld Manufacturing OutputPercentage Loss in Manufacturing Jobs:2000-2010 R. Atkinson,et.al., Worse Than The Great Depression: What Experts 5 Are Missing About American Manufacturing Decline, ITIF, March

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Thomas R Kurfess

Manufacturing, the Road to SuccessThomas R. Kurfess, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Director for Advanced ManufacturingWhite House Office of Science & Technology Policy ASEE 2013 Dean’s Colloquium on Public Policy Washington, DC February 12, 2013 1/ 7 S&T as Presidential Priority“Reaffirming America’s role asthe global engine of scientificdiscovery and technologicalinnovation has never been morecritical. …Our renewedcommitment to science andtechnology … will help usprotect our citizens andadvance U.S. national securitypriorities.” –National Security Strategy, May 2010 2/ 7 Some Initiatives Related to Advanced

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Sridhar Kota

Manufacturing Base Free & Fair Trade S. Kota“Bell Labs” of yesteryearsGerman Fraunhofer Inst.Taiwan’s ITRI S. Kota 1. Closing the Innovation GapLaunch an Advanced Manufacturing Initiative to support:• Innovation in advanced manufacturing through appliedresearch program for promising new technologies,• PPPs around broadly-applicable and pre-competitivetechnologies,• the creation and dissemination of design methodologiesthat drastically decrease time to make products, and• shared technology infrastructure to support advances inexisting manufacturing industries. • $1 billion (DOE, DOD, NIST and NSF) to establish a National

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Donald J Leo

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Ruben G Carbonell

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Mike Molnar

Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office 2013 Engineering Deans Council Public Policy ColloquiumVision of the NNMI $1 billion proposal: “institutes of manufacturing excellence where some of our most advanced engineering schools and our most innovative manufacturers

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Tobin Smith

Congress (Sept 1, 2012): 220 Public Laws--80th Congress (1947-1948) 900 Public Laws The Fiscal Climate• Reducing the deficit is the top priority for both Rs & Ds• Increasing ‘revenues’ not viewed favorably by Republicans• Entitlement reform not viewed favorably by Democrats• Sequestration has become a real possibility• Science has been protected, but… Key Fiscal Decision Points• House Republicans extend action on the debt for three months until May 19.• Absent some preventative legislative action, sequestration will occur March 1.• The current six-month Continuing Resolution funding the federal government expires March 27.• House and Senate leaders plan to consider budget resolutions for FY14 that include