1. Short title; sense of Congress (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Manufacturing American Dynamism in Entrepreneurship and Harnessing Education to Retool Employees Act or the MADE HERE Act . (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) a strong domestic manufacturing base is a national security priority and advances in manufacturing technology, workforce development, and supply chains contribute to the resilience of the defense industrial base; (2) the manufacturing workforce is aging with no new generation rising up to replace them; (3) the median age of manufacturing workers is above average and rising at a higher rate than the general workforce; (4) this is a national security threat, as well as a threat to the economic prosperity of the United States; (5) there is a shortage of manufacturing and technology educators; (6) there are many workers with some technical or manufacturing skills who are unemployed or underemployed because they lack the right skills or certifications to work in advanced manufacturing; (7) such workers include former employees of low-skilled manufacturing plants that have closed, as well as veterans leaving military service; (8) many manufacturing businesses are using legacy equipment with cyber vulnerabilities and do not have recently trained employees to bring newer equipment online; (9) strengthening the innovation pipeline from fundamental research to technology development to entrepreneurial training can lead to new products, processes, and business models for manufacturers