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Rekindling the domestic textile industry by leading a nationwide enterprise for advanced fiber fabric technology development and manufacturing About Revitalizing the Textile Industry As a nonprofit publicprivate partnership and DoD funded Manufacturing USA Innovation Institute AFFOA bridges the gap between earlystage technology and commercialization. We utilize our expertise and membership ecosystem to help advance the development of textilebased products with transformative capabilities to meet defense and consumer needs. What We Do We are revolutionizing the textile industry by transforming traditional fibers yarns and textiles into highly sophisticated integrated and networked devices and systems enabling novel products business models that leverage fabrics as a service. How We Do It Advancing the manufacturability of the most disruptive fiber and fabric technology while building the next generation supply chain and manufacturing workforce Why We Do It To reinvigorate the U.