The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $7,859,990.00 definitive contract to the San Diego State University Research Foundation, a non-profit organization, for the "Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource" (EMBER) program. This program aims to develop novel, bio-based technologies to enable new biomining methods for the separation, purification, and conversion of rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic sources like mine waste or electronics...
Battelle Memorial Institute, doing business as Battelle, has been awarded a $2,071,881 firm fixed price definitive contract by the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy to support the production of mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources. This contract is in response to a solicitation from the National Energy Technology Laboratory seeking proposals for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products in an environmentally sound manner through enabling,...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) awarded a $368,919 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Allonnia LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to conduct research on the biotechnology-enabled recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). The contract, titled "BIOTECHNOLOGY ENABLED RECOVERY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (BIOREE) BY HARNESSING PROTEIN SURFACE DISPLAY ON SOLID SUPPORT BEADS," is not set aside for any specific business...
The U.S. government agency Troop Support has awarded a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract valued at $1,824,984.00 to the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), a non-profit organization. The contract is for a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study of a domestic system to recover rare earth elements and other metals from electronic waste. This contract has no set-aside designation. NCDMM has a history of supporting defense and Army modernization efforts through research,...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) awarded a $99,448.00 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to USA Rare Earth LLC to conduct research and development across a variety of engineering and science disciplines at ERDC's facilities located throughout the United States. This contract is not a set-aside and was awarded under a Broad Agency Announcement solicitation that is continuously open for pre-proposals. The research areas include, but are not...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $2.15 million firm fixed price definitive contract to Biocarbon Technologies LLC, doing business as Biochar Now Montana, to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal-based resources containing a minimum of 300 parts per million total rare earth elements. The work will be conducted at the company's facility in Missoula, Montana between October 2020 and July 2021. This award responds to the National Energy Technology...
This federal contract award, valued at $10,670,749.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Battelle Memorial Institute, a large nonprofit research and development organization, to develop the methodology for programming microbial sense-and-respond devices to reliably detect a variety of chemical and physical stimuli. The contract, known as the TELLUS program, aims to assess the feasibility of utilizing microbial devices for environmental monitoring purposes....
This is a $5,828,149 cost plus fixed fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Battelle Memorial Institute, a large nonprofit research and development organization, for the Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) program. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating Battelle competed effectively in open competition. The objective of the AMPHORA program is to develop systems that can stabilize and preserve a...
This is a $49,102,007 Definitive Contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Battelle Memorial Institute for the "MICROELECTRONICS EMBEDDED SYSTEM AND ASSURANCE II" program. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee arrangement with a performance period ending in March 2028. This award is part of AFRL's Microelectronics Innovation for Next-generation System Advancement and Validation (MINSAV) Advanced Research Announcement, which seeks to develop prototype...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $2.15 million firm fixed price definitive contract to Upshots LLC for the production of mixed rare earth oxides from coal-based resources. The contract is in response to a solicitation from the National Energy Technology Laboratory seeking proposals to develop processes for extracting rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products in an environmentally sound manner at bench and engineering scales. Work will be conducted at the...