Photonics to Drive Investment Boost in Advanced Manufacturing
BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 25, 2012 — Photonics technologies are already key enablers of advanced manufacturing, and new initiatives to boost the US’s capabilities in that area will be a good use of the country’s photonics R&D, leaders of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, said this week. On July 18, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology formally adopted a new report by the steering committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), a steering...