The Institute for American Manufacturing & Technology publishes applied research on manufacturing, energy, and artificial intelligence, written by the practitioners who run these systems and read by the people who decide.
The Institute produces applied research on the country's ability to build, power, and govern its own technological and industrial future.
The people rebuilding American industry learn things that rarely make it into published research or the rooms where decisions get made. What an operator knows about supply chains, permitting timelines, or workforce pipelines usually stays on the floor.
The Institute closes that gap in two ways. We publish what practitioners know. Our fellows run supply chains, energy projects, and manufacturing operations, and they write under full disclosure of their affiliations so readers can weigh every claim in context. And we connect that knowledge directly to the decision makers who need it, through briefings, convenings, and a private professional network built for exactly this exchange.
Every number we publish traces to a primary source. Every author states who they work for. That is the standard.
Each institute operates with specialized focus while contributing to a unified understanding of American industrial capacity.
The Aegis Institute focuses on artificial intelligence, compute infrastructure, data systems, and the strategic governance of advanced technologies.
The Atlas Institute focuses on energy systems, power generation, grid reliability, and the infrastructure required to support industrial growth.
The Forge Institute focuses on manufacturing, industrial capacity, supply chains, and the policies required to restore domestic production.
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Our research addresses the structural conditions that determine whether the United States can build, power, and govern its own industrial future.
Analyzing the structural and policy conditions that determine whether American firms can compete in advanced manufacturing at global scale.
Mapping vulnerabilities in semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing supply chains that create strategic risk.
Addressing permitting, regulatory, and capacity barriers that prevent the construction of critical energy and industrial infrastructure.
Developing frameworks for governing AI, compute infrastructure, data systems, and advanced technologies at the national level.
Assessing domestic capacity to produce military hardware, munitions, and strategic materials at the scale national security requires.
Evaluating next-generation nuclear, fusion, and advanced baseload generation technologies required to power industrial and compute growth.
Analyzing how trade policy, tariff structures, and technology export controls shape domestic manufacturing and strategic competitiveness.
Building the human capital systems, training pipelines, and apprenticeship programs required to sustain advanced manufacturing and technology deployment.
The Institute is building the research infrastructure America's industrial rebuilding requires.
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You have spent a career learning what works. The IAMT Network gives that knowledge a byline and an audience that can act on it. Members publish alongside fellow practitioners, brief decision makers, and shape the research agenda of the Institute.
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