Two Central New York consortiums will receive a total of $10 million in federal grants to support defense manufacturing in the state.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, said Monday the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $5 million grants to the New York State Microelectronics Defense Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Workforce Consortium (Upstate Defense) project, and Cornell University’s New York Consortium for Space Technology Innovation and Development.
They are among six consortiums around the nation that have been awarded funding under the Defense Manufacturing Community Support program, which provides grants to promote defense industry manufacturing.
The two New York consortiums are the first New York organizations to receive funding under the program.
The Upstate Defense consortium is a partnership of Empire State Development, CenterState CEO, the Griffiss Institute, Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and FuzeHub.
The consortium said it will use its $5 million grant to undertake a $7.8 million program to expand education and workforce training programs for the microelectronics industry and bolster STEM-focused fellowship, internship and other education and training programs to connect job seekers with defense manufacturing companies in Central New York.
The consortium said it will also invest in attracting new defense manufacturing companies to Central New York with workshops and procurement training to strengthen supply chains across the region needed for the semiconductor industry.
Schumer said the consortium will work with a variety of industry and innovation partners, including Micron Technology, TTM Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Saab, JMA Wireless, SRC, AIM Photonics and the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate.
Micron has announced plans to build a massive semiconductor fabrication facility in Clay that it says will create up to 9,000 direct jobs and up to 41,000 jobs at suppliers and other companies over the next 20 years. Micron said it will invest up to $100 billion building the plant over that time.
Cornell will use its $5 million grant toward a $6.8 million program to promote workforce development, facility upgrades, and research and development projects, and to support small businesses in space technology manufacturing.
The other four consortiums received the following grants:
- The Michigan Defense Resiliency Consortium at the University of Michigan received a $5 million grant to undertake a $6.3 million program to create the critical foundation for energy storage and battery manufacturing necessary to support the Department of Defense’s transformation from internal combustible engines to electric vehicles.
- The Missouri Defense Manufacturing Community Consortium at the University of Missouri will receive $5 million for a $7.9 million program to create a pipeline of engineers and tradespeople skilled in the usage of modern digital advanced manufacturing technologies applied to the Department of Defense priority area of castings and forgings.
- The Central Pennsylvania Defense Shipbuilding Talent and Innovation Defense Ecosystem will receive $4.9 million toward a $6.1 million program that will support the U.S. Navy’s goal of increasing production from one to three submarines annually by creating a sustainable pipeline of skilled defense-specific talent and increasing adoption of production automation by the submarine industrial base.
- The America’s Additive Foundry Consortium at the University of Texas Rio Grande will receive $5 million for a $7.5 million program that aims to secure a U.S. supply of tactical alloys through additive, hybrid and intelligent manufacturing to address casting and forging supply chain issues facing the U.S. military.
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