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Reliable Ore Characterization with Keystone Sensing (ROCKS)

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DE-FOA-0003592Grant

Submission Closed12/08/2025, 02:30:00 PM UTC

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Solicitation # USDA-NIFA-TOPIC-8.6

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2 days ago

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General Info

Agency

Department Of Energy → Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

NAICS

541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

Place of Performance

Not specified

Set-Aside

NONE

Documents

DE-FOA-0003592: Reliable Ore Characterization with Keystone Sensing (ROCKS)

rfp

High

DE-FOA-0003592 ROCKS Modification 01

amendment

High

ROCKS Full Application Technical Volume Template

specifications

High

ARPA-E_112, SF-424

other

Low

ARPA-E 347 Replies to Reviewer Comments Template

supporting-document

Low

ARPA-E 348 Summary for Public Release Template

other

Low

ARPA-E Business Assurances and Disclosures Form

other

Low

ROCKS Concept Paper Template

other

Low

ARPA-E_111_Budget_Justification_Workbook_SF-424A.xlsx

ROCKS_CP_Summary_Slide_Template.pptx

ROCKS_Full_Application_Summary_Slide_Template.pptx

SF-424: Application for Federal Assistance and SF-LLL: Disclosure of Lobbying Activities

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PostedAug 25

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Response DeadlineDec 8

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Submission Closed

12/08/2025, 02:30:00 PM UTC

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyDepartment Of Energy → Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Contacts2 people available

OfficeUSA

Organization / AgencyDepartment Of Energy → Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Office AddressUSA

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ARPA-E eXCHANGE Help

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ARPA-E Contracting Officer

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Full Description

Encourage/Discourage notification letters were released and the Full Application NOFO was posted October 30, 2025.

Rare earth elements (REEs) and critical minerals are essential for modern energy technologies. REEs are key to high-performance magnets and motors, superconductors, and catalysts—critical components to energy production, transmission, and conversion systems necessary for U.S. energy security. Affordable and secure domestic critical mineral supply chains will advance future energy competitiveness. The U.S. possesses significant domestic resources of REEs and other critical minerals but operates only one productive REE mine.

The ROCKS program seeks fundamentally disruptive technologies to transform the ore deposit characterization process. The program will pursue technology that targets order-of-magnitude improvements in characterization with a primary focus on drilling, sensing, and analysis. These advances will shorten the timeline for feasibility assessments of REE and critical mineral deposits, leading to increased access to these resources. In addition, advances in sensing can aid assessment of currently untapped resources, such as seafloor mineral deposits.

By facilitating mine development and increased access to domestic mineral resources, the program furthers ARPA-E’s statutory goals to improve the energy security of the U.S., ensure resilient and reliable supply chains for energy-relevant materials, and maintain U.S. technological leadership in critical mineral resource development.

The ROCKS program seeks technologies that improve the characterization of critical mineral resources, with an emphasis on REEs. Technologies of interest are grouped into three main categories: (1) drilling technology to increase penetration rates and core recovery; (2) sensing and analysis technologies to provide higher-resolution mineralogical and geochemical information, in situ or at a distance; and (3) other unique concepts that disrupt the current state of resource characterization for hard rock settings as well as REE-enriched clays, placer deposits, and seafloor resources.

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