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$86,166,433

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

to LACAMAS LABORATORIES INC

defenseactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2023 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2023-12-11·LATEST ACTION2026-04-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA86502425554_097
Award description

DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TITLE III PROGRAM, CONTINUOUS TECHNOLOGIES FOR TON-SCALE CRITICAL CHEMICAL PRODUCTION

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

Latest obligation on a 2023 Defense Production Act contract to scale up domestic production of critical chemicals for defense applications.

Sub-sectors
defense-production-actchemical-manufacturingcritical-materials
Why this matters

Reduces U.S. reliance on foreign chemical suppliers for military-critical materials; part of broader effort to rebuild domestic industrial capacity.

Supply-chain signal

Signals government commitment to onshoring chemical production; may incentivize other suppliers to invest in U.S. manufacturing capacity for defense-grade inputs.

U.S.–China competition angle

Directly counters dependence on Chinese and other foreign sources for ton-scale chemical production essential to U.S. defense manufacturing.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-31. Cost: $0.002938.

Period of performance
Start
2023-12-11
End
2028-12-14
Status
activein 885 days
Sources

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