(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The first of a planned series of regional workshops to design a proposed $1 billion federal initiative, the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), will be held on April 25, 2012, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

The kick-off meeting, Designing for Impact I: Workshop on Building the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation,” is being organized by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO). The AMNPO is a new, interagency collaboration involving the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Commerce, as well as the National Science Foundation, and is hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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