The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $9,248,010.00 Cooperative Agreement to Fortune Minerals LIMITED on May 16, 2024. The funding will support expanding domestic capacity and production of cobalt for the battery supply chain, with a performance period from May 16, 2024 to August 17, 2026. The DPA Title III Program focuses on creating, maintaining, protecting, expanding, or restoring domestic industrial base...
The Department of Defense, through its Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $53,709,226 Cooperative Agreement to Electra Battery Materials Corporation on August 19, 2024. The funding is for the construction of the Ontario Cobalt Sulfate Refinery, a project that aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The award supports the establishment of domestic production capacity for...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a $10,245,214 Cooperative Agreement under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program to Rare Resource Recycling Inc. The award, effective January 16, 2025, with a completion date of April 17, 2028, is focused on 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 essential for...
The Department of Defense (DOD) Washington Headquarters Service awarded a $23,626,790 Cooperative Agreement to Lithium Nevada Corp. under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program (CFDA 12.777) on August 5, 2024. The purpose of this award is to accelerate the Thacker Pass lithium mine project to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense. The DPA Title III Program focuses on funding projects across critical...
This $43,436,608.00 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on September 20, 2024 by the Washington Headquarters Service, a Defense agency, under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777). The purpose of the award is to establish low-cost domestic production capabilities for high-purity niobium, a critical material for defense applications. The prime awardee, Global Advanced Metals USA Inc., is a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer that has previously received over $34...
This $17,216,700 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Service under the Defense Production Act Title III (CFDA 12.777) program aims to sustain heavy forging production capabilities essential for national defense. The funding will be provided to Lehigh Heavy Forge Corp, a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities in this critical manufacturing area. The award has a...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III program (CFDA 12.777) provides $16,704,054 in funding to Lomiko Metals Inc. to expand domestic production capability and capacity of natural flake graphite in La Loutre, Canada. The project aims to reduce reliance on foreign sources and strengthen the United States' domestic production capacity for this strategically important defense-related material. The award has a...
The U.S. Department of Defense, through the Defense Production Act Title III (DPA Title III) program (CFDA 12.777), awarded a $69,387,060 Cooperative Agreement to Coorstek, Inc. (dba Coorstek Center For Advanced Materials) on December 27, 2023. The purpose of this award is to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense, specifically for the production and manufacturing of boron carbide, a critical material used in defense...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID FA86502525513, was provided by the Department of Defense under the Defense Production Act Title III (CFDA 12.777) program. The $31,550,974 award to Fireweed Metals Corp., located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, aims to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for national defense, specifically focused on domestic-source tungsten supply. The award has a performance period from December 12, 2024 to...