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July 09, 2012

Advancing Innovative Manufacturing Act

H.R. 6081

A bill to accelerate research, development, and innovation in advanced manufacturing, to improve the competitiveness of American manufacturers, and for other purposes.  Objectives include the following: to promote collective public-private efforts to develop key technology platforms and infrastructure for advanced manufacturing, to enable the prioritization of public research portfolios to be more responsive to the long-term technology development needs of industry, to leverage Federal investment in advanced manufacturing with shared investment by the private sector, to increase industrial research and development investment in precompetitive technology platforms and infrastructure, to accelerate technological innovation in advanced manufacturing, and to foster broad participation by industry, the Federal Government, institutions of higher education, and State, local, and tribal governments in advanced manufacturing research and development.