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so, as you can see on the screen. We have a splash that this portion is going to be recorded, and again for those that just joined we will not record after the do. We portion is over.

So let me introduce Carolyn, who, we are very glad to have her join us today, but she's the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Energy efficiency office at the Department of Energy.

In this role she leads a diverse energy efficiency program, and our, indeed portfolio that includes advanced manufacturing building technologies federal energy management at low income, weatherization, and intergovernmental partnerships.

Previously Dr. Snyder had served as the director of Us. Epa's climate protection, partnerships division

and prior to Epa she supported both public and private clients on strategic management and environmental projects at Mckinsey and Company.

So she's got a long bile. But I think we'd rather hear her tell us about some of the changes at a doe at this point, so let me hand it over to Carolyn, and again We're very pleased to. Glad to have you join us.

Great, and thank you so much for the introduction and for including us in today's meaning. I really appreciate it. And Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today and making the time to have this discussion on advanced manufacturing at Doe. As I said, I'm, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy efficiency

in Doe's office of Energy, efficiency, and renewable energy.

As you all well know, the manufacturing sector is our nation's economic engine. It generates eleven percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Eleven point four million jobs and contributes more than two point, three, five trillion dollars to the us economy,

but it currently accounts for about thirty percent of all energy-related industrial carbon dioxide. Emissions in the country. So we have our work cut out for us.

Fortunately there are significant market opportunities to deliver manufactured products in the green energy economy

within the Us. Department of energies, energy efficiency and global energy office sits our advanced manufacturing office.

Its mission is to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the industrial sector while delivering innovations to drive manufacturing of next generation energy technologies to decarbonize the whole American economy.

This includes increasing, manufacturing competitiveness and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector

These twin missions are achieved by solving manufacturing challenges to achieve decorization, developing secure and support sustainable supply chains and providing technical assistance and supporting workforce development,

investing in a strong efficient and clean industrial base has long been a bipartisan priority, as such as you can see on this slide. Here there has been growing support for advanced manufacturing over the past decade

that has increased the number of activities supported by our enhanced manufacturing office. We are investing more than you ever have today at dealing in advance manufacturing.

The advanced manufacturing investments and activities in eerie are best represented as two emissions, working complementarity together, one working towards increasing us competitiveness and manufacturing and the other focused on decreasing industrial emissions by furthering industrial efficiency and other decarbonization technologies and processes,

the advanced materials and manufacturing technologies office and The industrial efficiency and decarnization office will achieve their respective emissions through structures supporting these key pillars. And we're talking today about these two new offices that we're beginning the start of next month.

So for the presentation today, i'll go through each of these offices to help clarify what our focus will be, and to unpack further the intended structures. So first our new advanced materials and manufacturing technology office,

we will advance energy-related materials and manufacturing technologies to increase domestic competitiveness and build a decarbonized economy.

Our vision for the future is to have a competitive Us. Manufacturing sector that accelerates the adoption of innovative materials and manufacturing technologies all in support of a clean, decarbonized economy. This new office will support American advanced manufacturing creates secure,

secure critical supply chains and develop diverse innovation. Ecosystems

that can lead to new manufacturing jobs and increased economic strength of the nation.

The office will be accomplishing these priorities through three main pillars, one next generation, materials and processes, two secure and sustainable materials and lasts energy technology, manufacturing and reports.

I'll now go into a bit more detail on each of those three

next generation materials and processes,

increasing us, manufacturing competitiveness through competitiveness, through material and process. Innovation is key to building a secure domestic supply chain as such are new office priorities, accelerating r D. Novel energy, material and innovative manufacturing processes that multiple industries can use.

These novel materials can have improved properties, such as high strength to weight, ratio, enhance, connectivity or the ability to perform more effectively in our surface environments. Critical and energy technology,

manufacturing process, innovation include smart manufacturing methods, added manufacturing and other cutting Edge Process innovation, historic contributions to the history of the advanced manufacturing office.

This killer also includes support for information technology, innovations to enable manufacturing systems and supply chains to be more competitive

energy, efficient and more effective at responding to disruptions, change, and new opportunities. One example of a successful endeavor in this pillar is the sheer assistive processing and extrusion or shape project

where the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a new energy-efficient manufacturing company for aluminum alloys used in various transportation sectors with seventy percent energy safety.

Next, another pillar of this enrollment is secure in sustainable materials. The office is also focused on developing sustainable supply chains for the clean energy economy and establishing a circular economy for a broad range of materials,

We are prioritizing, securing supply chains for critical materials for energy technologies, such as those needed in advanced batteries. Electric motor and generator magnets, power, semiconductors, and hydrogen production.

Examples of successes in this pillar include a new process to extract rare earth elements, critical and clean energy technologies, and another process to recycle psalmers that reduces energy by sixty nine percent and emissions by seventeen percent.

And last, But certainly not least in our new office is energy technology, manufacturing and workforce investment.

