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Report Identifies Three Key R&D Priorities for Future Manufacturing

A new report, Manufacturing the Future: Federal Priorities for Manufacturing R&D, outlines research and development priorities for the future of three critical high-tech U.S. manufacturing areas: hydrogen energy technologies, nanomanufacturing, and intelligent and integrated manufacturing.

The report was prepared by the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Manufacturing R&D of the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) Committee on Technology. It cites the three manufacturing areas as being important to U.S. economic and national security and identifies them as potentially leveraging scientific and technological advances to transform knowledge and materials into valuable products.

Click here to view the report.

To view a press release about the report, visit http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/manufacturing.html