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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$536,656,761

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

to BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM

biotechactive
ACTION DATE—·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA86502125028_097
Award description

BIOMADE: THE BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM

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

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What the model surfaced from this award

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In plain English

Funds BIOMADE ecosystem to develop bioindustrial manufacturing capabilities and design for defense and industrial applications.

Sub-sectors
biomanufacturingindustrial-biotechnologydefense-applications
Why this matters

Establishes domestic biomanufacturing infrastructure to reduce reliance on foreign biological production and strengthen defense supply chains.

Supply-chain signal

Signals investment in upstream biotech manufacturing capacity and downstream integration with defense industrial base.

U.S.–China competition angle

Counters China's advances in synthetic biology and biomanufacturing by building U.S. domestic capabilities for strategic materials and defense applications.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-13. Cost: $0.001343.

Period of performance
Start
2020-10-19
End
2028-01-10
Status
activein 606 days
Recipient
BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM
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