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Build It Up: 3D Printing To Get Boost From World’s Fastest Computer

Vince Beiser
January 22, 2020
Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory made history as part of the Manhattan Project, demonstrating the crucial ability to produce plutonium from uranium in a nuclear reactor. Today ORNL is at the forefront of another potentially world-changing technology involving tiny bits of matter: additive manufacturing.
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Mark Muro, Scott Andes and Matthew Stepp: Department of Energy’s National Labs Can Also Be Regional Hubs

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Matthew Stepp Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
Mark Muro Brookings
September 24, 2014
The Department of Energy’s 17 national laboratories are a $12.5 billion network of potentially transformative basic and applied R&D hubs located in or near many of the nation’s metropolitan areas. However, the labs are today underutilized as true economic assets.
 

How can they be better leveraged?

There are lots of ideas out there, but as we argue in a new paper, one of the most effective ways for the labs to increase their economic impact is for them to “go local” and engage more in the advanced industry ecosystems within which they reside.
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