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Great Partners, Great Progress We’re off to a great start in 2019, with lots of project activity and member engagement. Earlier this month, Boeing hosted a fantastic workshop at several of their locations in the Seattle area, including a tour of their Everett manufacturing center. It was an amazing experience …

By Emily McGrath, Deputy Director of Workforce Development, NextFlex Evergreen Valley College (EVC), San Jose, CA, in partnership with NextFlex and local manufacturing companies, is working to create a comprehensive talent pipeline to address the need for a robust, local advanced manufacturing workforce. The initiative is based on a broad …

Project Call 5.0 is slated for release on June 10, 2019, this Member Alert is to announce the call for topics and schedule associated with the project call. Technical Working Group (TWG) Co-leads are working to prepare for inputs from the TWG volunteers, and NextFlex wants to ensure that all …

By Scott Miller, Director of Strategic Programs, NextFlex The latest NextFlex workshop was a deemed a tremendous success in terms of the diversity of attendance, the high-quality presentations, and the activities surrounding the workshop. Held April 1-4 at several Boeing facilities in the Seattle area and attended by 145 industry, …

One of the most compelling characteristics of emerging technology is its capacity to solve some of the biggest challenges facing our world. From environmental issues to socioeconomic challenges to medical problems, next-generation materials and products present our greatest hopes to solve the problems of today and tomorrow. In line with …

Earlier this year, NextFlex launched FHE PRO, a professional training program that complements existing programs targeted to middle and high school students (FlexFactor®) and university students (Learn and Earn). Lockheed Martin, a Tier 1 NextFlex member, helped guide the development of FHE PRO and brought a team of technologists from …