WASHINGTON – President Obama today announced a national initiative to invest in emerging technologies to create jobs and increase US global competitiveness.

The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership aims to unite industry, universities and the federal government to concentrate on building manufacturing capabilities in national security industries; diminishing the time required to create advanced materials used in manufacturing products; establishing US robotic leadership; increasing manufacturing process energy efficiency, and developing new technologies that will reduce the time required to design, build and test manufactured goods.

More than $500 million will be allocated to start this effort, including investments on small high-powered batteries, advanced composites, metal fabrication, bio-manufacturing and alternative energy.

This summer, the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, Agriculture and Commerce have set a goal of $300 million in funding.

BOLTON, MA – Electronic data transfer formats, vital as they are, are guaranteed to elicit yawns, if not outright derision, from users. But that history isn’t deterring an industry task group from attempting to tackle the now three-decades-old problem of unintelligent schematic files.

BROOKLYN PARK, MN – Krayden has opened a new location here to provide enhanced service and support to customers in the upper Midwest.

This is the company’s fourth expansion in the last two years.

Krayden provides technical expertise and offers application assistance through custom packaging and formulating, dispensing/processing equipment and technologies, in addition to fabricating capabilities.

The firm serves solar, electronics, aerospace and transportation, as well as OEM manufacturers.

WESTFORD, MA – Electronics test and fault diagnostic provider Diagnosys plans to relocate its Kissimmee, FL, and Westford, MA, offices into a single, larger facility near Boston.

Approximately 80% of the Kissimmee staff, including all of the engineering team, will make the transition. Additional staff will be hired in Massachusetts.

The transition is scheduled to begin in early July, with final steps taking place in late September through early October. The company’s training facility will remain in Kissimmee through October.

The firm noted its Functional Test Group has won several new long-term contracts over the past few years, while its Diagnostic Group has seen an increase in the need for support of products and services to the Functional Test Group. 

Diagnosys provides equipment and support for testing printed circuit boards and modules.