Making good on a pledge to invest in American manufacturing made during his State of the Union address in February, President Barack Obama is scheduled today to outline two executive actions geared toward job growth and boosting the economy.
In a speech he's set to deliver at 1 p.m. CT in Austin, Texas?the first stop in several trips focused on jobs?the president will discuss the need to attract jobs and train workers in the United States focused on two new executive actions made Thursday. He hopes to put the focus back on the economy as the issue has been overshadowed by debates on gun control, sequestration and immigration.
Obama on Thursday established a competition to create three new "manufacturing innovation institutes" similar to the pilot program in Youngstown, Ohio called the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), a consortium of manufacturing firms, universities, community colleges, and non-profit organizations. Like the institute in Youngstown, these new institutes will be partnerships between businesses and universities and the government to help U.S.-based manufacturers develop technologies and to train workers on those technologies to boost the economy.
"When you have that type of strong partnership ? you make the United States more of a magnet for job creation" and innovation," Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council told reporters on a conference call on the initiatives earlier Thursday.
Costs for the $200 million program will be shared by five federal agencies: Defense, Energy, Commerce, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. The Department of Defense will lead two of the new institutes, ?Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation? and ?Lightweight and Modern Metals Manufacturing?, and the Department of Energy will lead the third institute, ?Next Generation Power Electronics Manufacturing?.
The president in his speech Thursday will also press Congress on his previous request for $1 billion to establish a network of 15 of such institutes.
Obama also issued an executive order Thursday requiring that new government data be made freely available and in usable formats, which the White House believes will help build businesses and create jobs through innovation.
"As one vital benefit of open government, making information resources easy to find, accessible, and usable can fuel entrepreneurship, innovation, and scientific
discovery that improves Americans' lives and contributes significantly to job creation," the executive order reads.
The order notes the decision decades ago to make weather and Global Positioning System data freely available sparked major U.S. innovation.
The administration has directed several additional actions to complement the data executive order, including adding new services to Data.gov, which houses government data.
During his trip to Austin Thursday, the president will also meet with local residents, technology entrepreneurs and technology company Applied Materials.
The trip is billed by the White House as the start of the president's "Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour."
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