The Trump administration reportedly plans to end funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program, a public-private partnership that supports small and medium-sized manufacturers, ...

Manufacturing Extension Partnerships need a re-examination, say some, while others find the Trump-administration cuts ...

It is called the Omnibus Spending Bill, the annual appropriation by Congress that covers several departments, a multitude of programs, and several hundred billion dollars. But it also might be called ...

MEP programs in all 50 states are threatened as NIST plans not to distribute funds that lawmakers allocated to the ...

New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators have introduced separate pieces of legislation aimed at providing financial and technical assistance to small and medium-sized manufacturers and tech firms. U.S. Sen.

Read Report H.R. 5952 and S. 3072 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 - in support of funding for Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program. Issues ...

Walk into Michele’s Granola factory in Timonium, Maryland, and you smell the homey aromas of toasting oats, brown sugar and vanilla. The facility produces 2,500 pounds of granola a day in eight ...

Last month, President Trump submitted a “Skinny Budget” with the goal of removing some of the “fat” within Washington, DC. Unfortunately, one of the programs eliminated in his budget is not "fat." The ...

House investigators are probing allegations that a Commerce Department agency has retaliated against numerous whistleblowers who spoke out against financial mismanagement by agency officials, Scribe ...

American manufacturing has been on a steady growth streak for years now, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the middle to late 1980s, U.S. industry was mired in a long, severe slump, and had ...

The Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) trades make up a significant portion of a construction project’s budget, and MEP scope continues to grow in complexity and size as we get further into ...