AMMTO — DOE Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office

Funds advanced materials and manufacturing technology research to improve manufacturing performance and modern industry innovation.

DOE AMMTO is the Department of Energy's advanced materials and manufacturing office, now operating under CMEI after the 2026 reorganization. It funds work on advanced materials, manufacturing processes, clean-energy supply chains, and workforce development, with a visible emphasis on getting lab results into production settings rather than treating materials research as a purely academic exercise.

The office uses FOAs, competitive prizes, RFPs, and lab-embedded fellowship programs. Recent examples include CMMA topics in production and material efficiency, semiconductor material refining, and lithium recovery; the LEEP fellowship line; and education and workforce development awards to the clean-energy manufacturing institutes. Recent opportunity sizes ranged from $2.5 million to $10 million for individual calls, with larger efforts such as the $7.49 million Community Energy Innovation Prize and a $3.6 million workforce award spread across five institutes.

AMMTO is a strong fit for teams that can connect materials science to manufacturing scale-up, supply-chain resilience, or workforce capacity. Delivery runs through Manufacturing USA institutes, DOE national labs, the NREL-run American-Made Challenges platform, and other partner institutions, so applicants usually need both a technical case and a route to deployment.