About Us
OTNA is a nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit industrial policy institute. Since 2007, we have convened stakeholders to redesign industrial systems to be financially profitable and sustainable.
Our Core Principles

Our approach to engaging multiple stakeholders from diverse industries and sectors requires thoughtful and respectful participation.
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Our Leadership
Our Accomplishments
OTNA has developed state and regional plans, tools, analyses, and paradigms that support these values.
- In 2023, OTNA led a four-county stakeholder activity in New Mexico in the aftermath of a 350,000-acre forest fire that resulted in the New Mexico Forestry Business Plan.
- In 2021, OTNA convened hundreds of transportation stakeholders to create Nevada’s 2021 State Rail Plan, a new whole-systems paradigm for statewide rail-enabled economic development.
- On December 11, 2008, OTNA gathered industry and government leaders in the U.S. Capitol to develop a new collaborative framework for freight rail transportation efficiency.
