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Robotics Technology Consortium Expands to Become the National Advanced Mobility Consortium

August 5, 2014. The Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC) today announced that it will now be known as the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC) after entering into a section 845 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ. The new OTA greatly expands upon the scope and scale of the current OTA that the RTC was awarded in May 2008 for ground robotics technology. The new OTA covers the entire range of ground systems technologies for manned and unmanned vehicle and robotics systems.

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EXLOG Wargame VII

June 23, 2014. EXLOG Wargame is a USMC annual exercise that typically takes place during the summer months and has been occurring over the last 8 years.  The Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps for Installations and Logistics (DC I&L) is the advocate for the Wargame.  Its purpose is to demonstrate improved Logistics Chain Management (LCM) and Command and Control for Logistics (C2 for Log) operational capabilities in order to guide I&L’s advocacy efforts and future resource investments.

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Great Lakes Manufacturing Forum

May 22, 2014. Participants in the Great Lakes Manufacturing Forum on June 11 and 12 will also have the opportunity at the opening afternoon of The Big M event on June 9 to attend the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 (AMP 2.0) meeting headlined by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. AMP 2.0 is a White House initiative to secure U.S. leadership in emerging technologies that will create high-quality manufacturing jobs and enhance manufacturers’ competitiveness.

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Groundbreaking New Report on Core Manufacturers

May 12, 2014. NCMS is pleased to present Voice of the Customer: Talking and Listening to Backbone Manufacturers, an intimate new perspective on a little-understood sector of the American economy. The first step in a planned national outreach, it was the driving force behind a major industry roundtable hosted by NCMS and Lawrence Tech University.

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Predictive Analytics World Manufacturing Conference

April 11, 2014. The role of data in manufacturing has traditionally been understated. Manufacturing generates about a third of all data today, and this is certainly going to increase significantly in the future. Data forms the backbone of all Digital Manufacturing technologies, which will be the centerpiece of the strategy for advancing Manufacturing in the 21st century.

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MI Robotics Week Kicks Off with Industry Executive Forum

April 8, 2014. To many in the state’s growing automation sector, Michigan Robotics Week is the most important event of the year, a chance to build public awareness of the field and develop new cross-industry opportunities and contacts. Spearheaded since 2010 by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), Robotics Week 2014 kicked off this morning with the first annual Michigan Robotics Industry Executive Forum. More than 100 business leaders and technology innovators participated in the day-long event at the Maneuver Collaboration Center (MC2) on the General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) campus in Sterling Heights.

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Michigan Green Infrastructure Conference

February 26, 2014. Please join the upcoming Green Infrastructure Conference, hosted by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality on May 8-9, 2014 in Lansing, Michigan. This conference includes several panels and keynote speakers that will be discussing what is being done at the federal and state levels to advance Green Infrastructure (GI) including new technologies and best practices.

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