Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$316,700,135

Department of Defense·Department of the Air Force

defenseactive

ACTION DATE2026-04-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_FA86502025506_097

Award description

NEXTFLEX PARTNERSHIP

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

Funds NEXTFLEX partnership to advance flexible electronics manufacturing capabilities for defense applications.

Sub-sectors

advanced-manufacturingflexible-electronicsaerospace-materials

Why this matters

Flexible electronics are critical for next-generation military systems, sensors, and wearables; domestic manufacturing strengthens supply chain resilience.

Supply-chain signal

Signals investment in U.S.-based flexible electronics production ecosystem, reducing reliance on foreign suppliers for defense-critical components.

U.S.–China competition angle

Counters China's advances in flexible display and electronics manufacturing; establishes domestic capability for military-grade flexible technology.

Generated by award_classification v1.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-14. Cost: $0.001335.

Period of performance

Start

2020-06-09

End

2028-09-08

Status

activein 847 days

Sources

Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier ASST_NON_FA86502025506_097.

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