Advanced Manufacturing Office

  • FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Extending Industrial Assessment Centers to Underserved Areas
    FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: Extending Industrial Assessment Centers to Underserved Areas

    Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aimed to encourage a broader and more diverse set of performers, and further expand the geographic reach of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) program. Full applications are due March 14, 2017.

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  • Innovation as Identity
    Innovation as Identity

    With the growing commitment to advanced manufacturing innovation across the nation, we have seen the emergence of regional ecosystems in support of this need for technology innovation. These regions, such as Eastern Tennessee and Northern California, are establishing themselves as fertile areas for the research, development, and manufacturing of revolutionary new technologies, particularly in energy.

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  • DOE Announces 5th Energy Department-led Manufacturing USA Institute
    DOE Announces 5th Energy Department-led Manufacturing USA Institute

    The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office announced the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance to lead new Manufacturing USA Institute. The Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute will focus on developing technologies to reuse, recycle, and remanufacture materials and improve energy efficiency by 50 percent by 2027.

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  • AMO’s Multi-Year Program Plan Draft Available for Public Feedback and Comments
    AMO’s Multi-Year Program Plan Draft Available for Public Feedback and Comments

    The Advanced Manufacturing Office released its Multi-Year Program Plan for Fiscal Year 2017 through 2021. The plan identifies the technology, outreach, and crosscutting activities the Office plans to focus on over the next five years. Public feedback and comments will be accepted until February 10, 2017.

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  • FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: EERE Announces $35 Million for Breakthrough Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing
    FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: EERE Announces $35 Million for Breakthrough Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing

    The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, on behalf of the Advanced Manufacturing Office, will make available approximately $35 million to support early-stage innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing that are not significantly represented in EERE’s current portfolio.

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Manufacturing converts a wide range of raw materials, components, and parts into finished goods that meet market expectations. The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) partners with industry, small business, universities, and other stakeholders to identify and invest in emerging technologies with the potential to create high-quality domestic manufacturing jobs and enhance the global competitiveness of the United States.

What We Do

We partner with industry, small business, universities, regional entities, and other stakeholders to identify and invest in emerging clean energy technologies. We establish collaborative communities focused on developing and commercializing targeted technologies; play a leadership role in the national interagency Advanced Manufacturing Partnership; and encourage a culture of continuous improvement in corporate energy management. Our investments have high impact, use project diversity to spread risk, target nationally important innovation at critical decision points, and contribute to quantifiable energy savings.

By reducing the life-cycle energy consumption of manufactured goods by 50 percent over 10 years, we will support the creation of high-quality domestic manufacturing jobs and enhance the competitiveness of the United States.

Why It Matters

Manufacturing converts a wide range of raw materials, components, and parts into finished goods that meet market expectations. Game changing investments in Advanced Manufacturing—efficient, productive, highly integrated, and tightly controlled processes—have the potential to fill the innovation gap between research and full "to scale" industrial production. As an end-use sector, manufacturing is the most diverse in the U.S. economy in terms of its energy sources, foundational technologies, and the products manufacturing produces. In 2012 (unless otherwise indicated), U.S. manufacturing was responsible for 12.5% [1] of GDP, direct employment for about 12 million people [1], and 70% [2] of all business R&D performed (in 2010 and 2011); and close to 75% [3] of U.S. exports of goods; production of 17% [4] of the world's manufacturing output, and 25% [5] of U.S. energy use.

1 U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Value Added by Industry, Gross Output by Industry, Intermediate Inputs by Industry, the Components of Value Added by Industry, and Employment by Industry (xls)
2 National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Business R&D Performance in the United States Increased in 2011 (pdf)
3 U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. US International Trade in Goods and Services December 2012 (pdf)
4 United Nations. National Accounts main Aggregates Database. GDP and its breakdown at current prices in US Dollars (xls)
5 U.S. Energy Information Administration. Annual Energy Outlook. Residential, Commercial, & Industrial Demand Sector Data Tables