Cooperative Agreement FA86502325552

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $1,951,361.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The objective of the project is to produce magnesium (Mg) from new magnesium chloride (MgCl2) brines, leveraging optimized eutectics. The project aims to analyze a variety of electrolytes to discover compositions that allow deep eutectic...

The Department of Defense's Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program has awarded a $8,674,454 Cooperative Agreement to Rare Earth Salts Separations And Refining LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Beatrice, Nebraska. The award, with a performance period from September 2024 to December 2026, supports the commercial production of heavy rare earth elements recovered from recycled lamp phosphors. This project aims to develop domestic industrial capabilities for processing...

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 (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777), has awarded a $23,626,790 Cooperative Agreement to Lithium Nevada Corp. to accelerate the development of the Thacker Pass lithium mine. The award, effective August 5, 2024, will support domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense by expanding U.S. production of critical lithium resources over the next three years until the project's ultimate completion date of August...

This $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), will support Boston Electrometallurgical Corp (doing business as Boston Metal) in developing chromium ATR metallurgy with plasma melting and hot isostatic pressing capabilities to produce near-net-shape high-temperature alloy parts. The project aims to strengthen domestic manufacturing capabilities...

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 Department of Energy awarded a $19,974,887 Cooperative Agreement to Corepower Magnetics Inc. under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to establish a 10,000-ton-per-year soft magnetic amorphous metal production facility capable of meeting distribution transformer standards. This facility aims to boost domestic supply chain resiliency of transformers and motors for grid and electric vehicle applications, reducing...

The Department of Energy 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 supports the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's objective of strengthening domestic manufacturing capabilities for advanced battery...