Cooperative Agreement FA86501925017

The Washington Headquarters Service, under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $43,436,608 Cooperative Agreement to Global Advanced Metals USA Inc. on September 20, 2024. This award focuses on establishing low-cost domestic production capabilities for high-purity niobium, a critical material for defense applications. The goal is to reduce reliance on foreign sources of strategic materials and support the expansion of Global Advanced Metals USA Inc.'s...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act Title III (CFDA 12.777) program, awarded a $31,550,974 Cooperative Agreement to Fireweed Metals Corp. on December 12, 2024. The award, titled "DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TITLE III - MACTUNG: DOMESTIC-SOURCE TUNGSTEN SUPPLY FOR GENERATIONS", is intended to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The project focuses on developing domestic production...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $20,539,361.07 Cooperative Agreement to Northcliff Resources LTD. on Apr 29, 2025. The award is intended to fund a feasibility study update to support the domestic production of tungsten, a critical material for national defense. The project aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for U.S. national security and reduce...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through its 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 to support the commercial production of heavy rare earth elements from recycled lamp phosphors. This funding will enable the company to develop innovative extraction and refining methodologies to recover critical rare earth minerals from unconventional domestic sources, reducing reliance on foreign...

This $275,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of an environmentally friendly rare earth element extraction process from recycled fluorescent light bulb powder. The awardee, IM Technologies LLC, will engineer a prototype reactor system that uses precision ultra-high temperature heating to evaporate and subsequently condense targeted rare earth constituents from light bulb waste. Research tasks include optimizing thermal energy applications to efficiently extract...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to advance the capability of metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies to develop single-phase concentrated solid-solution alloys (SP-CSAs) with superior high-temperature radiation tolerance. The $300,000 award to Clemson University will fund a fellowship for an assistant professor and training for a postdoctoral researcher to conduct this research in...

The Department of Energy awarded a $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Boston Electrometallurgical Corp (doing business as Boston Metal) to support the development and commercialization of chromium alloy metallurgy using plasma melting and hot isostatic pressing techniques for near-net-shape high-temperature alloy parts. The project aims to strengthen domestic manufacturing...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $1,249,705 to Hysa Fillers L.L.C. to develop and commercialize multi-principal element alloy (MPEA) fillers for brazing turbine engine components. The project aims to promote U.S. manufacturing independence by offering a breakthrough in braze filler materials that can enhance the cost-effectiveness, toughness, and reliability of...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $3,135,483 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program to Microbeam Technologies Incorporated to demonstrate an advanced bench-scale process for producing germanium (Ge) and gallium (Ga) from a mixed rare earth oxide/mixed rare earth salt concentrate derived from a carbon-ore pilot process. The project, with a performance period from September 1, 2024, to August 31,...

Phase III Physics LLC received a $206,440 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to develop a Flexible Lithium Neutron Shielding Material (FLINS) using a Novel 6Li-based Composite. The funding supports research and development of a new composite material for neutron shielding through November 20, 2023. The award is provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries...