IACMI Project White Paper Template

Project Title:

Project Keywords (up to five):

Lead IACMI Member Applicant Organization: Name and location (city, state)

Lead IACMI Member Applicant Principal Investigator or Project Point of Contact: Name, affiliation, address, email, phone

IACMI Team Member Organizations (other than IACMI Core Partners): Name and location (city, state)

IACMI Team Member SMEs (companies with < 500 employees): Name

Project Type: Enterprise, Technical Collaboration

Target Clean Energy Market(s): Vehicles, Wind Turbines, &/or Compressed Gas Storage; Other

IACMI Technology Area resources: MI (Vehicles), OH (Compressed Gas Storage), CO (Wind), TN (Materials & Manufacturing Processes), IN (Modeling & Simulation)

Current Technology Readiness Level (TRL)or Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL):

Expected TRL or MRL at the conclusion of the project:

Applicant acknowledges and certifies it understands the membership requirements and that IACMI will only negotiate contractual project agreements with IACMI Consortium Members.

Maximum 5 page count for Proposal Narrative (Project Description and Work Plan)

Project Description (2-3 pages)

The Project Description should highlight the most important features of:

  • Proposed technology innovation(s) and how it (they) represent advancements versus current manufacturing practice or incumbent technology, and
  • Summary of proposed commercialization approach including target markets, product or manufacturing process opportunities, commercialization/technology deployment time line, US Manufacturing, barriers to market penetration, competition, and legal/regulatory considerations.
  • Key technical and commercial risks and risk mitigation strategies. Clearly describe risks to successful completion of project and what steps are proposed to minimize and provide contingency for them.

The Project Description should explain how the project addresses key Project Selection Criteria including:

  • Relevance – how the project supports IACMI’s clean energy mission, targets specified market(s), and addresses metrics such as reduction of embodied energy, life cycle energy savings, lowers manufacturing cost, reduces manufacturing cycle time, includes enabling technologies such as composites recycling, modeling and simulation
  • Impact – how the project aligns with technology needs/challenge identified in IACMI’s composites technology themes, involves timely development, i.e. rationale for current Technology Readiness Level (TRL) or Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL); generates “market pull” by aligning with an Original Equipment Supplier (OEM) or major industry value chain participant; delivers public economic benefit (US competitiveness, jobs, SME growth, workforce development, training, etc.). Discuss how the project contributes to and accelerates progress toward commercial deployment.
  • Resources – Resources (public and private sector funds, facilities, equipment, staff qualifications) of the Member Project Team and IACMI Technology Areas and Facilities needed to accomplish project goals in the specified time frame.

Work Plan (2-3 page maximum)

The Work Plan should include a concise summary of:

  • Project Deliverables, i.e. what will be delivered upon successful completion of the project (prototype, data, design or manufacturing tools, etc.)
  • High-Level Work Breakdown Structure, i.e. brief description of each of 3-5 major tasks and responsibility for each (to the extent possible, Projects should utilize industry standards for conducting and reporting materials testing, characterization, and resulting data)

Task 1:

Task 1.1:

Task 1.2:

Task 2:

Task 2.1:

Task 2.2:

…

  • Schedule including start and end of each task (Months from Project Start)
  • Major High-Level Project Milestones, i.e. 3-5 major milestones with metric of success, minimum of 1 milestone/quarter

Milestone 1:

Milestone 2:

Milestone 3:

…

Budget Summary(not included in page count)

The budget summary should identify amounts and the source(s) of non-federal cost share (cash and In-kind) and the uses of funds (i.e. approximate annual allocations to each IACMI resource and to each high-level task). Form EERE 335 can be used as a template and Form SF424A (part of Form 335) can be used to summarize budgets. These forms are available on the IACMI website. Letters of Commitment for cost share to the project should be included.

Supporting Information(2 pages maximum, not included in Proposal Narrative page count)

IACMI encourages Applicants to include supporting literature references and supporting data.

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