Overview
- Foundry School was announced Thursday, September 3, 2026, by Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary Marco Rubio and will run 17 sessions across eight university campuses.
- Seven regional sessions begin in September 2026 at partner schools and a ten-session core program at Stanford starts in January 2027 to complete the curriculum.
- Stanford developed the program’s advanced manufacturing curriculum and will lead keystone lectures with seven collaborating universities to teach factory design, automation and digital manufacturing.
- The State Department said industry instructors will come from U.S. firms and Pax Silica partner countries and that officials are working with Congress to enable allied participation.
- The administration frames the school as part of a broader reindustrialization push to fill a projected shortfall of roughly 3.8 million skilled manufacturing workers by 2033 and to turn recent industrial investment into jobs for engineers, technicians and plant managers.