American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative

1. Roundtable Discussion for this Monday's National Call!

See you Monday for a roundtable discussion which means ... come ready with your burning issues, new strategies, and/or program offerings that could add value to the collective network, e.g. what in this AMCC Update is adding value to your work? would else would? Let's talk about it. And if this is your first time joining a Monday Call, or you have been lurking for a while, consider this Monday to come on camera for a minute or two and say who you are and how you can add/receive value from the group, thanks! We'll also provide some recap from our awesome events this week in Illinois and California - see you Monday! Past Monday calls are available here. If you have folks you think should be included in the weekly invitation, please invite them and connect them with our Operations Director, David Van Siclen.

2. CA's Inland Empire Roadshow 2025 Recap

Wow, what an amazing AMCC Roadshow we co-hosted with so many great partners this past Wednesday. Over one hundred manufacturing stakeholders, to include manufacturers, attended the daylong event hosted at California Baptist University. The event reinforced the activities of the Inland Empire's regional collaborative, organized through Thrive SoCal's role as the regional convener of the California Jobs First program. As we've reported (and will continue to describe as a best practice!), this state-wide bottom-up intervention approach involves identifying thirteen subregions within the state with each producing bottom-up economic development strategies; eleven of which feature manufacturing as a core growth opportunity. Those regional strategies have informed the recent state Blueprint report that will serve as their north star of progress for the Golden State. And, those regional strategies have all been accepted by the Department of Commerce as Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies, way to go CA!

Riverside Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson initiated the day's events setting the stage for for some real magic when regional stakeholders actively engaged to understand manufacturer needs, and in real time, started a process to bring together manufacturing ecosystem of support resources to improve workforce/business/environmental outcomes in a collaborative process. Inland Empire Growth & Opportunity's (IEGO) Executive Director, Matthew Mena, led a panel with three manufacturers in the region, Ryvid, Voltu, and PCC Hydrogen, and heard how the ecosystem was helping them grow and improve their businesses. We also heard from Thrive SoCal co-leaders at the Inland Empire Labor Institute, UAW and its Center for Manufacturing a Green Economy, AFL-CIO, Machinists Institute, UC Riverside, and California Baptist University about their manufacturing ecosystem of support trust-building approach toward mutually beneficial outcomes for manufacturers, labor, and the community. AMCC BFFs Stacy Cumberbatch with Blended Impact and Ryvet's Andrew Anson then led the interactive resource-building workshop with well over a dozen different organizations sharing their capabilities to include AmPac Business Capital (an SBA lender), CMTC (the state's MEP), and the Manufacturers' Council of the Inland Empire. Thanks to all our partners for the exceptional day together!

The trick now, as it is with every region working to co-create a stronger ecosystem of support, is how will this region build a durable regional structure that maintains the momentum over time? As we do with every region across the country that wants to work on this bottom-up approach, AMCC looks forward to continuing to elevate the IE and other CA regions!

3. 2025 NSTC Workforce Awards Program Call for Proposals

Thanks to AMCC Senior Advisor Matthew Fieldman for sharing this opportunity published by Natcast, a non-profit designated by DOC to operate the national Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) funded via CHIPS Act. This year's workforce awards program will invest in semiconductor industry-related training and educational support activities that accelerate domestic chip production and supply chain efforts. Natcast will be making between 10-20 awards of up to $2M to organizations focused on building the semiconductor workforce. These programs are expected to start in 2026, with an initial submission intent form due by August 11th, and then full proposal due by October 15th. Learn more here!

4. Reminder: EDA Disaster Supplemental Grant Program

This week, the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration announced a notice of funding opportunity for their FY25 Disaster Supplemental Grant Program. With over $1.4B available for communities and regions that experienced major natural disasters in 2023 and 2024, the program would fund economic recovery activities along three tracks - Readiness, Implementation, and Industry Transformation. The industry transformation path appears specifically relevant for AMCCers as it calls for applicants that are "Coalition-led, multi-project portfolios that transform regional economies through targeted industry development." More information to come on this opportunity as we investigate further. EDA is accepting proposals on a rolling basis into March 2026, but make sure to review the program page and the NOFO specifics ASAP!

5. Manufacturing Momentum Webinars Continue...This time thanks to RTI!

Our friends and partners at RTI International are jumping in to provide support leading up to August's Manufacturing Momentum Summit in Detroit with an upcoming webinar on the importance of leveraging public-private-nonprofit partnerships to strengthen regional manufacturing readiness! RTI has tapped Connecticut's manufacturing leader Paul Lavoie and Texas A&M's John Peterson to give two state perspectives on how to get manufacturing partnerships right to accelerate progress. Thanks to RTI and our partners at CREC, register for the webinar here, set to take place on June 26th at 1pm ET!

6. NOCO Manufacturing Partnership Event in October

For AMCCers in Colorado and surrounding states, our new friends from our recent visit to Denver shared their upcoming Rocky Mountain Advanced Manufacturing EXPO, which will bring the manufacturing community ecosystem of Northern Colorado and surrounding states together to expand collaboration, network, and accelerate the delivery of services manufacturers need to thrive. If you're in the area, learn more about the event here, scheduled for October 7-8, thanks!

7. Northeast Midwest Institute on PFAs Protection for Firefighters

AMCC partners at the Northeast Midwest Institute highlighted this bipartisan Protecting Firefighters and Advancing State‑of‑the‑Art Alternatives Act, which aims to phase out PFAS firefighter turnout gear (PFAs are so‑called “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and other health risks) and replace them with safer, PFAS‑free alternatives. It also allocates funding for development, testing, training, and collaboration with first responders to ensure gear is functional and contamination‑safe. As for manufacturing PFAs free equipment, perhaps another opportunity for US manufacturers to deliver new products that solve problems and keep our firefighters safe from long-term adverse health effects, thanks NEMWI!

