Recently added articles from Manufacturing & Technology News:
A problem that doesn't exist: an education crisis that is impacting U.S. competitiveness.
Nov 17, 2009 ... The popular argument among businessmen and politicians that the United States has lost its competitiveness due to a lousy educational system and that the country is not producing enough scientists and engineers is false, according to researchers at Georgetown University and Rutgers ....
Emerson Electric votes with its feet.
Nov 17, 2009 ... One of the country's most important industrial companies says the United States is not a good place to manufacture and it will continue moving its assets offshore. The federal government is "doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing," says ...
National Defense University study recommends DOD step into the manufacturing policy void.(Report)
Nov 17, 2009 ... For the sake of U.S. national security, the federal government and the Department of Defense must stop ignoring the decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector and put in place policies that reinvigorate American production. That is the recommendation from the 2009 Manufacturing Industry ...
Defense Aerospace confronts a new era of retrenchment.
Nov 17, 2009 ... Over the past decades there have been numerous warnings issued about the plight of the U.S. defense aerospace industrial base, and calls for action to avert the loss of capability. "They are not always right about this, but, in the case of the industrial base supporting American airpower ...
States face massive budget shortfalls.
Nov 17, 2009 ... State budgets are not recovering from the deepest recession since the 1930s. The 50 states are expected to face a budget shortfall of $178 billion in fiscal year 2010, "the largest gaps on record," says the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The shortfall represents 26 percent of ...