We are focused on R. D. And D for innovative manufacturing that advances the clean energy economy. This includes energy storage systems and wide hand gap power of semiconductors,

the energy technology and manufacturing and workforce pillar includes initiatives that prepare our workforce to stop and deploy advanced manufacturing tools, such as advance automation, high performance, computing and artificial intelligence

through the lab embedded entrepreneurship program alumni has started new companies received over nine hundred million dollars in follow-on funding, and created nearly one thousand new jobs.

So that is a brief exploration and tour of our key pillars in the new advanced materials and manufacturing technology office.

Next I will move over to our industrial efficiency and decarbonization office. It will accelerate the innovation and adoption of cost-effective technologies that eliminate industrial greenhouse gas emissions

our vision for the future is an efficient and competitive industrial sector with net zero greenhouse gas emissions by two thousand and fifty.

This new office will support innovation and technology and the adoption of practices to enable the industrial sector cost effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions,

our new programs here and building up existing programs. We've been critical to putting the nation on a pathway, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by fifty percent by two thousand and thirty when compared to a two thousand and five level, and to achieve next year of carbon emissions by two thousand and fifteen.

Among recent activities in this portfolio. On September the seventh, we announced the industrial efficiency of the organization, so a one hundred one hundred and four million dollars opportunity funding opportunity that advances decarbonization technologies to reduce the carbon equipment of the industrial sector.

Now, as you can see here again, we have structured the new office around three main pillars, one energy and emissions, intensive industries, two cross-sector technology and three technical systems, and workforce development

similar to the advanced materials and manufacturing technology's office. I'll run through each of those pillars in a bit more detail.

So energy and emissions, intensive industries,

reducing emissions from energy and emissions and sorts of industries is a key priority of this neo-profit through analysis and stakeholder input we've identified the following industrial sub sectors as key areas of focus chemicals iron and steel food and beverage cement, and

additional analyses will be carried out to determine how decriminalization strategies can be deployed in industrial sub sector beyond the initial plan and we look forward to working with all of you on those detailed prioritization actions, action plans in the coming months

next cross-sector technologies.

This pillar focuses on research development and demonstration of technologies needed to decarbonizing manufacturing

across a broad range of industrial sub Sectors technologies include low-carbon feedstocks electrification combined heat and power and other approaches to reduce emissions from water and waste water.

One of the successes in this area has been a new iron making process with the potential to reduce energy consumption

by up to fifteen percent.

And last, but certainly not least, is our technical assistance in workforce development for life,

mute offices, technical assistance and workforce development filler will focus on providing resources to key stakeholders to accelerate decarbonization investments across Us. Manufacturing

In this program we will continue to engage with industry to increase the adoption of different technologies, programs and practices like energy efficiency, more important than ever

Other decarnization technologies, energy management programs and water and wastewater reduction technologies.

We will also support workforce training and upskilling activities to meet the need for industrial jobs of the future and to support these new decarbonization technologies.

The better plants program has been one of our main successes from the effort enlisting over two hundred and seventy partners for manufacturers for manufacturers and industry organizations to set and meet sustainability goals resulting in over ten billion dollars

and through the better climate challenge. We are challenging organizations to set ambitious oil-wide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, and in this new effort we are providing additional opportunities for peer exchange and technical assistance. We need the urgent call to mitigate impacts of climate change.

Last week we released the Industrial Deep Organization Roadmap at a roundtable event with Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Grannell, White House National Climate Adviser Gina Mccarthy and a diverse group of stakeholders through stakeholder collaboration and tireless efforts of many colleagues who worked on this report,

including many of you on the call today this roadmap outlines, concrete recommendations and actionable next steps to reduce industrial emissions and achieve a net zero economy by two thousand and fifteen.

The roadmap concludes four main strategies to decarbonize the industrial sector which you see are featured here. Energy, efficiency, industrial electrification, low carbon fuels and heat stocks and carbon. Management.

And you likely notice that the insights from the roadmap have already greatly shaped our new organizational structure and strategy. So thank you all for your contributions and that important work.

The roadmap also includes specific actions for five of the most emission-intensive industrial subjectors and what they can do to reduce their emissions.

The office will lead the charge in implementing the roadmap's recommendation, as well as leading coordination across all of Doe's programs and offices

on industrial decarbonization.

Speaking of coordination,

not only will These two offices work closely together with each other, as well as with our sister offices within eerie to advance us manufacturing competitiveness

and increase industrial missions. The two offices will also be collaborating with other daily offices, focusing on different aspects of manufacturing from lab to the market.

In addition to the new manufacturing and energy supply Chain's office

and a new office of clean energy demonstrations both summarized here on this slide. We will also continue to work closely with science and arpa-e to adopt the latest breakthroughs in applied science and innovation into our r d and d program

and The long Programs office will continue to provide debt financing for large-scale commercial deployment deployment. The private commercial lenders cannot or will not provide

another update for all of you today is that we are fortunate to have Steve Mcnight joining us as the acting director for the dance manufacturing office over the coming year. Seeds will lead Euries industrial and manufacturing technology programs.

