AMIC is an industry-led facilitation and coordination platform designed to strengthen and operationalize the U.S. maritime industrial base.
The United States has renewed its commitment to maritime revitalization through historic legislation and federal leadership. AMIC aims to bridge the execution divide between:
AMIC is where America's maritime industry organizes to rebuild. We map industrial capacity, match partners to projects, and deliver actionable intelligence—bridging the gap between policy mandates and on-the-ground execution.
AMIC operates as a neutral, membership-based industrial platform, an execution-oriented coalition, and a coordination and matchmaking layer.
AMIC concentrates on three interconnected priorities:
Commercial and defense vessel construction capacity across U.S. yards.
The supply chain, component manufacturing, and production infrastructure that shipbuilding depends on.
The skilled workers, training pipelines, and apprenticeship programs required to scale.
AMIC leads development of the U.S. Maritime Revitalization Agenda—an industry-driven framework for rebuilding America's maritime capacity.
In October 2025, 49 maritime leaders convened at the SHIPPINGInsight Leadership Roundtable to identify the structural barriers to U.S. maritime growth. The result was a constraint-based analysis—five barriers and an implementation roadmap—now being operationalized through AMIC. The framework is recognized in the context of the 2025 National Security Strategy.
An Industry Design Assessment of H.R. 9911 and H.R. 9921
An AMIC white paper and webinar assessment of two July 2026 bills aimed at supporting the U.S. maritime industrial base. It identifies key design flaws in H.R. 9911 (Qualified Opportunity Zones) and H.R. 9921 (Shipyard Investment Tax Credit), noting misalignments in census tract boundaries, designation limits, and effective dates that could hinder decade-long development timelines.
A National Blueprint for Industrial Renewal, Security, and Competitiveness
Distills the October 2025 SHIPPINGInsight Leadership Roundtable: five structural barriers to U.S. maritime growth and an implementation roadmap, now being operationalized through AMIC.
Industry-Policy Alignment on What Needs to Be Done
Synthesizes roundtable findings with Congressional testimony on the SHIPS for America Act, showing alignment between policymakers and industry on priorities for restoring U.S. maritime strength.
Maritime Implications of the 2025 National Security Strategy
Examines how the 2025 NSS makes industrial capacity a core pillar of national power and what that implies for maritime—and why private-sector coordination is a national imperative.
An Industry Readiness Assessment
A structured industry assessment of the White House's February 2026 Maritime Action Plan (MAP). Finds that the MAP's four pillars and 21 provisions align with AMIC's Maritime Revitalization Agenda—and examines the coordination challenge at the center of implementation.
Executing America’s Maritime Action Plan Through Coordinated Industrial Strategy
Analyzes how America’s Maritime Action Plan (MAP) aligns with long-standing structural weaknesses in the U.S. maritime industrial base, outlining how shipbuilding, workforce development, cargo policy, and Maritime Prosperity Zones require coordinated private-sector execution to transform federal policy into operational maritime capacity and long-term industrial resilience.
How Federal Strategy and Industry Research Converged on Maritime Industrial Reform
Explores how independent federal and industry research reached the same conclusions about the structural weaknesses of the U.S. maritime industrial base, and examines how the Maritime Action Plan positions coordinated industry execution, capital alignment, and workforce infrastructure as essential to rebuilding national maritime power.
From Regional Mobilization to National Coordination
Examines how regional maritime ecosystems across the Pacific Northwest, Gulf Coast, and inland supplier corridors are organizing around the Maritime Action Plan and SHIPS for America Act. Explores how coordinated federal policy, industrial specialization, workforce development, grid readiness, and innovation-driven shipbuilding can rebuild U.S. maritime power through strategically designed Maritime Prosperity Zones.
Administrator Carmel’s Five-Pillar Architecture and the SHIPS for America Act
A forum report from the National Maritime Week Leadership Forum (May 20, 2026) outlining the federal strategy to build a next-generation maritime system. It details the Five-Pillar Architecture—Cargo Generation, Resilient Logistics, Workforce Revitalization, Modernized Shipyard Capacity, and Innovation Ecosystem—arguing that U.S. competitiveness rests on capability and technology rather than cost, with the SHIPS for America Act serving as the legislative backbone for execution.
AMIC is led by a team of maritime professionals who adopt a comprehensive and holistic approach. Recognizing the existing gaps between dialogue, government discussions, and commercial realities, our goal is to bridge these gaps. We aim to facilitate and accelerate the nation's shipbuilding capabilities while providing American sealift capacity that meets the requirements for ensuring our national, economic, energy, food, climate, and workforce security.
Strategic architecture, implementation roadmap, industrial intelligence framework
Texas/Gulf Coast regional execution, industrial base connections, case study development
AMIC is building a network of shipyards, suppliers, ports, technology providers, workforce organizations, and capital partners committed to American maritime industrial strength.
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