The U.S. Department of Energy announced its intent to issue notices of funding opportunities totaling nearly $1 billion to advance and scale mining, processing, and manufacturing technologies across key stages of the critical minerals and materials supply chains. Among those, the Rare Earth Demonstration Facility NOFO (DE-FOA-0003586) has a budget of up to $135M, and requires academic-industry partnerships to support the development of a facility that extracts, separates, and refines rare earth elements from unconventional feedstocks such as acid mine drainage, mine waste, and e-waste.
The session will also spotlight other key DOE funding opportunities, including the Mines and Metals Capacity Expansion (DE-FOA-0003582) with up to $250M to support pilot-scale facilities that recover valuable critical minerals and materials from industrial byproducts, the Critical Minerals and Materials Accelerator (DE-FOA-0003588) with up to $50M to advance innovative processing technologies from bench-scale to pilot-scale through industry-led partnerships, the Battery Materials Processing and Manufacturing & Recycling Program (DE-FOA-0003584) with up to $500M to expand U.S. capabilities in battery supply chains, the ARPA-E ROCKS program to develop $40M of projects creating tools to rapidly evaluate the feasibility of an ore deposits, and the ARPA-E RECOVER program extracting critical minerals from industrial wastewater will announce up to $40M of projects this fall.
DOE Critical Minerals and Materials Supply Chain Announcement (Opportunity Kick Off)
Registration: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/NUHBe6lXTmWOH-WPKDOPYQ
Date: September 23rd, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm–2:00 pm AZ
Location: Zoom
Presenters:
- Scott Barclay, Assistant Vice President, Office of VP Research Development
- Elaine Armfield, Senior Director, Corporate Engagement & Strategic Partnerships
- Quyen Wickham, Capture Manager, Research Engagement Office, Knowledge Enterprise
- Laura York, Proposal Manager, Research Development, Knowledge Enterprise
- Raghu Santanam, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, Corporate Partnerships and Lifelong Learning
- Other presenters across critical mineral and materials at ASU to be announced
