2. Joining Together North America North America

3. Rick Van Schoik Director, NACTS What an Export-Oriented North America Means April 2012

4. AGENDA NACTS Joint Production Joint Manufacturing Joint Technology

5. NACTS Consortium of US, Canadian, Mexican universities with mission of increasing cooperation with four foci: Increasing awareness of NA Promoting NA competitiveness Improving NA security commons Addressing NA sustainability

6. Recent NACTS Reports

8. JOBS!

9. THEN IS NOW “The point of history at which we stand is full of promise and of danger. The world will either move towards unity and widely shared prosperity or it will move apart into necessarily competing economic blocs. We have a chance to use our influence in favor of a more united and cooperative world. Whether we do so will determine, as far as it is in our power, the kind of lives our grandchildren can live.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt February 1945

10. NOW IS FUTURE Our shared border must be an engine, not a brake, for our economies.

11. PREMISE North American competitiveness in world marketplace has been risked but is poised to recover based upon: More productive borders Application of technology Joint inspiration-to-perspiration production

13. NEI U.S. is on track to meet goals of the National Export Initiative (accounting for half of the growth during stagnation) Because: We build together Strong growth in Mexico Sustained imports by others

14. GREAT RECOVERY Growth in developing nations benefitted exporters of infrastructure construction raw materials (Canada) But second phase of global resurgence will demand the software-driven products that U.S. and Mexico build “Early days of export boom…including a manufacturing revival” Brooks NYT

16. JOINT A joint is the location at which two or more bones (nations) make contact. They are constructed to allow movement and provide mechanical support, and are classified structurally and functionally.

17. WHAT WE JOIN Cultures, Natures, Values Economies, Commerce, Jobs Security and Safety Energy, Ecology, Environment Commons, Futures

18. JOINT RESPONSIBILITY Guns, Ammo, Cash, and Precursor Chemicals are flowing south Is it any wonder drugs flow north to an appetite there

19. NOT!

20. JOINT MANUFACTURING To cite old statistics of the number of times an automobile component crosses the border is to miss the point that mining/minerals, energy, services, investment, education/training, design & assemble co-production, and even agriculture are now fully integrated North American endeavors To

21. INTERNATIONAL MARKET

22. EXAMPLES Cow fetuses are sent south, young calves are sent north, and fattened beef is sent south One fifth of major high-tech and large item manufacturing industries is “back-” or “on-shoring” including autos, aerospace due to wage convergence, education, supply chain durability, and cost including energy and GHGs

23. JOINT MANUFACTURING Boomerang effect: Proximity! Labor costs no longer matter Productivity driven by software “Manufacturing advances already in pipeline…cost of North America-made solar panel will fall by more than half to 50 cents per watt

24. JOINT PRODUCTION PEMEX crude Reversing flow of natural gas Refined products Gulf of Mexico “donut hole” Renewable energy Carbon, greenhouse gases

26. JOINT BORDER OPS Mirrored enforcement ‘Shared intelligence Joint booths Single E-window Clusters and secure corridors

27. C4ISR Traditional border security was three legged mantra Ports were imbalanced with borders Non-intrusive technology is poised to enable 21 st Century corridors, gate- ways, optimodal/interchange facilities Other communications

28. JOINT RISK ASSESSMENT Targets Threat Vulnerability Probability Impacts Consequences

29. LAST THOUGHTS

30. CONTACT INFO WWW.NACTS.ASU.edu NACTS@ASU.edu 480-965-1846

31. Amira De la Garza NACTS; Associate Director NACTS Overview of History, Structure & Research