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THE LATEST NEWS: Articles in the May 8, 2013
Issue Of Manufacturing & Technology News

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• Without A Strong Manufacturing Sector, The U.S. Struggles To Break Out Of Recession

• Americans Support A Nation-Wide Manufacturing Network But Are Confused About Automation

• European Observation: The U.S. Defense Industry Has Lost Its Political Clout

• Campaign Finance Group Says Senate Internet Tax Vote Was Predicted By Corporate Donations

• Human Space Flight Industry Is Selling Off Its Manufacturing Equipment

• Not Much Activity This Year In Industrial Global Mergers And Acquisitions

• U.S. Is Not Running Out Of Oil Any Time Soon

• Federal R&D Spending Takes A Precipitous Drop

• Consulting Firm Finds U.S. Production Costs Could Soon Be At Parity With China's

• DARPA Awards Prize Under Its Advanced Manufacturing R&D Program

• More Americans Buy Clean Diesels And More Vehicles Are On The Way

• A Million-Man Buy American Movement

• Feds Will Fund Three New Manufacturing Institutes With $200 Million

• Essay: The Only Measurable Factor Of Executive Success Is A Large Vocabulary

• Over Zealous Mine Permitting Hurts U.S. Economic Security

• China Manufacturing Sector Grows A Bit Slower

• Budgets For The Country's 40 Largest National Labs

• ILO: The World Needs 470 Million New Jobs But The Prospects Of Them Being Created Are 'Grim'

Quote Of Note

"The measured English vocabularies of executives correlate with their salaries. This does not mean that every high vocabulary person receives a large salary, but the relation is sufficiently close to show that a large vocabulary is one element of success and seemingly an important one. Furthermore, the executive level which a man or woman reaches is determined to some extent by vocabulary."

-- Johnson O'Connor, founder of the Human Engineering Laboratory in Boston, Mass., and written in February 1934

Web Site Of The Week

"Goods, Services and the Pace of Economic Recovery" an economic research paper from University of California Berkeley, finds that without a strong manufacturing base, the U.S. is having more difficulty recovering from recessions:
http://behl.berkeley.edu/files/2013/02/BEHLWP2013-04_olneypacitti_2-26-13.pdf

Free Stories from Recent Back Issues

MIT Drills Into The Manufacturing Skills Shortage And Finds That It Doesn't Really Exist
(April 19, 2013)

AMIT Drills Into The Manufacturing Skills Shortage And Finds That It Doesn't Really Exist
(March 28, 2013)

MIT: America's Manufacturing Sector Has Lost The Ability To Turn Innovation Into Commercial Production
(March 6, 2013)

For A Pro-Domestic Manufacturing Policy Agenda In Congress, This Might Be The Year
(February 6, 2013)

U.S. Manufacturing Wages Are Stuck In Neutral And Are Not Nearly As Generous As Those In Other Industrialized Countries
(January 15, 2013)

Federal Supply Chain Survey Finds That Any Cut In Space Budgets Could Put A Lot Companies Out Of Business
(December 18, 2012)

Industry, Academia and Research Organizations Wholeheartedly Endorse National Network For Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)
(November 18, 2012)

A Strategic Global Manufacturing Technology Vision Is Central To Germany's Economic Development And Export Plan
(October 31, 2012)

Europe's New Industrial Policy Targets Manufacturing To Spur Economic Turnaround
(October 12, 2012)

Global Semiconductor Industry Has No Plans To Build Factories In The United States
Of the 42 new fabrication plants planned to start construction in the world between 2011 and 2013, only one is in the United States. (September 28, 2012)

U.S. Trade Deficit Continues To Surge, Costing The Country Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs
China's trade surplus will soon reach $1 trillion. (September 4, 2012)

Sequestration Exposes U.S. Dependence On Defense Manufacturing
(August 24, 2012)

Critical And Strategic Materials Industry Has A New Voice In Washington, D.C. Aimed At Countering Multinational Company Bias Against U.S. Producers
(July 24, 2012)

On Russia Free Trade Issue, Big Business Interests Run Against Domestic Manufacturers
(July 6, 2012)

Boeing's Planes Are Riddled With Chinese Counterfeit Electronic Components
(June 15, 2012)

NIST Director Defends $1-Billion Manufacturing Program, But Doesn't Know Where The Money Will Come From
(May 31, 2012)

Everything Is 'Made In The World': WTO Is One Step Closer To Eliminating Country-Of-Origin Labels
(May 14, 2012)

Government Is Pushing Full Speed Ahead On Additive Manufacturing
A contractor for a new $45-million pilot center will be selected by late summer. (April 30, 2012)

Lessons Learned From A Trade Case -- SolarWorld CEO Warns Others To Pay Heed: Your Industry Could Be The Next To Go
(April 15, 2012)

Is Momentum Building For Adopting A New Manufacturing Policy Agenda, Or Is The Interest Due Only To The Upcoming Election?
(March 30, 2012)

Country-Of-Origin Labels Could Change Consumer Behavior And Revive U.S. Manufacturing
(March 15, 2012)

Obama Will Unveil $1-Billion National Manufacturing Innovation Network Initiative Based Upon Germany's Fraunhofer Institute
(February 28, 2012)

China Puts U.S. Auto Industry At Risk: Steel And Auto Unions Tell Uncle Sam To Initiate A Comprehensive Trade Case
(February 8, 2012)

Bye-Bye Baldrige: U.S. Decides Quality Is Not Worth $9 Million
(January 30, 2012)

Stiff Fines And Jail Time For Those Convicted Of Selling Counterfeits To The Military; New Acquisition Regulations Will Be Written
(December 30 2011)

Another U.S. Industry Turns To Trade Law As Its Last Resort And Faces The Wrath of Importers
(November 30, 2011)

Aerospace Executives Say Budget Cuts Imperil Health Of U.S. Defense Industrial Base
(November 18, 2011)

China Is Not A 'Market-Based Economy'; State-Owned Companies Constitute 50 Percent of China's Non-Agricultural Output And Act As The Communist Party's 'Foreign Agents'
(October 31, 2011)

India's Government Will Unveil Strategy To Boost Manufacturing Employment By 100 Million
(October 21, 2011)

European Technocrats May Soon Deprive Americans Of Knowing Where Everything They Buy Is Made
(September 30, 2011)