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10/5/2015 Building a High-Tech Future Through Partnerships & Planning: Commerce's NIST Announces $7.8 Million in Advanced Manufacturing Technology Grants | ...

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Building a High-Tech Future ThroughPartnerships & Planning: Commerce'sNIST Announces $7.8 Million inAdvanced Manufacturing TechnologyGrants | Department of Commercecommerce.gov (https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2015/05/building-high-tech-future-through-partnerships-planning-commerces-nist-announces) · by Michael Molnar ·May 7, 2015

The power and performance of the computer chip have improved like clockworkfor half a century, as the number of transistors squeezed on a slice of silicon hasdoubled about every two years. Thanks to the U.S.-led semiconductor industry’salmost formulaic progress, innovation has flourished for decades, enabling asteady stream of ever-more-powerful electronic products and capabilities.

But this reliable rate of progress—set in motion by the 1965 prediction known asMoore’s Law—may be nearing its end. With the number of devices on a chiprunning well into the billions, the semiconductor industry is pushing up againstfundamental physical limits.

Up ahead lies a technology transition where market leadership will be up forgrabs. New rounds of innovation will be needed to blaze another trail, one thatleads to a succession of even more powerful information technologies,themselves sprouting new industries.

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Where these industries take root is a matter of great economic importance.

The SemiSynBio Consortium, one of 16 new partnerships announced today,(http://www.nist.gov/amo/amt-planning-grants.cfm) launched with fundingfrom the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a new U.S.entrant in this high-stakes competition. Led by the non-profit SemiconductorResearch Corporation, SemiSynBio will map a strategic course for researchaimed at new hybrid technologies for collecting, sharing, analyzing and storinginformation.

The consortium’s industry, university and federal-laboratory partners intend tobuild on advances in the control of biological processes, DNA synthesis, nano-manufacturing and design automation. Their quest: novel technologies that willoutperform today’s best silicon-based systems and seed the U.S. economy withentrepreneurial opportunities for start-ups and existing businesses to seize.

SemiSyn’s quest is just one example of the next-generation technologiespursued by the partnerships that just received competitively-awarded grantsfrom NIST’s young Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia(http://www.nist.gov/amo/index.cfm) program. These awards, totaling $7.8million, support industry-driven consortia in developing research plans andcharting collaborative actions to solve high-priority technology challenges.

Overcoming these challenges will accelerate the growth of advancedmanufacturing in the United States.

Thirteen of the funded projects will launch new consortia. All will undertakecollaborative efforts to identify, prioritize and align research and developmentin targeted technology areas. These roadmaps will be platforms from which tomount pre-competitive R&D efforts that will reach for technological advancesand leading-edge manufacturing capabilities.

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The consortia aim to unleash the power of innovation in a range of technologiesand industries. For example:

A partnership led by the American Chemical Society is targeting newseparation technologies that will cut energy use and costs in the chemicalmanufacturing industry.Energy Florida and its partners will develop a strategic action plan foridentifying and certifying new materials that will improve the performanceof gas turbines, which drive much of the power grid.A consortium led by the University of Southern California will lay a coursefor incorporating advances in “smart manufacturing” in the production ofbiomedical devices and equipment.

The new AMTech projects and the 19 collaborations(http://www.nist.gov/director/amtech-050814.cfm) launched during theprogram’s first competition complement other federal investments to propel thenext generation of manufacturing in the United States. For example, NIST andthe National Science Foundation recently announced a solicitation(http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505203) for anorganization to run a technology-focused consortium to provide coordinatedprivate-sector input on national advanced manufacturing technology researchand development priorities.

The key message here is that advanced manufacturing is brimming with excitingnew possibilities. These new consortia will help ensure that the U.S. continues tolead the way in transforming those possibilities into realities.

commerce.gov (https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2015/05/building-high-tech-future-through-partnerships-planning-commerces-nist-announces) · by Michael Molnar ·May 7, 2015

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2015 portfolio sample - press release (strategy, oversight - not author)

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