Technology Roadmap

Technology Roadmapping Background

In January 2015, President Obama announced the award of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), a $259 million public-private partnership focused on lowering the cost and energy required to produce carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composites while increasing the material’s recyclability. IACMI held its Inaugural Members Meeting to officially launch the Institute in June 2015.

The Institute is initially focused on three applications where advanced composites manufacturing can have significant national benefits: vehicles, compressed gas storage, and wind. To ensure IACMI conduct research aimed at solving industry’s needs in these areas, IACMI leadership will solicit industry input as it further develops the IACMI Technology Roadmap in the months ahead. The IACMI Roadmap must also build upon other relevant roadmapping activities, maintaining focus on achieving the 5- and 10-year technical and economic objectives of the Institute, and provide a sound technical basis for future IACMI projects.

Given IACMI’s budgeting cycles, IACMI required preliminary roadmap results in an accelerated timeframe, to be followed by more thorough stakeholder consultation and roadmap development in 2016 and ongoing roadmap monitoring and updating thereafter. Accordingly, the roadmap development approach has been described in three Phases:

About the Roadmapping Process

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Technology Roadmaps