Federal Agencies’ Perspectives on Advanced Manufacturing
Federal Agencies’ Perspectives on Advanced Manufacturing
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 2:00 – 3:30pm
Organizers: Brian Paul, Zhijian (ZJ) Pei and Scott Smith
In this special session, representatives from several federal agencies will share their perspectives on matters related to Advanced Manufacturing. They will also answer questions from the audience.
The panelists at this special session are:
DoD: A. Adele Ratcliff (Director, Industrial Base Analysis & Sustainment)
DoE: Rob Ivester (Director, Federal Energy Management Program)
NASA: John Vickers (Principal Technologist, Space Technology Mission Directorate)
NIST/AMNPO: Frank Gayle (Deputy Director, Office of Advanced Manufacturing)
NSF: Brigid Mullany (Program Director, Advanced Manufacturing Cluster)
Frank W. Gayle
Deputy Director, Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO)
Deputy Director, NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Frank W. Gayle is Deputy Director of the interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, which is headquartered at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This office coordinates federal activities in advanced manufacturing, and is the Congressionally-designated National Program Office for Manufacturing USA®. His past roles at NIST include serving as Division Chief of the NIST Metallurgy Division, where he focused on measurement needs for industry. Frank also led the team of technical experts on the forensics of structural steel in the Congressionally mandated NIST investigation of the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. Prior to joining NIST, Frank spent 11 years in the aerospace industry. He is a Fellow of SME and ASM International, and a Member of the World Economic Forum - Global Future Council on the Future of Manufacturing. Frank earned an Sc.D. in Materials Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and degrees in Civil and Mechanical Engineering from Duke University.
Rob Ivester
Director, Federal Energy Management Program
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Department of Energy (DoE)
Robert W. Ivester currently serves as the Director of the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. FEMP oversees the implementation of policy and actions that result in energy efficiency implementation, renewable energy adoption, and reduction in energy and water use in federal government operations. Prior to this position, he served in AMO for six years. During that time, AMO launched five Manufacturing USA Institutes, the Critical Materials Hub, and hundreds of small R&D and technical assistance projects across the Nation. He also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for over 16 years, leading and performing research in advanced manufacturing. He has been an instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals program for graduate-level studies in manufacturing engineering since 2001. He is a SME Fellow and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received his doctorate in engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
A. Adele Ratcliff
Director, Industrial Base Analysis & Sustainment (IBAS)
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (ODASD) for Industrial Policy (IndPol)
Department of Defense
Adele Ratcliff is currently the Director of the Industrial Base Analysis & Sustainment (IBAS) Program within the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (ODASD) for Industrial Policy (IndPol). During her tenure in Office of the Secretary of Defense, she has focused on building strong interagency partnerships to address broad transition of manufacturing issues such as manufacturing readiness and the Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise. Her current position uses the broad authorities of the IBAS program element to enable a modern Industrial Base that integrates traditional and emerging sectors to be able to respond at will to National Security Requirements. Most recently, as the Director of the DoD Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program, Adele led the effort in establishing the DoD’s national Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs), now known as Manufacturing USA Institutes, outlined in the President’s 2013 State of the Union address. She has a long acquisition career, including Program Manager for the congressionally mandated Defense Acquisition Challenge Program, Deputy Program Manager for the Foreign Comparative Test Program, and more than eleven years in Air Force Test and Evaluation at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. As Test Manager, she guided the Air Force’s Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser test program (better known as WCMD), from prototype through the production and deployment phase of the Platform, earning her the Air Force Materiel Command Test Engineer of the Year Award. More importantly, her efforts transitioned this Platform to support the Warfighter in the initial phases of Operation Enduring Freedom. She is a proud alumnus of the Mississippi State University Bulldogs, earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1988. In 2011 she graduated from the U.S. Army War College (in-residence) earning a MS in Strategic Art and graduated from the DoD’s Defense Senior Leadership Development Program (DSLDP). She received the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) Award for Excellence for her support of the Pilot Institute for Additive Manufacturing in March 2013.
Brigid Mullany
Program Director
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Brigid Mullany received her Bachelor of Engineering Degree and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland. Upon graduation she received a two-year EU Marie Curie postdoctoral research position at Carl Zeiss in Germany. In 2004 she joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she a Professor working in the area of surface finishing and advanced manufacturing. She received the SME Kuo K Wang Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2007, and the NSF CAREER award in 2008. Currently she is a Program Director in the Advanced Manufacturing Cluster at the National Science Foundation. She is active in CIRP, and is the Vice Chair of the Scientific Technical Committee on Surfaces (STC-S).
John Vickers
Principal Technologist
Space Technology Mission Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
John Vickers serves as the principal technologist in the area of advanced materials and manufacturing within the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. He also serves as the associate director of the Materials and Processes Laboratory at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and as the manager of NASA’s National Center for Advanced Manufacturing with operations in Huntsville, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana. He has over 30 years of experience in materials and manufacturing -- research and development, engineering, and production operations for propulsion, spacecraft, and scientific space systems. As principal technologist, he leads the nationwide NASA team to develop advanced manufacturing technology strategies to achieve the goals of NASA’s missions. He is the Agency representative to the National Science and Technology Council, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing and the Subcommittee on Critical and Strategic Mineral Supply Chains. He is a founding member of the Manufacturing USA - National Network for Manufacturing Innovation program and the Interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office. His many awards include NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal, NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal and the AIAA Holger Toftoy award. He is a fellow of SME. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
