DARPA is offering this grant to significantly reduce barriers to manufacturing innovation, enhance production speed, and improve the affordability of materials, components, and structures across various industries. This grant is specifically designed to foster advancements that enable more rapid, adaptable, and energy-efficient manufacturing and fabrication processes. It achieves its objectives by strategically investing in groundbreaking technologies, promoting the development and adoption of comprehensive manufacturing design, simulation, and performance prediction tools, and facilitating exposure to crucial best practices within the field. The program particularly seeks the development and demonstration of innovative technologies that will reduce impediments to the efficient manufacturing of affordable, highly competitive products, ensuring their rapid entry into service at low fiscal and environmental costs.
Opportunity ID: 91993
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | DARPA-BAA-11-54 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Open Manufacturing |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement Grant Other Procurement Contract |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 12.910 — Research and Technology Development |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 05, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 23, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jun 23, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | Jul 22, 2011 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | DARPA – Defense Sciences Office |
| Description: | The vision of the Open Manufacturing program is to reduce barriers to manufacturing innovation, speed, and affordability of materials, components, and structures. This will be achieved by 1) investing in technologies to enable affordable, rapid, adaptable, energy-efficient manufacturing and fabrication processes, 2) promoting comprehensive manufacturing design, simulation and performance prediction tools, and 3) facilitating exposure to best practices. Specifically, the program will seek development and demonstration of technologies that reduce impediments to the efficient manufacturing of affordable, competitive products that rapidly enter into service at low fiscal and environmental costs.
See attached DARPA-BAA-11-54 |
| Link to Additional Information: | DARPA-BAA-11-54 |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
BAA Coordinator
Email:DARPA-BAA-11-54@darpa.mil |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 91993 Full Announcement-1 -> darpa-baa-11-54.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | BAA Coordinator Email: DARPA-BAA-11-54@darpa.mil |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.910 | PKG00052110 | May 05, 2011 | Jun 23, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
91993 RR_SF424-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
91993 RR_FedNonFedBudget-1.1.pdf
91993 RR_FedNonFed_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf
91993 RR_OtherProjectInfo-1.1.pdf
91993 RR_Budget-1.1.pdf
91993 RR_KeyPersonExpanded-1.1.pdf
91993 RR_PerformanceSite-1.1.pdf
91993 RR_SubawardBudget-1.2.pdf