The United States Department of Defense announced the first award for the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program to expand domestic supply chains and bolster the bioindustrial manufacturing base: https://lnkd.in/esMBQv6J
Debut, a San Diego-based company, has been awarded $2 million through the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to develop comprehensive business and technical plans for constructing a domestic bioindustrial manufacturing production facility. If successful, this project could lead to follow-on awards that would provide access of up to $100 million to build a facility.
"This award marks an important step — the first of many — for the DIBC OTA, and shows the progress we are making toward building more resilient supply chains, growing our manufacturing workforce, and using more flexible acquisition authorities," said Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy.
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