ARPA-e LENR Program Kickoff

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-e division began a program to fund exploratory research in LENR and earlier this year chose eight projects from around the country to participate in a $10 million funding stream.

ARPA-e LENR Program
FIGURE 2-3 ARPA-E’s depiction of how it has built itself on a foundation modeled after DARPA.
NOTE: DoD = U.S. Department of Defense; R&D = research and development.
SOURCE: ARPA-E, 2015a. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. An Assessment of ARPA-E. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24778. Find this report here.

A Kickoff meeting was held in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 8, 2023 for the teams selected for support and presentation files have been posted. See project descriptions here.

Find the Kickoff Meeting agenda and presentation files here.

This program began after an educational campaign that included a LENR Workshop in 2021. The LENR research community gave a summary of the state of research though only a few at the workshop were awarded funding.

FIGURE 2-1 Schematic of ARPA-E’s internal process for program creation, project selection, and performer management. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. An Assessment of ARPA-E. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24778. Find this report here.
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