On Thursday the White House announced the selections to the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, which the commander-in-chief first unveiled in 2011 to advance the place of industry, government and academia in the nation’s manufacturing sector.
In addition to the Cat executive, Alcoa chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld was tapped for the committee.
Others selected included United Steelworkers union international president Leo Gerard, Honeywell CEO David Cote, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Rafael Reif, Siemens president and CEO Eric Spiegel and Dow Chemical president, chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris.
The group will build on progress made by the first AMP committee, which called for further progress in US manufacturing and efforts to sustain the nation’s investments in science, technology and innovation.
“The new steering committee will build on the progress made over the last several years and continue to make America a magnet for jobs and manufacturing so we continue to manufacture things the rest of the world buys,” the administration said.
The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Steering Committee 2.0 will operate as a working group under the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology – or PCAST – and work closely alongside the White House’s National Economic Council and Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Commerce to fully put into place the recommendations of the initial committee.
It will also work to scale manufacturing workforce partnerships that are promising and identify new, concrete strategies for securing competitive advantages for early-stage technologies.
