EDA BUILD BACK BETTER REGIONAL CHALLENGE WINNER
The $1 billion challenge provides transformational investments to develop and strengthen regional industry clusters across the country, while embracing equitable economic growth, creating good-paying jobs, and enhancing U.S. global competitiveness.DRIVING ADOPTION: SMART MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
VISION
Empower the equitable adoption of productivity-enhancing emerging technologies for sustainable, precision manufacturing competitiveness and profitability. Will seek to scale resiliency and production velocity through four component projects in the advanced manufacturing sector, specifically in high-precision commercial aviation and defense manufacturing.
REGION SERVED
A consortium of industry, government, and economic development leaders representing 27 counties in South Kansas. The project is led by the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University.
COMPONENT PROJECTS
The four component projects blend human and technological capabilities to power innovation, growth, and resilience.
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Additive Manufacturing |
Future Factory |
| Empower businesses with the tools needed to implement additive manufacturing into their supply chains and in creating “qualified factories” that deliver repeatable, robust parts. | Develop and deploy modernized skills training for high-velocity machining and smart factory technologies that are multi-faceted, flexible, and resilient. |
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Technology & Innovation Building |
Governance, Management & Evaluation |
| Construction of an 85,000-sq ft facility at WSU’s Innovation Campus to deliver high-tech, high-wage, high-demand education for students and incumbent workers in Industry 4.0 technologies. |
Govern the project through an interorganizational network of leaders to guide the data-driven vision with industry-defined, prioritized, and evaluated projects supported by ecosystem data and metrics |
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