The efficiency of the DARPA challenge reveals the potential impact of crowd-sourcing and small businesses on advanced manufacturing at the Department of Defense.
The Institute for Supply Management reported growth in the manufacturing sector and the Commerce Department reported a surprise September increase for construction spending.
Now, to help businesses operate at less cost, the Energy Department will develop new manufacturing processes and materials that use half as much energy.
Earlier this month, a U.S. subsidiary of Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to felony charges relating to adulterated drugs made at the two manufacturing facilities, according to the Justice Department.
Is Apple missing out on a big Department of Defense opportunity by not manufacturing iPads and iPhones for defense use in the United States?
The Commerce Department says 5.4 million manufacturing jobs left the U.S. between 2000 and 2009 to settle in lower-wage destinations such as China, India and other parts of Southeast Asia.
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Stocks were pressured earlier in the day after the Commerce Department reported durable goods in June indicated manufacturing growth is slowing.
The Department of Defense opened the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio, after funding was identified for it, she said.
So tonight, I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalisation into global centers of high-tech jobs.
The jobs came mainly in the healthcare, manufacturing, construction and food services sectors, the Labor Department said.
It was a down day on Wall Street as the positive news from the Labor Department was overshadowed by a disappointing ISM non-manufacturing report.
But the Department of Energy predicts that steady improvements in semiconductor manufacturing will bring the price of white LEDs below that of compact fluorescents in five years.
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To make amends, Obama named Dr. Edward Montgomery, a dean at the University of Maryland and former Labor Department official, as his emissary to help auto-manufacturing states deal with job loss.
Hassan, unlike many other chief executives, had the guts to personally handle negotiations with the Department of Justice 's Office of the Inspector General over manufacturing slip-ups.
The decision to build a manufacturing plant was taken after Hitachi Rail Europe won the contract with the Department for Transport (DfT) to replace the ageing fleet of diesel-powered Intercity trains.
Aerospace production grew at a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.8% in the fourth quarter while overall U.S. manufacturing shrank 1.9%, according to the Federal Reserve and the Department of Labor.
Based on statistics gathered by the US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the country's wide-ranging manufacturing sector fell below 12 million in 2009.
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