MI national guard starbase program cooperative agreement - 4102 starbase battle creek

The DOD Washington Headquarters Service awarded Michigan National Guard a cooperative agreement worth $693,846 on October 1, 2025, under the STARBASE Program (CFDA 12.020) to deliver STEM education and mentoring services to underserved middle and high school youth in Battle Creek, Michigan.

STARBASE is a congressionally directed afterschool and school-based mentoring initiative that combines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics instruction with relationship-rich programming designed to improve student knowledge and skills in support of a technologically advanced American workforce. This award funds the STARBASE Battle Creek site, one of multiple National Guard STARBASE locations across Michigan.

The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. All work is performed in Michigan. The assistance type is a cooperative agreement; this is a non-discretionary award available only to National Guard entities in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam, administered through each state's Adjutant General office. Recipients must maintain cost and expenditure records for three years following close-out of the agreement.