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\n\tThe National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\n\tMEP centers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico support small and medium-size manufacturers and are dedicated to enhancing the productivity and technological performance of U.S. manufacturing. The agreements have five-year periods of performance that begin April 1, 2017, and they will provide nearly $60 million in total funding during that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tThe following organizations will sign cooperative agreements to operate MEP centers:<\/p>\n

\n\tDelaware Technical Community College<\/strong> (Newark) – $500,000<\/p>\n

\n\tHigh Technology Development Corporation<\/strong> (Honolulu, Hawaii) – $500,000<\/p>\n

\n\tIowa State University of Science & Technology<\/strong> (Ames) – $1,859,206<\/p>\n

\n\tMid-America Manufacturing Technology Center<\/strong> (Overland Park, Kansas) – $1,864,950<\/p>\n

\n\tMaine Manufacturing Extension Partnership<\/strong> (Augusta) – $863,522<\/p>\n

\n\tMississippi Manufacturers Association<\/strong> (Jackson) – $1,003,782<\/p>\n

\n\tBoard of Regents, Nevada System of Higher Education, University of Nevada-Reno<\/strong> – $756,001<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership<\/strong> (Albuquerque) – $1,360,802<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dakota Manufacturing Extension Partnership Inc.<\/strong> (Bismarck, North Dakota) – $500,000<\/p>\n

\n\tSouth Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership<\/strong> (Columbia) – $2,268,003<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversity of Wyoming<\/strong> (Laramie) – $500,000<\/p>\n

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\n\thttps:\/\/www.nist.gov\/mep<\/a><\/p>\n

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program has awarded a total of nearly $12 million in first-year funding to 11 organizations that will operate MEP centers in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,444,439,435,436,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-industries-and-applications","category-materials-processing-and-treatment","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nNIST awards $12 million to MEP centers in 11 states to support manufacturers - Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/edfas\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/27095921\/NEWS\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIST awards $12 million to MEP centers in 11 states to support manufacturers - 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