BioP2P Staff
The U.S. Department of Defense announced seven additional awards worth nearly a total of $12 million to bioindustrial firms through the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program.
The new grants raise the total grants made through the program to $23 million through 13 awards.
The awardees include Battelle in Columbus, Ohio; Modular Genetics in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Genomatica in San Diego; Industrial Microbes in Alameda, California; ZymoChem in San Leandro, California; The Better Meat Co. in West Sacramento, California; and Biosphere, in Oakland, California.
The awards represent an effort on the part of the Biden administration to bolster America’s bioeconomic strengths while helping the DoD achieve advanced defense capabilities.
“Expanding the Department of Defense’s biotechnology capabilities is key to maintaining the United States’ supply chain and military superiority,” said Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu, as she announced the conferment of this third group of awards.
Companies will receive funding to produce business and technical plans that detail construction of domestic bioindustrial manufacturing production facilities under the Defense Industrial Base Consortium Other Transaction Agreement. Successful projects that were selected under the competitive announcement can receive follow-on awards that would provide access to up to $100 million to build a U.S.-based bioindustrial manufacturing facility.
A full description of the new slate of awards can be found here.