Advanced Manufacturing
The Advanced Manufacturing program funds research to enhance American manufacturing, drive national prosperity, and promote innovative technologies transforming manufacturing capabilities and practices to ensure global leadership in areas such as manufacturing systems, materials processing, and cybermanufacturing.
Funder: National Science Foundation
Due Dates: Proposals accepted anytime (no fixed deadline)
Funding Amounts: No set minimum or maximum; award size and duration are based on project scope and justification
Summary: Supports fundamental, multidisciplinary research to advance and transform American manufacturing, with emphasis on national prosperity, security, and global leadership.
Key Information: Proposals of all sizes considered; applicants are encouraged to contact program directors before submission.
Description
The Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program from the National Science Foundation funds fundamental research aimed at revitalizing American manufacturing, growing national prosperity and workforce, and reshaping strategic industries. The program seeks to accelerate advances in manufacturing technologies, with a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary and convergent research that can fundamentally alter and transform manufacturing capabilities, methods, and practices.
Research proposals should address issues related to national prosperity and security, and contribute to advancing knowledge that sustains U.S. global leadership in manufacturing. The program encourages projects that cross traditional domain boundaries and bring manufacturing to new application areas, including those outside the customary manufacturing portfolio.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Manufacturing systems
- Materials processing
- Manufacturing machines and equipment
- Methodologies
- Manufacturing across length scales
- Cybermanufacturing systems
- Nanomanufacturing
Interdisciplinary and convergent proposals are especially welcome, as are projects that incorporate novel challenges and approaches to broaden the impact of advanced manufacturing research in the U.S.
