NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing manufacturing micro-factory innovations in tribal communities (NM, AZ)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进部落社区（新墨西哥州、亚利桑那州）的制造微型工厂创新

• 批准号: 2302926
• 负责人: Harold Halliday
• 金额: $ 99.24万
• 依托单位: Navajo Technical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2302926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on addressing a key void in technology-based economic development: a failure to involve tribal communities in technology transfer and advanced manufacturing. The pilot program will develop distributed manufacturing micro-factories and technology centers in the Navajo Nation, which will enable these remote rural tribal communities to participate in emerging supply chain operations in the space industry, which is growing in the Southwest. These micro-factories will be implemented in a manner consistent with tribal community values. The region of service is the Navajo Nation, which includes the states of New Mexico and Arizona. Navajo Technical University (NTU) and Arizona State University (ASU) will work collaboratively to develop a plan for an operational ecosystem. NTU has strong technical and training capabilities complemented by ASU's technical, economic development, and technology transfer strengths. The project will establish a network of micro-factories to benefit from space technology supply chain opportunities and provide a roadmap for Tribal adoption of digital infrastructure and digital manufacturing technologies that generate revenue and create jobs. The effort will increase community awareness of employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. Working with newly elected Navajo Nation leadership, the project takes a comprehensive approach by leveraging tribal, higher education, and industry resources to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem that furthers tribal economic prosperity goals. NTU's Center for Advanced Manufacturing will be the hub of the network of advanced manufacturing sites. The ASU School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks will equip sites with state-of-the-art technology. ASU will establish a legal framework that will facilitate the contracting process with prospective industry partners. This effort will develop industry and investor connections, help foster an entrepreneurial mindset among tribal members, and facilitate the development of entrepreneurial support mechanisms that attract additional private investment needed to build out the manufacturing network. Through this Development Award, the project team will establish a roadmap within which space industry supply chain opportunities, production facility requirements, workforce technical skill needs, and overall management and coordination mechanisms are identified in preparation for a full NSF Engine.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该区域创新引擎开发奖的重点是解决基于技术的经济发展中的关键空隙：未能使部落社区参与技术转移和高级制造业。试点计划将在纳瓦霍国家开发分布式制造的微问题和技术中心，该国将这些偏远的粗糙部落社区能够参与西南航空行业的新兴供应链运营。该疾病将以与部落社区价值观一致的方式实施。服务地区是纳瓦霍国，其中包括新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州。纳瓦霍技术大学（NTU）和亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）将合作制定运营生态系统计划。 NTU具有强大的技术和培训能力，由ASU的技术，经济发展和技术转移优势完成。该项目将建立一个微观的网络，以从太空技术供应链机遇中受益，并为部落采用数字基础设施和数字制造技术提供路线图，以产生收入并创造就业机会。这项努力将提高社区对就业和创业机会的认识。该项目与新当选的Navajo Nation领导力合作，通过利用部落，高等教育和行业资源来创建一个可持续的制造生态系统，以进一步发展部落经济繁荣目标。 NTU高级制造中心将是高级制造地点网络的枢纽。 ASU制造系统和网络学校将为网站配备最先进的技术。 ASU将建立一个法律框架，以促进与潜在行业合作伙伴的签约过程。这项努力将开发行业和投资者联系，帮助促进部落成员之间的企业家心态，并支持开发企业家支持机制，这些机制吸引了建立制造网络所需的额外私人投资。通过此开发奖，项目团队将建立一个路线图，在该图表中，空间行业的供应链机会，生产设施要求，技术技能需求以及整体管理和协调机制的确定为准备完整的NSF引擎。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估通过评估来诚实地通过评估来进行评估。