According to Forward Magazine, the Obama Administration's recently released Framework for Revitalizing American Manufacturing almost doeesn't exist:

But more than a week after Biden issued the paper to what, after all, is a low-profile group, there was still no announcement of it—and no copy of it—available on the White House web site. Forward’s copy, in fact, came from the web site of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), the Washington, D.C.-based pro-manufacturing advocacy group formed by the United Steelworkers Union, United States Steel and other metals companies. What’s more, no specific office signed the policy statement—not Biden’s office, not the National Economic Council, not even Ron Bloom, who is President Obama’s senior counselor for manufacturing policy.

Forward quotes Vice President Joe Biden as saying, “What we’ve done so far has barely broken the ice” [of support for manufacturing].  “We have a long, long way to go.” The "Framework" document comes at a crisis moment for the U.S. industrial sector, which has lost more than 5 million jobs and 51,000 factories over the past decade.  So, yes indeed, we have a long way to go. Forward is somewhat uncertain about the Administration's support for manufacturing:

The authors apparently believe that the government is as, or more, important to the future of manufacturing than, say, free enterprise, markets or consumers. The report says, on the one hand, that manufacturers are responsible for the bulk of U.S. research and 90% of all patents, and, at the same time, criticizes manufacturing for “under investment” in research and in worker training. Much of the policy statement focuses on ideas that have been supported frequently by President Obama, such as seed money to develop new industries making things such as wind turbines, solar power, and nanotechnology...Next to nothing is said about the needs of the nation’s existing manufacturing base, although the report says that, taken alone, U.S. manufacturing would constitute the world’s ninth-largest economy.

The jury is still out, according to Forward.  But the clock is ticking. Read more.