Due: June 20, 2025

The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in advanced materials and manufacturing. Aligned with U.S. national priorities and critical technologies, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in areas such as advanced materials and nanotechnology, additive manufacturing and 3D printing, defense industrial base manufacturing, rare earths and critical materials, materials for hypersonics, in-space manufacturing, energy and sustainable materials, AI for materials and manufacturing, characterization and imaging, biomaterials and biofabrication, and more.