We are building a strategy for the STEM ecosystem rooted in equity, inclusion, and scientific excellence to power progress, innovation, and prosperity for all by 2050.
ANS will host an international conference on Nuclear Education and Training in 2025 and we are supporting this effort as a committee chair leading a new awards program for students, educators, innovators, and industry.
Our role is to support the Nuclear Workforce summit in 2024.
We are collaborating on regional innovation ecosystems to build public-private partnerships among academia, industry, and state/local agencies to advance scalable, sustainable STEM solutions and grow economic markets in regions throughout the United States.
National Academy for Nuclear Training and National Uniform Curriculum Program
We are collaborating with these organizations to help build and promote new nuclear curriculum, programming, and training across academia.
We are bringing together public-private partners to create a national nuclear power workforce strategy and implementation plan for the United States. Our role is to bring together our ORAU member universities, community colleges, and technical schools to form a committee on education and training. Topics that our committee will explore include how to grow the STEM workforce pipeline and how to attract, train, and retain highly skilled and diverse workers.
We are helping build the Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) R&D ecosystem, capacity-building, and infrastructure to ensure these academic institutions are successful in advancing their capacity to receive federal, state, and local funding. This includes helping to build models for HBCU students to develop STEM career pathways into federal agencies.
Our goal is to mobilize a team of diverse public-private partners to build a Water Security Center to address issues of equitable water accessibility, and develop capacity-building measures at the local, regional, and state levels. The central focus is to improve aging infrastructure, develop new models based on changing rainfall patterns, and increase the water-sector workforce. We are currently partnering with the University of Georgia and Vanderbilt University.
The Center for Science, Technology and Advanced Research in Space (C-STARS) will be a multidisciplinary research hub with the mission to support and serve the growing space sector in space manufacturing and train the next generation of workers in space technologies, sciences, and exploration. C-STARS will bring together universities, industries, and the Florida Spaceport to transform access to the space environment and facilitate development of innovative on-demand, in situ space manufacturing capabilities in biopharma, microelectronics, photonics, and payload hardware solutions. The overall vision of C-STARS is to ensure our country achieves and sustains global space manufacturing preeminence. We are currently partnering with the University of Florida.
We are working to help develop innovative cybersecurity education and training in Zero Trust Risk Management Frameworks (RMF), defense, and cyber offense and industry-accepted cybersecurity certifications.