ASME Congressional Briefing Highlights the DODs Manufacturing...

ASME Congressional Briefing Highlights the DOD's Manufacturing... ASME Congressional Briefing Highlights the DOD's Manufacturing... ASME Congressional Briefing Highlights the DOD's Manufacturing Engineering Education Grant Program Aug. 11, 2017 (Left to right) Congressional Briefing specialists Denise Peppard of Northrop Grumman Corp., Stephan Ezell from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Laine Mears of Clemson University, Laurie Leshin of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Brennan Grignon from the Department of Defense's Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy. On July 25, in excess of 120 Congressional staff and industry partners met at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., for an ASME-supported Congressional Briefing concentrating on the Department of Defenses Manufacturing Engineering Education Grant Program. The board conversation, which was facilitated by the House and Senate Manufacturing Caucuses, included a gathering of topic specialists who examined how the award program will help fortify the U.S. economy and national security, while shielding the seriousness of the U.S. fabricating division. ASME President-Nominee Said Jahanmir, Ph.D., Senior Legislative Fellow in the Office of Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-13), gave inviting comments to the preparation, which was directed by Thomas Kurfess, Ph.D., teacher and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control at Georgia Institute of Technology and co-seat of the ASME Manufacturing Public Policy Task Force. Specialists included Brennan Grignon, program executive in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, Department of Defense; Laurie Leshin, Ph.D., leader of Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laine Mears, Ph.D., teacher and BMW SmartState Chair of Automotive Manufacturing at Clemson University; Stephen Ezell, chief of worldwide development strategy for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF); and Denise Peppard, corporate VP and boss HR official at Northrop Grumman Corp. ASME President-Nominee Said Jahanmir (far right) invited participants to the ASME Congressional Briefing board conversation. Additionally envisioned are (left to right) specialists Laurie Leshin and Brennan Grignon and mediator Thomas Kurfess, co-seat of the ASME Manufacturing Public Policy Task Force. The Manufacturing Engineering Education Grant Program was marked into law in December 2016 as a component of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), along these lines approving the Department of Defense to help industry-important, producing centered, designing preparing at U.S. establishments of advanced education, colleges, industry, and not-revenue driven organizations. Award beneficiaries are chosen through a serious procedure dependent on the benefits of better adjusting their instructive contributions to the requirements of present day U.S. producers. The new program can possibly reinforce national security and increment financial seriousness by improving and modernizing the U.S. modern base. Through this program, understudies, technologists, and makes will be better prepared to fabricate U.S. military gear and innovation locally, ensuring and making sure about the eventual fate of the American Warfighter. The Manufacturing Engineering Education Grant Program is proposed to not just reinforce the U.S. militarys abilities, yet in addition permit the United States to contend with different countries monetarily. In excess of 120 Congressional staff and industry partners went to the Congressional Briefing, which was hung on July 25 in Washington, D.C. In the territory of cutting edge producing, the United States is as of now contending economically against a scope of European and Asian countries for worldwide advancement advantage. Nations, for example, Germany and Austria, who devote a bigger level of their economy to assembling (23 percent and 19 percent, individually) than the United States (12 percent), are seeking after a few workforce improvement activities that call for patching up building educational program and workforce preparing chances to adjust assembling and designing training all the more intimately with the present and future needs of industry. A video recording of the Congressional Briefing is presently accessible on the House Manufacturing Caucus YouTube page at www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuuW1U_7xwA. To get familiar with the House Manufacturing Caucus, visit http://housemanufacturingcaucus-reed.house.gov/115th-congress-occasions. - Samantha Fijacko, ASME Government Relations