Through this exciting transition into two new offices until the search for permanent directors is completed. Seeking a witch,

we are currently hiring permanent positions to lead both the advanced materials and manufacturing technology's office

and the industrial efficiency and decarbonization office.

I encourage you to apply. If you are interested as well as sharing this information with any potential candidates in the networks.

Speaking of hiring, we are hiring for a number of new positions across both of these offices to lead and support the pillar work that I've described today. We encourage you to help us mind the best candidates for these roles as well, and full information is available on our website.

There are multiple events coming up in the next two weeks to stay engaged about updates. Then, with advanced manufacturing. Within the week the stakeholder workshop today was one of three workshops we were holding to provide updates on our two new offices that are being created from Amo.

I also encourage you to attend or share with others our September session to those who may be interested in career opportunities within the eerie and community more broadly

so in closing, I want to thank you for your support and commitment, to advance manufacturing and industrial decarbonization.

Together we will continue to increase us manufacturing competitiveness, and together we will build a net zero industrial sector of the future that benefits our nation's, workers, communities, and Americans across our country

without further ado. I'm pleased to introduce Dr. Steve Mcnight, our new acting director of the advance manufacturing. As I said, over the coming years, he will be leading eerie's, industrial and manufacturing technology programs through this exciting transition to two more.

Steve brings more than twenty five years of leadership and research experience in government academia and the non-profit sector. So you previous served as the Vice President for strategic alliances

at Virginia Tech, where he advanced strategic partnerships and oversaw executive level engagement with Federal agency research sponsors and labs

before joining Virginia Tech. He had spent five years at the National Science Foundation, where he served as the Deputy Assistant Director of Directorate for Engineering and the division director for civil, mechanical, and manufacturing innovation

over to you, Steve, to share some of your own insights on the vision and future of Dee's two new offices and our approach to this exciting transition.

Thank you, Carolyn, and good afternoon, everyone. It's great to see so many of the names and faces I recognized as as Carolyn mentioned, i'll be coming on board to support er E's Industrial and manufacturing technology programs as we transform Amo into the new offices.

I'm: really excited by the vision for Amo, and that we are sharing with you today as well as having a personal role in this transformation.

I've got some experience shepherding these large toile, organizational transitions to meet me

of time such as this, and feel there are similar opportunities for our research community. Now, some of you may remember that I led an Ss. Effort to realign the Nsf. Manufacturing programs with the goal of President Obama's advanced manufacturing partnerships, both one point and two point for those members

that was coordinated through a great interagency process.

These efforts created a blueprint for much of what the Federal manufacturing and research enterprise is today, and the steps we're announcing build upon that very strong foundation.

So now i'm really looking forward to your heading this timely and important transformation for ere and Amo and i'm happy to be working with a fantastic team. This is an important moment for industrial and manufacturing programs within the department, as well as among the broader advanced manufacturing communities.

This milestone is a result of many years of hard work and a record of success in advancing research development, demonstration, initiatives to make a stronger Us. Manufacturing sector

amo at the document history of excellence reflected by its growth and programs and many of the technological impacts across multiple industrial sectors.

The Mo. Is now at an inflection point, and restructuring into the two offices that Carolyn described

with two critical missions, one to increase the production of clean energy technologies to decarbonize the economy and boost Us. Manufacturing competitiveness and to building a decarbonized industrial sector that benefits workers communities and all Americans

i'm confident that this will be a positive change for er. E's industrial and manufacturing technology programs, and I couldn't ask for a better team with him to make them

with Carolyn's thoughtful leadership and passionate and talented team and amo. We're positioned for this exciting transition,

and our team will continue to grow as we hire for positions across both new offices, ranging from two new directors to the technology manager spanning clean energy manufacturing industrial, deep organization. As Carolyn mentioned, we're looking for top talent. Now, please spread the word.

In addition to our great team at ee, we also have more experts than ever before we're working across the oe on these critical issues. Our team will work closely on shared interests with Doe's newest office, the office of clean energy demonstrations in the office of manufacturing energy supply chains. We'll also continue to collaborate with the office of fossil energy and carbon management

and other technologies offices within eer

This is going to be an all hands-on deck approach, and we'll be working in lockstep to support the full innovation. Pipeline

and we wouldn't be here today with you, without you on our side our industry partners who will make all the work we do possible. We thank you for your collaboration, and we look forward to continuing to work together in the future

we will need your feedback and partnership. As we embark on this transition. We're very excited. You'll be part of this next phase in the eer industrial and manufacturing journey.

Carol and I would now like to open it up for questions. I see several of them in the chat already. Please feel free to put those questions in the chat or raise your hand, and our colleague, Mark Johnson, will take you off mute and let you ask your question, so i'll turn it over to Mark, who's going to do a little bit of the direction of this question. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. First of all, thank you.