Cooperative Agreement FA86502225511

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), is for $53,709,226.00 to support the construction of the Ontario Cobalt Sulfate Refinery. The award, dated August 19, 2024, aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense, with a focus on critical materials production. The project will be...

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 $31,329,322 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service is part of the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The program aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The award to Nathan Trotter And Co., Inc. will support comprehensive domestic tin processing for national defense hardware. The project has a period of performance from...

The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Washington Headquarters Service, 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 purpose of this award is to establish low-cost domestic production capabilities for high-purity niobium, a critical material for defense applications. This grant aims to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign sources of strategic materials and supports the company's...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense (DoD) under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), supports a feasibility study update for establishing a domestic-source supply of tungsten, a critical material for national defense. The $20,539,361.07 award to Northcliff Resources LTD., a Canadian company, will fund activities to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for the national...

The Department of Defense awarded Sparc Research LLC a $324,346 Cooperative Agreement under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777) on December 5, 2024. The grant is focused on improving closed bomb and closed combustion chamber technologies to create, maintain, protect, expand, and restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. This strategic initiative aims to support advanced propulsion design, research, and technology development for...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $23,626,790.00 from the U.S. Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service is part of the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The funding will support the Lithium Nevada Thacker Pass Mine Acceleration Plan, which aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. Specifically, the award to Lithium Nevada Corp. will help accelerate the development of the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $700,000.00 from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) is for a new start research project titled "Propellant Burning Rate Control Through Crystalline Oxidizer Microstructure". The project, which runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2028, is funded under the Department of Defense's Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431). It will be conducted by the California State University Long Beach...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $357,438,175 to support the commercial-scale deployment of an innovative, sustainable manufacturing process developed by Urbix, Inc. to produce lithium-ion battery anode-grade coated spherical purified graphite (CSPG) from natural flake graphite. The primary objective is to establish Urbix's first commercial...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), supports the recovery and recycling of end-of-life neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets through rare earth element extraction. The $10,245,214 award to Rare Resource Recycling Inc. will fund projects aimed at creating, maintaining, protecting, expanding, or restoring domestic industrial base capabilities essential for...