8. New Manufacturing an American Century Podcast coming next week!

We'll have a new episode out next week as we get back from successful in-person events in Illinois and California. In the meantime, make sure to listen to our recent episod with Tennessee's Chuck Shoopman. Past episodes are available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also of interest heading into next year's 250th anniversary of the Declaration, here's my past podcast What's America's Purpose for you to enjoy!

9. AMCC and NAM Exploring Deeper Collaboration!

Thanks to NAM COO Todd Boppell for meeting with us again today to explore deeper collaborations beyond our existing AMCC/NAM collaboration to help co-create a Maritime Ecosystem Exchange. That Exchange is a new national structure helping regions key to the Maritime Industrial Base have a forum for building meaningful relationships that lead to co-created collaborative narratives and evidence-based strategies and actions that result in better and faster military and civilian ship production. More updates on it and other potential AMCC/NAM collaborations coming soon!

10. Ongoing Requests for Feedback

Thanks for taking a few minutes to give feedback on our Manufacturing Community Ecosystem Metrics Playbook 1.0 which is co-created with NIST MEP, AMCC, Deloitte, and lots of federal agency partners. How can we improve it and attract others developing similar free open-source ecosystem assessment tools and playbooks? And, here's our general feedback form - please let us know how AMCC activities could be improved to better support your work, thank you!

11. Recent Federal Funding Announcements and Guides

(Updated: 6/13/2025 thanks to David, updates highlighted, be sure to study the announcements carefully to confirm due dates and if the program remains active).

• (Notice) DOE $8M Distributed Energy Resources Interconnection Solutions Collaborative
• (Rolling) DOC EDA FY25 Disaster Supplemental
• (Due 6/14/25) NIST Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II
• (Due 6/18/25) DOE Circular Supply Chains Accelerator
• (Due 6/30/25) DOE Collaborations Advancing Rapid Load Additions (CARLA)
• (Due 7/1/25) NIST NICE RAMPS $3.2M for Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development
• (Due 7/3/25) DOD OLDCC $100M Defense Community Infrastructure Program
• (Rolling) DOC NIST Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs
• (Due 7/8/25) NSF Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies
• (Due 8/29/25) DOD Navy STEM Education and Workforce Program FY25
• (Rolling Applications) DOE Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) Ready
• Department of Commerce NIST Precision Measurement Grant Program
• (Due 11/24/25) NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
• (Due 12/1/25) NSF $34M Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
• (Due 6/2/25) DOD DARPA Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement

12. Selected Research and Items from Andrew Reamer with the Industry Studies Association, and other sources (mostly thanks to David!):

• Trump Administration released an EO on expanding the manufacturing, deployment and use of drones.
• Also, from last week, information on aluminum and steel tariff adjustments.
• Small Business Administration released a notice of intent to establish its Manufacturing in America Advisory Committee.
• GAO released a report with recommendations to the Departments of Commerce, Defense and Energy to support Manufacturing USA Institutes in achieving their national goals.
• Here's an interesting opinion piece from WSJ, on the need for an industrial policy for the nonprofit sector.
• From RAND, a report on China's supply chain dominance and its implications for the U.S. defense industrial base.
• Here are several good reports from Deloitte:
• US energy and chemicals workforce: Transforming for a resilient future
• From manufacturing to medicine: How digital twins can unlock new industry advantages
• Restoring American mineral dominance with a US critical minerals action plan
• And, some reports and resources from OECD:
• Quantifying industrial strategies 2019-2022
• An institutional framework for industrial policies
• OECD Supply Chain Resilience Review
• A comprehensive overview of the Energy Intensive Industries ecosystem
• Here's a good read and perspective on CHIPS Act goals vs. its implementation to-date.
• CRS updated two relevant primers for your review, first on SBA Disaster Loan Program, then on Nuclear Energy Tax Credits.
• Two links to the Federal Register, first on the use of the Defense Production Act for manufacturing and defense industrial base actions for munitions and minerals. The second from DOC EDA on workforce metrics.
• Here's an article on major design changes likely to be required of the Constellation-class Frigate.
• Here's a report from Boston Consulting on the green growth opportunity for heavy industry.
• And, two reports from the Rhodium Group:
• Three Key Outcomes of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on US Manufacturing and Innovation
• Transatlantic Clean Investment Monitor: A Perspective on Electric Vehicles
• Relevant Events
• NACo's Building Resilient Economies in Coal Communities webinar related to manufacturing on June 25th at 2pm ET.
• University of London will host a webinar on Building State Capacity for a Green Transition on June 19th.
• Tariff News & Resources:
• Congressional Budget Office releases a report on budgetary and economic effects of tariff increases.
• From the Hudson Institute, on Assessing Trump's Trade and Tariff Policies.
• From Reuters, on aviation safety concerns cited by aerospace and airline industries as result of tariffs.
• Boston Consulting Group reflects how CEOs are trying to continue to wait and see before moving forward with tariff-related price adjustments.
• PIIE released this guide on the timeline of 2025 tariffs.
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York assesses how businesses are absorbing or passing on the cost of tariff to customers.

That's it for now, Onward!

Matt Bogoshian

Executive Director

matt.bogoshian@amccmail.org

831-601-9509

David Van Siclen

Operations Director

david.vansiclen@amccmail.org

925-984-6169

P.S. As we carry out our work, let's remember to use America's National Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing. to inform next steps, a strategy that fits within the larger U.S. National Security Strategy. Here also is our National Defense Industrial Strategy.

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