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A plan to expand advanced manufacturing instruction at Tunxis Community College in Farmington could be delayed as the state's higher education system faces severe budget cutbacks.Connecticut has spent $8.4 million in capital funds to purchase and renovate a 44,000-square-foot former manufacturing fa

CT renovated a Tunxis Community College building to be used for machine technology classes. But money to run the program isn’t in the budget.

Without a coordinated approach between business and higher education, state and industry leaders say, Connecticut’s advanced manufacturing sector could lose out to competitors.

State leaders are working to coordinate industrial and academic efforts to adopt AI, big data and robotics in Connecticut. It's no simple task.

Submarine work is on the upswing, and eastern Connecticut — home of Electric Boat in Groton — is steadying for the boom.

The U.S. Navy needs a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, a $112 billion acquisition its leaders have called “foundational to our survival.”  In the coming decades, those ships will take shape, one by one, inside an enormous new facility at the General Dynamics Electric Boat campus on the Thames River in Groton, with the help of thousands of newly minted welders, ship-fitters and mechanics mobilized from eastern Connecticut and beyond.

“The sheer volume and complexity of work that we’re infusing into the submarine industrial base is something that we haven’t had in a very long time,” said Whitney Jones, director of the Submarine Industrial Base initiative at U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal and the president of Bristol manufacturer Arthur G. Russell Co. touted possible public/private partnerships in manufacturing training programs at an event supporting the federal Endless Frontier bill. The bipartisan bill currently in the U.S. Senate would, among other features, quadruple funding for the federal Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a public-private partnership focused on helping small and medium-sized manufacturers increase their competitiveness on the gl...