Project Calls
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.
October 15 - December 13, 2024
2024 Advanced Materials Challenge Project Call
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.