The U.S. Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Service, awarded a $31,550,974 Cooperative Agreement under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777) to Fireweed Metals Corp. The purpose of this award is to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense, with a focus on domestic-source tungsten supply for generations. The award period runs from December 12, 2024 to September 12, 2028 and is...
The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $20,336,482.00 Cooperative Agreement to South32 Hermosa Inc. (doing business as Arizona Minerals) on May 15, 2024. The funding supports the "Accelerated Access to Domestic Manganese Ore for Advanced Materials Assessment Project" to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The project aims to...
The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act Title III (CFDA 12.777) program, awarded a $31,329,322 Cooperative Agreement to Nathan Trotter And Co., Inc. on September 23, 2024. The funding is for the company's "Comprehensive Domestic Tin Processing for National Defense Hardware" project, which aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The project has a performance period from...
The Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $8,674,454 Cooperative Agreement to Rare Earth Salts Separations And Refining LLC on September 9, 2024. The award supports the commercial production of heavy rare earth elements from recycled lamp phosphors, a critical domestic capability for the national defense industrial base. The Cooperative Agreement enables Rare Earth Salts to further develop and scale its innovative extraction...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) provides $970,748 in funding to Advanced Technology International (ATI) and its subrecipients to demonstrate chemical processes for powder production of novel, advanced refractory metal alloys and refractory complex concentrated alloys. The goal is to enable energy-efficient powder production processes for inherently less expensive alloy compositions, as...
This $1,430,183 Cooperative Agreement award was issued on July 11, 2024 by the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The award supports the "METALS AFFORDABILITY INITIATIVE III (MAI III) AGREEMENT ORDER #25 PROCESS MONITORING FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING USING ENHANCING DATA ANALYTICS FRAME" project. The primary awardee is Advanced Technology International (ATI), a non-profit organization that facilitates collaborative...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program (CFDA 12.777), will fund Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC to expand U.S. aluminum casting capacity. The $54,919,400 award, granted on July 22, 2024, aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The funding will support efforts to reduce reliance on foreign sources and strengthen...
This Project Grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), provides $135,085 to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (doing business as Tees) for the period of March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2024. The funding supports the acquisition of an ultrahigh-resolution microscope Raman and synchronous fluorescence system to conduct materials characterization and analysis. As the...
<p>The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $9,248,010 Cooperative Agreement to Fortune Minerals Limited on May 16, 2024. The funding is intended to expand domestic capacity and production of cobalt for the battery supply chain, which is essential for national defense. The project has an ultimate completion date of August 17, 2026 and will be performed at a location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.</p>
The Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters awarded a $511,230.10 cooperative agreement to the New York State Technology Enterprise Corporation (Nystec) doing business as Nystec from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The funding supports Nystec's delivery of procurement technical assistance to business firms through New York's Procurement Technical Assistance For Business Firms program. Administered by the Defense Logistics Agency under Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 12.002,...