Unlocking New Levels of Output and Capacity for Key Subsurface Resources (UNLOCK)
Overview
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NOFO Number: DE-FOA-0003630 - Unlocking New Levels of Output and Capacity for Key Subsurface Resources (UNLOCK) To obtain a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) please go to DOE eXCHANGE at https://exchange.energy.gov/. To apply to this NOFO, Applicants must register with and submit application materials through DOE eXCHANGE (https://exchange.energy.gov/Registration.aspx). For detailed
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Energy & Climate, Chemicals & Materials, Other
- Technology
- Advanced Materials
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
- Needs verification
Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $3M ~ $5M
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- $45M
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- Needs verification
Cost sharing/matching 요구가 있습니다 — 비율은 공고 원문 확인 필요.
- Matching fund
- Required
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
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Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
See Section II.A. of the NOFO.
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
Application process not captured.
Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
No risk assessment yet. Re-analyse from Admin.
IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
No IP assessment yet.
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
- Needs verification
- Needs verification
- Nothing flagged
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/364136
- Last fetched
- 2026.11.04
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.10.29
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
- Needs verification
- PRIMARYGrants.gov DE-FOA-0003630
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- OFFICIAL_APIGrants.gov Search2 API
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