Jennifer McDermott

Associated Press

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Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

The first boxes of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are loaded into a truck for shipment from the McKesson facility in Shepherdsville, Ky., Monday, March 1, 2021. As demand for COVID-19 vaccines collapses in many areas of the U.S., states are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire and have to be added to the millions that have already gone to waste.

States Left with Huge Vaccine Stockpiles

States are scrambling to use stockpiles of doses before they expire.

Construction to Begin Soon on New U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

President Biden has set a goal to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030.

In this Sept. 26, 2019, photo, cars pass Rockefeller University in New York. Prestigious universities around the world, including Rockefeller, have accepted at least $60 million over the past five years from the family that owns the maker of OxyContin, even as the company became embroiled in lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic, financial records show. Rockefeller accepted more money from the Sacklers than any other school in recent history.

Colleges Got $60M from Sacklers

Some of the donations arrived before recent lawsuits blaming Purdue Pharma for its role in the opioid crisis. But at least nine schools accepted gifts in 2018 or later.

Hamdi Ulukaya, founder, chairman and CEO of Chobani.

Chobani Comes to Aid of Students

Low income students were getting cold sunflower butter and jelly sandwiches instead of a hot meal.

In this Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, generals salute during an installation ceremony at the U.S Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., one the Army's three major command headquarters. The Army is scouting large cities in 2018 to find a home for a fourth command headquarters, one that would be near experts in technology and innovation who can help focus on the Army's future. The site is expected to be announced by the end of June 2018.

Army Scouting Big Cities for New HQ

It wants the new command headquarters to be close to academia and industry.

In this Thursday, March 15, 2018 photo, preparations are under way for the commissioning of the U.S. Navy Virginia-class attack submarine PCU (pre-commissioning unit) Colorado (SSN 788) at the naval submarine base in Groton, Conn. The submarine will be the USS Colorado and begins service Saturday, March 17, 2018, at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.

The Navy's New Attack Sub

The 377-foot-long sub weighs about 7,800 tons submerged.

This March 2017 photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard and made by a robotic camera aboard a reconnaissance aircraft, shows icebergs floating near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. Coast Guard says about 1,000 icebergs drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes this year, marking the fourth consecutive 'extreme' ice season. The Connecticut-based Coast Guard International Ice Patrol monitors iceberg danger in the North Atlantic and warns ships. It held its annual meeting Thursday, Dec. 14 in New London, Conn., to discuss 2017 and look ahead to 2018.

1,000 Icebergs Tracked in Shipping Lanes in 2017

This will mark the fourth consecutive "extreme" ice season.

Navy to Spend $5B on Sub Project

General Dynamics was awarded the contract for ballistic-missile submarines.

In this Tuesday, July 31, 2012 file photo, Christopher Del Mastro, head of anti submarine warfare mobil targets stands next to an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in a lab at the Naval Undersea War Center in Middletown, RI. President Donald Trump and U.S. Navy leaders have said that the nation needs about 350 ships, roughly 75 more ships than the fleet has today. Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, said they could get closer to the Navy's goal by counting unmanned vehicles that have capabilities similar to a manned ship.

Navy Considers Unmanned Vehicles

Unmanned vehicles could one day lay mines and conduct surveillance.

U.S. Water Chemical Contamination Study

Perfluorinated chemicals have been linked to cancer but aren't regulated in drinking water.

This photo provided by the US Navy shows Stephen Corr welding the outline of Dana Richardson’s initials on the Oregon keel as Dana and Electric Boat President Jeff Geiger look on Saturday July 8, 2017, in North Kingstown, R.I.

Construction Begins on Attack Submarine

The future USS Oregon is expected to cost about $2.7 billion and be delivered to the Navy in November 2019.