Project Selection for Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility

Project Selection for Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility

Minerals To Materials Supply Chain Facility (METALLIC) — The National Energy Technology Laboratory (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will lead the Minerals to Materials Supply Chain Facility (METALLIC) project, which includes participation from eight other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories (Ames National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). METALLIC will deliver the highest impact return on DOE’s investment by creating an innovative ecosystem under a virtual roof that leverages the nation’s leading capabilities for accelerating and de-risking critical minerals and materials technology development and commercialization. The team will achieve this by integrating process modeling and optimization; artificial intelligence and machine learning for energy, materials, and geoscience research; life cycle analysis; data science and warehousing; and supply chain analysis and modeling capabilities. METALLIC will both leverage and expand national lab capabilities and will secure and share data generated from this project to: inform experiments and technology/process design, improve simulations and de-risk novel processes to enable rapid industry adoption, and establish research priorities and performance metrics to enable development of domestic critical minerals and materials supply chain.

DOE Funding: $75,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $1,000,000
Total Value: $76,000,000