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INW Aerospace Tech Hub Competes Against 18 other Applicants FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coeur d’Alene, Idaho / Spokane, Washington — December 15th, 2025 The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) Tech Hub announced it is competing in a pool of 19

The United States faces a critical technology commercialization gap—bridging the divide between prototype development and high-rate manufacturing of advanced aerospace composites. With the U.S. Air Force expecting to procure over 2,500 Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) by 2035 and commercial aerospace

The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) Tech Hub is proud to celebrate the success of one of its consortium members, North Idaho College (NIC), which has advanced in NASA’s Aerospace State Hubs for Skilled Technical Workforce Initiative. With support

We intend for the Inland Northwest Tech Hub to house the world’s largest composites press and advanced manufacturing capabilities under one roof. This center will be a national testbed and training center, where leading engineers from industry, DoD and NASA

Testbed and Training Center Will House the Largest Aerospace Composites Press in the World FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 3, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee this week, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg affirmed the critical role of

March 24th, 2025 – REUTERS This week Reuters highlighted the need for thermoplastic composites. Below are some highlights from that article that point to exactly why the AAMMC Tech hub and the United States efforts to develop a domestic supply

American Defense and Commercial Aerospace Industry Leaders, NASA, Partner on Breakthrough Lightweight Advanced Materials Testbed The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) Tech Hub is quickly moving forward with plans to acquire the world’s largest and most capable thermoplastic composites press to prove medium

Testbed Established with Federal Funding, Industry, and Private Commitments. Training Programs will be the Focus as Equipment is Procured. JANUARY 14th, 2025 – The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) announced today that the Testbed and Training Center will become

This week, GeekWire highlighted Spokane’s ambitious move to establish itself as a leader in advanced aerospace materials with the new Advanced Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC). The initiative focuses on developing thermoplastic composites, which promise to revolutionize the aerospace industry

On Friday, April 26th, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell highlighted Spokane’s potential as a global leader in aerospace materials manufacturing during an aerospace showcase at Blue Origin in Kent, WA. The region is poised to host the world’s first full-scale advanced

This week, EDA updated its website to include broad details about each of the 31 Designees’ proposals. While each Hub’s programs reflect their respective technology and industry focus, they are unified by the goals of the Tech Hubs program: making

On Wednesday, April 10th, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown signed an Executive Order supporting the city’s economic development strategy around the newly designated American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) Tech Hub. Mayor Brown introduced the executive order by explaining that the

In a significant advancement, the American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) has marked another milestone in its journey towards innovation and development. Recognized in October as a Regional Technology and Innovations Hub by the Economic Development Administration (EDA), the AAMMC

Through a series of local events and media appearances, leaders in the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene area and the State of Washington have demonstrated support and excitement for the AAMMC Tech Hub designation and phase 2 application. On February 15th, 2024, Mayor

The E.D.A. has posted Phase 1 narratives – the five page applications that winning hub submitted to the EDA. These narratives are the pitch that the hubs presented to the E.D.A. on why each hub is critical, what technologies the hub will drive forward, and outlines a vision of how the hubs would bring regional resources together. Read our successful submission.

Watch the President give a speech on the newly announced Regional Tech Hubs, the administrations investment in the program, and the significance of the development of these hubs for American manufacturing.

The Spokane-Coeur d’Alene region has officially been designated as a Regional Technology Hub by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA). The American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC) is now one of approximately 20 Hubs nationwide eligible to compete for Phase 2 of the CHIPS Regional Innovation Hub grants of $50-$75 million.

Interview with Eric Smith, Regional Tech Hubs Program Director: ‘Our goal is to enable the Tech Hubs that we designate and fund to capture more of their focus industry’s market share globally. These investments inject regions with an extra boost to generate more innovation, more services, more products, and more sales in a particular technology area.’

Leading aerospace companies and research universities have joined nearly 50 area workforce training, venture capital, economic development, labor, tribal and government groups in the Inland Northwest to support establishing the American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center (AAMMC). If selected, the AAMMC tech hub will establish a world-class testbed for production, commercialization, and entrepreneurship in the Inland…