OPPORTUNITY:
BioMADE is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with a vision to build a sustainable, domestic, end-to-end bioindustrial manufacturing ecosystem. BioMADE is now accepting submissions for projects that accelerate technology development related to mitigating the causes and consequences of global climate change through bioindustrial manufacturing. The Sustainable Logistics for Advanced Manufacturing (SLAM) Project Call focuses on:
- Sustainable food production: Innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at and/or transport to DoD operational environments.
- Converting waste to bioproducts: Valorizing waste streams by directly using them as feedstocks.
- Carbon capture technologies: Processes that convert greenhouse gases including CO2 or methane into bioproducts that are of industrial use and are recalcitrant to degradation.
- Lowering the resources requirements for processing steps: Innovations in scale-up production or downstream processing steps that substantially reduce resource requirements to improve the net sustainability of biomanufacturing
- Mitigating environmental impacts: Developing bioproducts useful in mitigating the negative environmental impacts either regionally or globally.
DESCRIPTION:
BioMADE is committed to promoting and advancing greater diversity, equity, and inclusion within the biomanufacturing field. BioMADE seeks partners who have a demonstrated ability to achieve biomanufacturing innovation and a commitment to advancing opportunities that foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workforce. BioMADE partners are expected to demonstrate their commitment and strategy for achieving a diverse workforce through their proposed implementation plan.
Together with the DoD, BioMADE is interested in accelerating technology development related to mitigating the causes and consequences of global climate change, particularly when these intersect with bioindustrial manufacturing.
Bioindustrial manufacturing offers the ability to create new molecules and materials with unique and desirable physicochemical properties, as well as cost- competitive drop-in replacements for petrochemicals with well-established markets. Further, it can leverage carbon-neutral or carbon- negative processes, thus mitigating the climate impact of manufacturing. Establishing the commercial viability of these product-markets is high risk, because vetting new material in an individual application can require 10-100 kg of material or more for testing and evaluation.
Successful proposals will describe projects with the potential to mitigate the causes or consequences of global climate change. Proposals must highlight their technology and a DoD-relevant use-case of the innovation in one of the Project Call focus areas.
ELIGIBILITY AND MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS:
- The lead submitting organization must be a member in good standing, with a signed membership agreement, at the time of white paper submission (no later than July 1, 2024).
- All partner organization(s) must be members in good standing, with a signed membership agreement at the time of white paper submission (no later than July 1, 2024).
- If an organization is not a current BioMADE member, it will need to return a signed membership agreement to BioMADE by June 28, 2024. This deadline applies to lead and partner organizations.
- To meet the eligibility requirements of being a “member in good standing,” the lead and all partner organizations must be current members, with signed membership agreements and cash membership dues paid in full, at the time of white paper submission (no later than July 1, 2024).
COST SHARING:
Funded projects must include a minimum of 1:1 cost share from awarded teams. Cost Share of greater than 1:1 is strongly encouraged and will be judged favorably in review. Cost share is an important part of BioMADE, which is funded through a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Department of Defense. Project awardees receiving funds from BioMADE are sub- recipients under the Cooperative Agreement.
APPLICATION KEY DATES:
- July 1, 2024: White Papers due by 5:00 pm PT.
- September 18, 2024: Full proposals due by 5:00 pm PT.
