Cooperative Agreement FA86502025500

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,874,838 Cooperative Agreement to Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to develop an innovative aluminum (Al) air energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system. The goal is to meet ARPA-E's PROPEL 1K program targets for zero-emissions, high energy density, and high efficiency to enable electrification across the aviation, rail, maritime, and trucking industries. The project team, which includes the University of...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $4,300,000 from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (DEVCOM) supports research under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to assess the cost-effectiveness, operational impacts, and comparison of using aluminum as a hydrogen energy carrier versus other methods like liquid hydrogen and ammonia. The award to Georgia Tech Research Corporation will fund a technoeconomic assessment (Task 6) that will analyze fuel recharging,...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Albemarle U.S., Inc. a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. This project, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, aims to support the production of materials for the light and non-light duty...

Adroit Materials, Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop ion implantation-enabled fabrication of aluminum nitride (AlN) based Schottky diodes. The two-year award, issued on July 5, 2021, will support Adroit Materials' research into using ion implantation techniques to manufacture AlN-based power electronics components with improved performance over traditional silicon devices. ARPA-E's Advanced...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program supports Propel Aero, Inc.'s development of a high-energy sodium-air fuel cell power source. The $1,117,000 award, effective July 10, 2024 through January 9, 2026, aims to deliver a power system with a specific energy of 1,000 Wh/kg, continuous power of 500 W/kg, and electricity cost of $0.30/kWh. The foundational technology is a sodium-air fuel cell using a solid-state...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,100 Block Grant to Foundation Alloy Technology Explorations, Inc. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the development of a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. The project aims to enable resilient and secure domestic supply chains for critical reactor components by leveraging novel materials...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) [CFDA 81.135] provides $1,317,842 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop an "Alkali Hydroxide Triple Phase Flow Battery (3PFB)". The proposed 3PFB system will enable reversible operation of ultra-high energy density battery chemistries (>1,000 Wh/kg and Wh/L) through an innovative design inspired by fuel injection and conventional flow batteries. A...

This $10,950,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of Pajarito Powder's durable engineered catalyst support (ECS) materials and platinum-based catalysts (Pt/ECS and PtX/ECS). The project will scale up production from 30 g/day to 4 kg/day to support DOE's target of 20,000 fuel cell...

The Enabled Manufacturing LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on the synthesis and direct manufacturing of high conductivity aluminum alloys. The one-year project period, which began on June 27, 2022, will support the development of an energy efficient solid-state process for producing advanced aluminum conductors and their characterization. As part...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding research conducted by the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to explore new strategies for employing "safe" high energy dense fuels. The $377,828 project, awarded on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028, will focus on three key tasks: 1) obtaining structure-function relationships through systematic changes in molecular structure and...