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Analytic Services Supports DASD MIBP with Assistance on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

Arlington, VA – Last Wednesday, ANSER, an operating unit of Analytic Services, assisted Brett Lambert, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy (MIBP) and Executive Director of the Defense Production Act Committee (DPAC), in hosting the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) Pilot Institute Proposers’ Day. The NNMI is a Presidential initiative to foster a robust domestic base for advanced manufacturing. The impetus for the Proposers’ Day stems from a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory that seeks to establish and sustain an Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute to serve as an NNMI pilot institute. Additive manufacturing employs a rapidly growing set of technologies by which three-dimensional solid objects are produced from a digital file, building the object up in a layer-by-layer fashion. The Pilot Institute would be the first of an anticipated fifteen Institutes that intend to nurture domestic academic, industrial, and federal collaboration on breakthrough and critical manufacturing capabilities.

Held at the Analytic Services Conference Center, the goals of the Proposers’ Day were to: facilitate networking between industry and academia; afford NNMI government stakeholders the opportunity to provide context for writing an effective proposal that meets the requirements of the BAA; and offer the opportunity for contracting officials from Air Force Research Laboratory to answer questions from potential proposers. Approximately 270 participants attended in person or via the web including a diverse portfolio of universities, federal research labs and agencies, along with a full spectrum of small, medium, and large businesses.  Senior guests included: Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Marcel Lettre, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense: and Neal Orringer, Director of Manufacturing in MIBP.

“We’re proud to support this initiative and confident it can assist our industrial base to maintain an international technological edge.   Our Nation has a long history of cultivating cutting edge capabilities using public-private partnerships. Federal research funding to universities and their regional partners yields tangible examples in many centers of innovation across the country,” said Thomas Benjamin, Chief Operating Officer for Analytic Services’ ANSER business unit.

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Analytic Services is a not-for-profit public service institute dedicated to informing decisions that shape the Nation’s future. We provide objective studies and analyses for issues concerning national and homeland security, and to select public policy communities. Capabilities are delivered through our ANSER operating unit, the Applied Systems Thinking (ASysT) Institute, and the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute, a federally funded research and development center, operated on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.