Request for New Partnership Project Agreement

Partner Project Agreements will have a start date determined by the latter date of the agreements execution or funds received. IPP or Division Admin will notify PI of the official start date.

Please describe the proposed project in a 1-2 sentences. This is not the FINAL Abstract.

Enter the First Name Last Name, Email address.

If you are unsure, please review the AMES Principal Investigator (PI) Eligibility ServiceNow Knowledge Article.

Single Party: Ames and Partner Multi Party: Ames, Partner 1, Partner, 2, etc. If Multi Party is selected, you will be prompted to enter each Partners Company/University name.

If you are ensure, select "Unknown, please review."

These funds come from the Director's Discretionary funds due an awarded proposal. The Director's permission would have been granted at the proposal stage. If yes, enter the agreed upon amount. If not or unknown, leave it at 0.

Include an cash cost share. Provide total of the entire project.

BASIC RESEARCH – Research undertaken primarily to acquire new knowledge without any particular application or use in mind. APPLIED RESEARCH– Research conducted to gain the knowledge or understanding to meet a specific, recognized need. EXPERIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT – The systematic use of the knowledge or understanding gained from research and practical experience directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods, including the design and development of prototypes and processes. NON-RESEARCH – Includes outreach & training programs, routine testing, policy development and non-R&D Program implementation

This is a new Office of Technology Transitions reporting requirement for FY2024. Select "Yes" or "No" to designate whether this agreement is in Critical Materials and Minerals work, as defined below.

Critical Materials are defined by the Energy Act of 2020 as:

Any non-fuel mineral, element, substance, or material that the Secretary of Energy determines: (i) has a high risk of supply chain disruption; and (ii) serves an essential function in one or more energy technologies, including technologies that produce, transmit, store, and conserve energy;

Critical materials for energy: aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium.

A critical mineral, as defined by the Secretary of the Interior

Critical minerals: The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), published a 2022 final list of critical minerals that includes the following 50 minerals: “Aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barite, beryllium, bismuth, cerium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorspar, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, graphite, hafnium, holmium, indium, iridium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, praseodymium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.”

The lists in the sub bullets above are based on the assessment described in DOE’s most recent critical materials assessment, the 2023 DOE Critical Materials Assessment.

As of 5/22/2025, coal is now considered a critical material.

Think about if there will be any restrictions related to the information in the proposal? If entering into a Partnership Project Agreement, are we able to publish on our results or are we required to wait until the agreement has been completed or reviewed by the other party?

Select all that apply.

Select all that apply.

For more information on Controlled Unclassified Information visit the following link: https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/submission-basics/protected-sti