Cooperative Agreement FA86502025541

The Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service awarded Lehigh Heavy Forge Corp a $17,216,700 Cooperative Agreement under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program, effective from September 30, 2024 to December 30, 2028. The award aims to sustain and expand Lehigh Heavy Forge Corp's domestic heavy forging production capabilities, which are essential for national defense. Lehigh Heavy Forge Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,...

The Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $247,755,000 Cooperative Agreement to Williams International Co., L.L.C. (Willc) on December 20, 2024. The grant supports facilities expansion to increase domestic production volume of cruise missile engines. The performance period for this award spans from December 2024 to March 2033, aligning with the DPA Title III program's strategic objective of reducing reliance on foreign...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $324,346 and awarded on December 5, 2024 by the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service, is focused on improvements to closed bomb and closed combustion chamber technologies under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The award recipient, Sparc Research LLC, is a for-profit limited liability company that specializes in advanced propulsion design, research, and technology development for Department of...

This $31,550,974 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), is supporting Fireweed Metals Corp. to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The award focuses on developing a domestic-source tungsten supply for generations, a critical material for national security applications. The project will run from December 2024...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act Title III (CFDA 12.777) program, awarded a $20,539,361.07 Cooperative Agreement to Northcliff Resources LTD. on Apr 29, 2025. The funding supports a feasibility study to update domestic-source tungsten supply capabilities, which are essential for national defense. The project aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities in this critical material. The performance period for this...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service is funded under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The $10,245,214 award, made on January 16, 2025, is supporting Rare Resource Recycling Inc. in the recovery and recycling of end-of-life neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets through rare earth extraction. This project aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities...

The Washington Headquarters Service, a defense agency, awarded a $43,436,608 Cooperative Agreement to Global Advanced Metals USA Inc. under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The grant, awarded in September 2024, 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 this strategic material and support the company's efforts to...

The U.S. Department of Defense, via the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $53,709,226.00 cooperative agreement to Electra Battery Materials Corporation on Aug 19, 2024. The funding will support the construction of a cobalt sulfate refinery in Ontario, Canada, to expand domestic industrial capabilities essential for national defense. This project aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore critical materials production and advanced manufacturing...

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 $775,000 Project Grant from the Defense Health Agency under the CFDA 12.420 Military Medical Research and Development program supports research at Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS) to model airborne hazard exposures using an airway-on-a-chip platform. The goal is to elucidate common pathophysiological mechanisms and identify potential medical countermeasure targets. This 3-year research project, starting on September 1, 2023, will leverage WFUHS's expertise in biomedical...