Manufacturing & Technology News articles from August 2005

Manufacturing & Technology News archives from August 2005

Heritage Foundation says Congress, DOD should learn to live with globalization: are free markets the best way to preserve defense industrial base?
August 8, 2005... The debate over what to do about the U.S. defense industrial base is intensifying, as more components and subsystems that make up the U.S. arsenal are being supplied by foreign factories. But the worry is misplaced, argues the Heritage...

National Academies to create a national technology agenda.
August 8, 2005... The National Academies of Sciences is putting together a blueprint that Congress can follow to assure that the United States continues as a science and technology powerhouse. The internally funded project titled "Prospering in the Global...

Grand strategy needed to save materials R&D.
August 8, 2005... A federally formulated national strategy for maintaining U.S. access to research and development in materials science and engineering (MSE) conducted abroad is needed to preserve the nation's security and economic well-being amid the current...

Tokyo's trade strategy sacrifices neither workers nor high-tech leadership.(GUEST EDITORIAL)
August 8, 2005... For more than a decade now we have been told that the world's most advanced economies face a common fate in this era of Chinese economic expansion: massive layoffs in manufacturing and ever-rising trade deficits. Indeed, if American press...

Mfg. Extension Association picks president.
August 8, 2005... The recently created American Small Manufacturers Coalition has hired its first leader. The Washington, D.C.-based group, a follow-on to the now closed Modernization Forum in Michigan has selected Carrie Hines from a pool of 85 applicants as...

Private sector groups coalesce behind S&T education push.
August 8, 2005... Assuming the tough task of moving policy makers and the public to action in the absence of a fullblown crisis, a group of 15 U.S. business organizations has launched a national campaign aimed at doubling within 10 years the number of bachelor's...

RAND: a bottoms-up study of U.S. defense industrial base.
August 8, 2005... The RAND Corp. has initiated a study on the health of U.S. defense industrial base. The effort, which should be completed in the next couple of months, is taking a bottom-up perspective of the industry and is focusing on small support...

Book review: outsourcing is not an economic plus.
August 8, 2005... "We need to change the way we think about economics," declare Ron Hira and Anil Hira near the end of Outsourcing America, their recently published analysis of the United States' prospects for retaining high-skill jobs and, with them, its...

EPI: taking on proponents of outsourcing.
August 8, 2005... A trio of influential studies singled out by Ron and Anil Hira in their book Outsourcing America for contributing to the distortion of U.S. public debate over offshoring received a fresh pummeling last week in a report released by the Economic...

Date set for national innovation summit.
August 8, 2005... December 6 has been chosen as the date and Washington, D.C., as the place for the "national conference on science, technology, trade, and manufacturing" called in May by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) to "help develop a blueprint for American science...