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Preface: Manufacturing is critical to the nation’s national security and economic well-being. The last 15 years have witnessed the rise of the techno-economic state with competitor nations practicing systematic industrial policy. Nearly all of the leading competitor nations to the United States have detailed national manufacturing strategies that are aligned with their national economic strategies. These strategies integrate industry efforts with government support at critical gaps, including for research, development, and implementation of new manufacturing technologies; for financing the scale-up of these manufacturing technologies; for regional adoption of these technologies; and for workforce development to support them. The United States has various programs along some of these lines, including the Manufacturing USA program. Overall, however, a coordinated strategy for alignment and adoption of advanced manufacturing across agencies and organizations and integrated with industry is missing. It is a critical missing ingredient. Without it, a coherent program for more rapid adoption of new manufacturing technologies into a new system for corresponding economic development is lacking. Each year that it is absent and not being implemented, U.S. production leadership erodes, affecting the nation’s national security and economic well-being.

The task of this committee was to develop a new vision of where the Manufacturing USA program should be in the 2030 to 2035 time period. The report is forward-looking. It notes the current challenges the program faces and then moves to much more detail on what new features and efforts the program should undertake to help meet the manufacturing challenges that the United States faces. To be most effective and productive, the Manufacturing USA program needs to be a part of a formal U.S. Industrial Strategy. Therefore, key findings and recommendations center around the need for the United States to issue a formal industrial strategy, integrating technology development, scale-up financing, standards leadership, trade, and workforce development in a coherent national framework; to form a new governance model that enables collaboration across

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