Defense Production Act Title III, Advanced Carbon Nanotube Volume Production Facility | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Defense Production Act Title III, Advanced Carbon Nanotube Volume Production Facility," was a Department of Defense effort to build or strengthen U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for advanced carbon nanotubes at production scale. It was issued under the Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program, which is designed to ensure the United States has reliable domestic sources for materials, components, and industrial capabilities that are considered essential to national defense. In practical terms, the opportunity sought proposals that would function as production technology partnerships, meaning applicants were expected not just to perform laboratory research, but to help mature, scale, and operationalize manufacturing processes and facilities that could deliver meaningful production volumes of advanced carbon nanotube materials.

The program was managed at the Office of the Secretary of Defense level and executed by the DoD Executive Agent Program Office within the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), specifically the Manufacturing Technology Division (AFRL/RXM) in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. The Air Force serves as the DoD Executive Agent for DPA Title III, so it acts on behalf of the broader Department of Defense to run projects aimed at reducing supply chain risk and preventing dependence on foreign sources for defense-critical technologies. The focus on an "Advanced Carbon Nanotube Volume Production Facility" signals that the government was looking for an industrially relevant capability, typically involving scalable processes, quality control, repeatability, throughput, and the ability to support downstream defense applications that depend on consistent material performance.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, the announcement was posted on April 5, 2010 and closed on May 17, 2010, with an archive date of June 16, 2010. The opportunity category was discretionary, and it allowed for multiple funding instrument types, including cooperative agreements, grants, procurement contracts, and other arrangements, giving the government flexibility to structure awards based on the nature of the proposed partnership and deliverables. It fell under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category, and it was associated with CFDA number 12.800 (Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program). A cost sharing or matching requirement applied, indicating that awardees were expected to contribute non-federal resources (such as cash, in-kind contributions, facilities, equipment, labor, or other allowable support) to help execute the project and demonstrate shared commitment to establishing sustainable domestic production capability.

Eligibility was described as "unrestricted," meaning the competition was broadly open to various types of entities, subject to any further clarifications in the full solicitation text. In typical DPA Title III contexts, this can include private companies, manufacturers, universities, nonprofit research organizations, and consortia, especially when the project requires both technology development and industrial-scale implementation. The key expectation is usually that the proposing team can credibly plan and execute the steps needed to create or expand U.S. production capacity, rather than conducting purely exploratory research. Because the solicitation emphasizes a production technology partnership and a volume production facility, proposals would likely have been evaluated on the realism of the scale-up plan, technical maturity of the production approach, quality and consistency targets, supply chain considerations, facilities readiness, schedule, budget, and the degree to which the resulting capability would be available and sustainable for defense needs.

For access issues related to the full announcement, the point of contact listed was Jason Correll, Agreements Negotiator, reachable at (937) 255-5526.

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