LIFT’s project calls offer our ecosystem the opportunity to submit proposals on topics designed to Drive American Manufacturing Into the Future. Project Calls can either be directed projects on specific topic areas from our federal partners or open to new ideas you and your organization might have.
Whichever form they take, each Project Call will have its own unique membership and submission requirements and funding opportunities, so see the open calls below for more information or contact LIFT directly with any questions.
LIFT and the Department of Defense today announced the launch of the 2024 Advanced Materials Challenge. The Advanced Materials Challenge is designed for industry and academia from across the nation to develop and accelerate the delivery of innovative material solutions for DoD applications.
Proposals should focus on identifying an advanced material of interest to DoD, design using decision aid tools and automation tools (i.e. ICME, M&S, AI, LLM , ML, etc.), prototyping both virtual and physical material systems (i.e. Digital Twin), and demonstrating the material’s applicability in a DoD component or system.
In the realm of aerospace technology, the race to develop propulsion systems capable of powering vehicles at hypersonic speeds has never been more intense. Hypersonic flight, defined as speeds above Mach 5, is now within our grasp, thanks in no small part to the fusion of 3D printing and cutting-edge materials. Click below to read more.
With the publication of the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), Secretary Austin charted the Defense Department’s way forward through today’s “decisive decade.” Taking its lead from the NDS, this first-ever National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) will catalyze generational change from the existing defense industrial base to a more robust, resilient, and dynamic modernized defense industrial ecosystem.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense Manufacturing Technology Program (OSD ManTech) oversees DOD’s relationship with the DoD national manufacturing innovation institutes.
The DOD Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) are considered an integral part of the wider DOD Manufacturing Technology Program.