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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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Obama also launched a competition for a new manufacturing innovation institute to build US strength in manufacturing advanced composites, the first of four new competitions to be launched this year. There are significant challenges to integrate this ‘digital thread’ across different manufactured technologies and across the supply chain.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Building Efficiency (3 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Renewable Power (4 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Nebraska – Lincoln). American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost. advanced low cost and efficient thermal storage for solar and.

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