April 30, 2025 | Elyria, OH
Join us in celebrating 10 years of collaboration and innovation between the Ohio Technical Skills Innovation Network (Ohio TechNet) and NextFlex.
June 10, 2025 | Boston, MA
Join us for a half-day member-only meeting to be held at UMass Boston on June 10.
In Fall 2024, NextFlex commissioned a study to gain insight into the Hybrid Electronics manufacturing ecosystem along with the markets and plans for commercialization.
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Now that Innovation Days has ended, it’s time for us to turn our attention to other upcoming events. As part of our 10th anniversary this year, we will be celebrating 10 years of collaboration and innovation between the Ohio Technical Skills Innovation…
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As a teen, Gabriel Degler always had an interest in robotics and engineering. This interest inspired him to enroll in a popular advanced engineering systems class during his junior year of high school. As part of his class curriculum, Gabriel participated…
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More than 200 NextFlex members and government partners gathered for Innovation Days in Santa Clara, Calif., March 25-26, both in person and virtually, for two days of presentations, demonstrations, and a celebration of our 10th anniversary.
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On February 10, 2025, Lorain County Community College (LCCC) in Elyria, Ohio, hosted an enriching college visit for three iterations of FlexFactor students from Elyria City Schools’ “STEAM 2.0” class.
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Multi-disciplinary technician-level occupations remain at a huge deficit nationally for advanced manufacturing, particularly process technicians, robotics technicians, electronics technicians and others that can bridge manufacturing processes to help…
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I are very pleased to announce that today we released Project Call 10.0. Building from the success of past project calls, PC 10.0 uses broadly defined topics to enable a diverse proposer base, with special emphasis on areas in which hybrid electronics…
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We are delighted to announce that Stan Farnsworth will join NextFlex as Director of Business Development, effective March 17, 2025.
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With Innovation Days just over a month away, I would like to highlight some features of the event, including sessions and speakers.
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I have great news about this year’s Innovation Days. As you may know, NextFlex is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2025! We’ll kick off the celebration at Innovation Days, and so for the first time in several years, the first day of Innovation…
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Together, HICAM is building partnerships to bring together emerging technology, business and product ideas, and industry support.
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As I look to the coming year, I am very excited about the opportunities ahead for hybrid electronics. Every day brings new potential challenges for which NextFlex is well positioned to address, both in technology advancement and growing the US manufacturing…
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Yesterday, it was announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) are entering into negotiations to establish and operate a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute called SMART USA (Semiconductor Manufacturing…
Learn MoreLooking ahead to next month, we will be releasing an updated Hybrid Electronics Ecosystem Assessment. NextFlex members will have access to the entire report, and non-members will be able to view an abridged version on the NextFlex website.
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NextFlex, in collaboration with NIST, held a discussion on dispelling the myths of Advanced Manufacturing. Some common manufacturing myths are: manufacturing is dirty and dangerous; manufacturing is unskilled; manufacturing means long hours and being…
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Devin is the technical director and co-founder at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds at the University of Washington and I am also a faculty member in Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. His testbeds lab focuses on energy…
Learn MoreI am very excited to be writing to you as the new NextFlex Executive Director. My predecessor Dr. Malcolm Thompson established a solid foundation for growth and an environment for fostering collaborative innovation when he held the position.
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OSD ManTech hosted all nine of the DoD Manufacturing Innovation Institutes at the Pentagon on June 4th to enable a group of senior leaders to learn more about emerging technologies for defense applications.
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NextFlex’s Deputy Director of Education and Workforce Development, Courtney Power, represented NextFlex and The Boeing Company at Explora’s Donor Societies Reception. Explora Science Center & Children’s Museum, located in Albuquerque…
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We recently spoke to Sostenes Perez from NextFlex’s first Expanded Ecosystem Associate Member, Integrated Solutions for Systems, Inc. (IS4S).
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Having just concluded the academic year, the NextFlex team took a moment to reflect on the amazing progress the FlexFactor program has made since its inception in 2016, and celebrated the impact that the program is having around the country by updating…
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As most of you know, NextFlex and its member partners submitted a concept paper to the NAPMP Materials & Substrates NOFO in May. Out of more than 100 concept papers, NextFlex was one of eight teams that were selected to submit a full proposal, which…
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