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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$387,202,943

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

to NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEFENSE MANUFACTURING AND MACHINING

defenseactive
ACTION DATE·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA86502025700_097
Award description

AMERICA MAKES PARTNERSHIP (AMP) THE NATIONAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING INNOVATION INSTITUTE

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds the America Makes Partnership to advance additive manufacturing innovation and capabilities for defense applications.

Sub-sectors
additive-manufacturingadvanced-manufacturingindustrial-base
Why this matters

Strengthens domestic advanced manufacturing capacity critical to military readiness and reduces reliance on foreign production.

Supply-chain signal

Signals investment in domestic 3D printing and additive manufacturing to build resilient defense industrial supply chains.

U.S.–China competition angle

Counters China's advances in additive manufacturing by developing U.S. capabilities for defense-critical components and systems.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-13. Cost: $0.001293.

Period of performance
Start
2019-11-25
End
2031-02-26
Status
activein 1749 days
Sources

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