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.
Successful proposals will identify a relevant DoD use-case for the technology, process, or bioproduct developed as part of their project.