December 17, 2025 – The ARM (Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing) Institute has issued its latest Future of Work supplemental report: our Training Gap Analysis Report created in in partnership with Deloitte Consulting and Valdos Consulting. In 2024, the ARM Institute set out alongside Deloitte Consulting and Valdos Consulting to assess the current workforce landscape within the U.S., understand the current level of skills sets by region, by technology, by skill level and by generational cohort. This research was supported by Department of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program.
Overview
ManTech engaged the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute to assess the current defense-oriented advanced manufacturing landscape and future skills requirements. As part of this effort, Deloitte assessed skill needs over five and ten-year horizons as well as regional training providers with programs focused on those skills.
The purpose of the Training Gap Analysis Report is to provide a landscape of the training providers for the US advanced manufacturing and adjacent workforce by region. This report includes an overview of the training landscape and modalities, identifies critical skill gaps by region, and analyzes training providers within these regional skill gaps.
This report was accomplished using rigorous analysis of information obtained through Deloitte’s Labor Market Intelligence (LMI), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), and Roboticscareer.org which provide insights of the number of graduates and training providers across this national workforce.
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More About the ARM Institute’s Future of Work Research Program
Our Labor Market & Skills Report for Manufacturing is part of our larger Future of Work research program that seeks to address how technologies such as robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the nature of work for US. manufacturers. This research aims to detail not only these changes, but also the lessons learned, best practices, and actionable steps for educators, employers, and labor unions to take to build a future-ready manufacturing workforce.
This effort started when the ARM Institute publicly released our 74 page Future of Work Research Report in June 2024. Leveraging existing research, interviews, and case studies from across the ARM Institute’s network, this study provides key insights on workforce issues and programs that are helping prepare workers for the changes that are already here and those that are on the horizon.
The ARM Institute regularly updates our Future of Work report through supplemental assets, including our Labor Market & Skills for Manufacturing Research Report detailed on this page.
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ABOUT THE ARM INSTITUTE
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) funded by the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Agreement Number W911NF-17-3-0004 and is part of the Manufacturing USA® network. The ARM Institute leverages a unique and robust consortium of 470+ members and partners across industry, academia, and government to make robotics, autonomy, and artificial intelligence more accessible to U.S. manufacturers large and small, train and empower the manufacturing workforce, strengthen our economy and global competitiveness, and elevate national security and resilience. Based in Pittsburgh, PA since 2017, the ARM Institute is leading the way to a future where people & robots work together to respond to our nation’s greatest challenges and to produce the world’s most desired products. For more information, visit www.arminstitute.org and follow the ARM Institute on LinkedIn and X.