This past summer, the Coordinate Metrology Society (CMS) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte were awarded an Advanced Manufacturing Technology Consortia (AMTech) grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. Established in 2013, the NIST AMTech Program reinforces strategic partnerships between U.S. industry, academia, and government. The program strives to form new industry-led coalitions and strengthen existing ones to tackle shared technical barriers and accelerate the growth of advanced manufacturing.

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