Manufacturing & Technology News articles from May 2006

Manufacturing & Technology News archives from May 2006

Mfg. job growth in China is headed up, not down; 109 million mfg. workers.(Good Luck Competing Against Chinese Labor Costs)
May 2, 2006... Job growth in China's manufacturing sector is not declining, as was widely reported by the Conference Board last June. If manufacturing jobs were declining in China, where manufacturing is growing, then it would not be so bad if they were...

Don't expect boost in R&D, Frist's budget chief tells AAAS.
May 2, 2006... The chief budget adviser to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has warned that next year's funding for President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) is in doubt amid the current "standoff in the Congress over the 2007...

Hundreds of defense contractors are using illegal foreign metals in weapons systems.
May 2, 2006... Hundreds of contractors are supplying the Department of Defense with products that are made with specialty metals from foreign producers, breaking a "Buy American" law that has been on the books for 65 years. As of April 27, 274 companies...

Report to Congress: a new structure is needed to create a 'Grand Strategy'.
May 2, 2006... A broad new approach to governance and industry--a "grand strategy"--is necessary for the United States to remain a viable military and economic superpower, according to a report commissioned by Rep. Don Manzullo (D-Ill.), chairman of the House...

Most industries are losing market share to imports.
May 2, 2006... Almost every major industrial sector in the United States has lost market share to imports over the past seven years, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data done by Alan Tonelson of the United States Business and Industry Council...

George Allen creates Senate Competitiveness Caucus.
May 2, 2006... Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), who is facing a potentially tough election bid this year, is launching a Senate Economic Competitiveness Caucus aimed at providing what he describes as "a sprawling, unorganized coalition of Senators who support a...

National Electrical Manufacturers Association.(PEOPLE)
May 2, 2006... Stephen Gold has left his post at the National Association of Manufacturers, where he was in charge of the Council of Manufacturing Associations. Gold has taken a job as senior vice president of Operations for the National Electrical...

AFLAC.(PEOPLE)
May 2, 2006... Bradley Knox, the always ebullient chief counsel on the House Small Business Committee and one of the most involved people on Capitol Hill on manufacturing issues, is leaving his post. Knox is taking a job as director of government relations...

China starts to blame multinationals for its dismal environmental record.
May 2, 2006... The environmental situation in China is bad and is not expected to improve, due to rapid growth of manufacturing production and the rising demand for energy, according to experts testifying before the United States-China Economic and Security...

Are 800 million Chinese peasants on the threshold of opportunity or oblivion?
May 15, 2006... Social unrest in China is growing at a fast rate, but what it means for the political stability of the country is up for debate. Last year, the Chinese reported 87,000 "mass incidents," of unrest, or about 240 per day. This is up from...

Japan breaks out of its slump and invests to regain its lead.
May 15, 2006... Japan has broken out of its "prolonged economic downturn" and is implementing a strategy that calls for innovation by its manufacturers to boost it back to the top rung of trading nations, the country's minister of state for Science and...

Advanced Technology Program board perplexed by NIST's decision to shut down.
May 15, 2006... The Commerce Department's long-embattled Advanced Technology Program (ATP) last year began implementing a "phasedown plan" under which around one-quarter of its employees have voluntarily left the program or given notice of their intent to do...

Air Force Lt. Col. questions future of aerospace industry.
May 15, 2006... The U.S. aerospace industrial base is "on the brink" of extinction, argues Air Force Lt. Col. David King. "Short-term budget decisions imperil the long-term viability" of the industry, he states in the Spring 2006 edition of "Air & Space Power...

House approves defense materials protection board.
May 15, 2006... The House Armed Services Committee continues to be concerned about the health of the U.S. defense industrial base. But instead of taking the more controversial tack of mandating the purchase of weapons, parts and components from U.S. suppliers,...

NASA's R&D programs are in perpetual decline.
May 15, 2006... NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), long an important contributor to the strength of U.S. aircraft manufacturing, is in imminent danger of finding itself "on a glide path to irrelevance," according to a report released this...

Science Academy says it's not worth figuring out foreign content of U.S. exports.
May 15, 2006... It is impossible to try to determine the foreign content of U.S. exports and the U.S. content of foreign imports, the National Academies of Sciences has concluded. Congress asked the Academies to study the issue, due to growing concern about...

Defense Science Board says ManTech is key to reducing cost of weapons.(Interview)
May 15, 2006... The Defense Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) program needs a big shot in the arm, according to the Defense Science Board (DSB). The ManTech program must be given greater resources and support in order to help solve a myriad of "pervasive"...

Calendar of upcoming events.(Calendar)
May 15, 2006... It's time to get out and refresh yourself--discover new markets, product ideas, places and people. Below you will find a list of events that are of interest to a wide segment of the community. If you are sponsoring an event, please send us your...

Recent report, studies, resources.
May 15, 2006... EXPORT PROMOTION: TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE'S ROLE REMAINS LIMITED finds that between 2002 and 2006 the federal government's trade promotion related budget dropped by about one-third. Budgets at the Department of Agriculture and...