A planning committee appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop to examine the manufacturing and characterization capacity in the US for mid-scale production of sufficient quantities of emerging materials to assess the engineering utility of those materials and their reproducibility. The following topics with a focus on defense-specific considerations will be discussed:
1. Availability, access, and economic sustainability of mid-scale manufacturing facilities that produce batches of material through new and novel means and provide sufficient data to determine reproducibility including validation and verification of performance.
2. Availability, access, and economic sustainability of experimental facilities that provide extreme environment characterization for assessing performance and manufacturing quality, to validate models, and to enable insight into processes.
3. Current state of the art approaches that are used to evaluate data, models, and simulations for scale-up, including innovations used to integrate these approaches into subsequent steps for discovery and deployment of products.
One or more rapporteurs who are not members of the committee will be designated to prepare a workshop proceedings in brief.