DPA Title III Rare Earth Element Separation and Processing Project — Call 005 under FA8650-19-S-5010 (2020)

Call 005 under the Air Force Research Laboratory's hybrid funding opportunity announcement FA8650-19-S-5010 ('Defense Production Act Title III Expansion of Domestic Production Capability and Capacity'), titled 'Call 005 Rare Earth Element (REE) Separation and Processing Project'. Posted on Grants.gov February 11, 2020 with responses due March 2, 2020 and the synopsis archived April 1, 2020. The statement of objectives (dated December 12, 2019) sought domestic capabilities to separate and process at least 500 metric tons per year of light rare earth element end products (NdPr mixed oxide and/or neodymium and praseodymium oxides, with lanthanum oxide and SEG+ capability) under a 50/50 cost-share technology investment agreement. The November 2020 MP Materials and early-2021 Lynas USA light rare earth separation technology investment agreements (instruments mp-title-iii-lree-2020 and lynas-title-iii-lree-2021) match this call's scope; the award announcements do not name the call number, so that attribution is recorded as inferred.

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