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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$49,233,779

Department of Defense·Defense Threat Reduction Agency

to THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

defenseactive
WORK BEGAN2020-07-01·LATEST ACTION·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_HDTRA12020001_097
Award description

MATERIALS SCIENCE IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Johns Hopkins conducts materials science research in extreme environments for DTRA under a cooperative agreement.

Sub-sectors
dod-basic-researchmaterials-scienceuniversity-cooperative-agreement
Why this matters

Advanced materials in extreme conditions underpin U.S. nuclear deterrent reliability and advanced defense systems.

Supply-chain signal

Fundamental research feeds into defense industrial base capabilities for specialized materials in weapons systems.

U.S.–China competition angle

Materials science is strategic competition domain; U.S. superiority in extreme-environment materials enables defense technology leadership.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.007399.

Period of performance
Start
2020-07-01
End
2027-12-31
Status
activein 549 days
Sources

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