Project Grant 09SE9024

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $14,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Queens Carbon, Inc. under the ARPA-E Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.135) to scale up the company's Q-System technology for producing engineered supplementary cementitious materials (SCM). The goal is to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of this cement decarbonization technology and its ease of integration into existing cement production...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Infleqtion (doing business as Coldquanta, Inc.) received a $5.27 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on January 9, 2026, for the ENCODE (Enhancing Neutral-Atom Computers for Optimizing Delivery of Energy) project. The three-year award, with a completion date of January 8, 2029, funds the development of quantum computing algorithms and scalable neutral-atom quantum computing...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Columbia University received a $2.07 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, effective April 8, 2026, with a completion date of March 7, 2029. This award supports research and development activities under the "Realize Energy-Rich Compound Opportunities Valorizing Extraction from Refuse Waters" (RECOVER) initiative, which focuses on advancing innovative technologies for rare...

Health Quality Partners of Southern California (HQP) received a $1,215,984 Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion under the Organized Approaches to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening program (CFDA 93.800) effective August 30, 2025, through August 29, 2030. HQP will implement a multi-component, systems-based initiative to increase colorectal cancer screening rates among adults aged...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary New York University received a $4.8 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) on August 21, 2025, to develop innovative solutions for reducing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and improving nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in bioenergy crops through transcription factor (TF) regulon engineering. The project, titled "TF Regulon Engineering: Reducing N2O Emissions by Increasing NUE in Bioenergy...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois received a $2.56 million cooperative agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, awarded on March 16, 2026, with a completion date of March 15, 2029. Under this award, the University of Illinois will develop and innovate a robust and regenerable functional biomaterial designed to enable highly selective recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from aqueous waste streams....

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $4.75 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) effective April 15, 2026, through April 14, 2030. Under the TEOSYNTE (Technologies to Emend and Obviate Synthetic Nitrogen's Toll on Emissions) program, the university will develop NSAVE maize (N2O Suppression and Ammonium Availability Enhancement) by stacking innovative genetic traits...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Colorado State University received a $5.4 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, awarded March 17, 2026, for research extending through March 16, 2030. Under the TEOSYNTE (Technologies to Emend and Obviate Synthetic Nitrogen's Toll on Emissions) program, the university will conduct integrated investigations into the mechanistic basis of nitrogen (N) use efficiency variation in maize and...

Summary of PROTECT-AR Cooperative Agreement Award The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Primary Care Population Health Service Line received a $1,633,260 cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, effective August 30, 2025 through August 29, 2030, under the Organized Approaches to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening program (CFDA 93.800). The PROTECT-AR initiative implements...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary Washington State University received a $3.32 million Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded on August 22, 2025, for the demonstration and development of Caustic Aqueous Phase Reforming (C-APR) technology. This groundbreaking hydrogen production system converts raw bioethanol—a widely available U.S. feedstock—into highly pure hydrogen (≥99%) at costs at or below $3 per kilogram. The...