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Consortium Awarded $30 Million for Manufacturing Pilot Program

Client Alert | 1 min read | 08.23.12

On August 16, the Obama administration announced both a $30 million award  that may serve as a model for future partnerships geared towards manufacturing innovation to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) and a "pilot" program for the Administration's National Network of Manufacturing Innovation plan to invest $1 billion "to catalyze a national network of up to 15 manufacturing innovation institutes around the country." NAMII, which was selected in response to a Broad Agency Announcement solicitation, is a consortium including dozens of major government contractors and manufacturing firms, universities, and non-profit organizations which will "co-invest" $40 million to develop additive manufacturing technology (a process by which products and components are manufactured more efficiently using digital models).

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Client Alert | 6 min read | 03.11.26

Senate Advances Bipartisan Health Care Cybersecurity Reform

On February 26, 2026, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted 22-1 to advance the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act of 2026. Sponsored by a bipartisan group — led by HELP Committee Chair Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA); and Senators Mark Warner (D-VA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and John Cornyn (R-TX) — the bill represents perhaps the most significant federal legislative effort to overhaul health care cybersecurity since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, and would compel health care companies to make major investments in cybersecurity....