In june, 2011, president obama launched the advanced manufacturing partnership (AMP), a national initiative bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging…

In june, 2011, president obama launched the advanced manufacturing partnership (AMP), a national initiative bringing together industry, universities, and the federal government to invest in emerging technologies that will create high quality manufacturing jobs and enhance our global competitiveness. Investing in technologies, such as information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, will support the creation of good jobs by helping U.S. Manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development. The president's plan leverages existing federal programs where each agency will make available their technical expertise and technologies to the manufacturing sector via contracts and cooperative agreements. The president believes that even as we live within our means, we must invest to win the future. Investments will be made in the following key areas: building domestic manufacturing capabilities in critical national security industries; reducing the time needed to develop advanced materials used in manufacturing products; establishing U.S. Leadership in next-generation robotics; increasing the energy efficiency of manufacturing processes; and developing new technologies that will dramatically reduce the time required to design, build, and test manufactured goods. Leading universities and companies will compliment these federal efforts by helping to invent, deploy and scale cutting-edge technologies. The AMP is being developed based on the recommendation of the president's council of advisors on science and technology (pcast), which released a report, entitled ensuring leadership in advanced manufacturing. The pcast report calls for a partnership between government, industry, and academia to identify the most pressing challenges and transformative opportunities for improving the technologies, processes and products across multiple manufacturing industries. The advanced manufacturing initiative (AMI) is a NASA office of the chief technologist (OCT) effort being worked with the white house to foster public/private partnerships between the federal government and private industry in the areas of 1) additive manufacturing, 2) advanced technology support/access to small and medium manufacturer, and 3) regional academic support to local schools and universities. NASA glenn has a long history of partnering with companies and universities to develop and commercialize new advanced technologies that have been the foundation of our nation s economic success from communications, to household products, the jet engine, and the internet. The AMI will provide the platform for similar breakthroughs in the next decade, by providing small and medium manufacturers access to NASA advanced technologies and subject matter experts (SME) that will speed up the process of taking ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor, scaling-up first-of-a-kind technologies, and developing the infrastructure and shared facilities to allow small and mid-sized manufacturers to innovate and compete. This cooperative agreement is being negotiated solely with the manufacturing advocacy & growth network (magnet) a regional non-profit organization for advanced manufacturing in northern ohio. Magnet is the only northern ohio regional provider of manufacturing extension partnership (MEP) services funded by the U.S. Department of commerce's nationalinstitute of standards and technology. This agreement will be a pilot partnership between NASA and magnet. NASA will be utilizing two of magnet's partnership vehicles to allow small and medium-sized manufacturers access to NASA's smes, advanced technologies and facilities. To accomplish this, NASA will partner with magnet to use their adopt-a-city and prism programs. The adopt-a-city program is a city of cleveland and cuyahoga county sponsored program that is orchestrated by magnet. Under this agreement, magnet will run the adopt-a-city program. This includes advertisement, solicitatio