{"podcast":{"title":"Manufacturing an American Century","slug":"manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798","podcast_index_feed_id":6604798,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/manufacturing-an-american-century","website_url":"https://americanmcc.org/amcc-podcast/","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/06/a6/77/6c/06a6776c-7e7f-404d-a6a4-506f774613d3/d1a0836cab3e4583286e1472a4f9b25ac58b5530e7c0395d15fab100962b332f4f1a184b647690231329a71fbaba73fc4a9ba33689a2d4e0f76a7fb928892e54.jpeg","author":"AMCC","episode_count":49,"summary":"About the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC) AMCC is a non-profit organization assembled and led by a group of regional and national stakeholders dedicated to strengthening collaboration within and between regional manufacturing communities. AMCC works to achieve sustainable development in America through economic growth, improved environmental performance, and inclusive well-paid job creation to support the revitalization of American manufacturing. Born out of an interagency program, the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP), AMCC was created as a national organization of regional stakeholders to continue the important work of deepening connections and sharing best practices within community ecosystems and between manufacturing regions. AMCC has championed the bottom-up, community-driven model of building ecosystems of support to help manufacturers thrive, and was recently designated by the U.S. EDA as the nation’s manufacturing Community of Practice. AMCC supports regional consortia organized to strengthen manufacturing in any number of public/private initiatives to include federal agency community designation programs like IMCP, DOD’s DM…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T16:21:42.805239+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798"},"episode":{"title":"Building Utah's Manufacturing Ecosystem: Jeff Edwards on Composites, Collaboration, and the Long Game","slug":"building-utah-s-manufacturing-ecosystem-jeff-edwards-on-composites-collaboration-and-the-long-game","published_at":"2026-05-22T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798/building-utah-s-manufacturing-ecosystem-jeff-edwards-on-composites-collaboration-and-the-long-game","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/a5d47d54-b6e1-4293-8c21-9872644704c8.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/a5d47d54-b6e1-4293-8c21-9872644704c8.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Edwards, Senior Advisor on Materials and Manufacturing at 47G, Utah's Aerospace and Defense Association, and one of the original regional leaders behind what became AMCC. Jeff and I go back more than a decade to the early days of the EDA Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP) program, where he was doing the hard, unglamorous work of organizing Utah's advanced manufacturing ecosystem before most people knew what that meant. We start where Jeff is now at 47G and then dig into the remarkable backstory behind it. Jeff traces the origins of Utah's advanced composites industry from its roots in Cold War missile programs to now, through the patient, deliberate work of building the Utah advanced materials and manufacturing ecosystem from the ground up, one relationship and one data point at a time. It's a textbook case study in how a region can identify a niche, build an ecosystem of support around it, and turn it into a world-class cluster. We also talk about what IMCP meant for Utah and for the broader national network. Jeff shares examples of how peer learning across IMCP regions led directly to new programs back home, from carbon fiber recycling to succession planning for family-owned defense suppliers. And we dig into the broader case of why regions can't afford to race to the bottom or go it alone, and what it looks like in practice to build the collaborative, multi-stakeholder structures that can actually move the needle. Thanks to Jeff for a great conversation, give it a listen! Links to Learn More: Find Jeff on LinkedIn . Explore 47G’s body of work . Follow AMCC on Linkedin . Find Matt on Linkedin . Visit our website . AMCC’s podcast is made possible in part by the expertise of Mike McAllen, founder of Pod…","meta_description":"I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Edwards, Senior Advisor on Materials and Manufacturing at 47G, Utah's Aerospace and Defense Association, and o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2292,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798/episodes/building-utah-s-manufacturing-ecosystem-jeff-edwards-on-composites-collaboration-and-the-long-game/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798/building-utah-s-manufacturing-ecosystem-jeff-edwards-on-composites-collaboration-and-the-long-game.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}