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Awards/PROJECT GRANT (B)

$100,000,000

Department of Energy·Department of Energy

to MITRA FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

critical-mineralsexpiring · 0d· period of performance ends in 0 daysONGOING · MOD OF 2025 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2025-01-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_DEMS0000108_089
Award description

BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) AMERICAN PRODUCTION OF LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE AND FUTURE INNOVATION (AMPLIFI) THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO ESTABLISH 15 KILO TONNES PER ANNUM (KTPA) OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY OF IRA-COMPLIANT LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE (LFP) CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIALS FOR ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS (ESS) AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) APPLICATIONS.

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

Establishes 15,000 tonnes per year of domestic LFP cathode manufacturing for EV and energy storage batteries under the 2025 AMPLIFI program.

Sub-sectors
lithium-iron-phosphatebattery-cathode-materialsdomestic-manufacturing
Why this matters

Reduces U.S. dependence on foreign battery-material suppliers; critical for EV supply chains and grid storage as electrification accelerates.

Supply-chain signal

Upstream: drives demand for refined lithium and precursor chemicals; downstream: enables domestic EV and battery-pack manufacturers to source IRA-compliant cathode materials domestically.

U.S.–China competition angle

China dominates global LFP cathode production; this investment directly counters that monopoly and supports domestic EV competitiveness under IRA rules.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-28. Cost: $0.003203.

Period of performance
Start
2025-01-01
End
2026-06-30
Status
expiring · 0din 0 days
Sources

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