METALLIC Industry Partnership Program (MIPP) Kickoff Workshop - PROCEEDINGS

• Monday, July 27, 2026

Welcome and Meeting Objectives
Tom Tarka, Senior Engineer, NETL and Director, METALLIC

Fireside Chat With the Assistant Secretary
Audrey Robertson, Assistant Secretary, DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI)

Overview of METALLIC
Tom Tarka, Senior Engineer, NETL and Director, METALLIC

Overview of Critical Materials Innovation Hub
Tom Lograsso, Ames National Laboratory and Director, Critical Materials
 

METALLIC Capabilities by Supply Chain Segment

• Feedstock Beneficiation
  Scott Montross, National Energy Technology Laboratory
   
• Extractions and Separations
  Parans Paranthaman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
   
• Refinery
  Ryan Ott, Ames National Laboratory
   
• Alloy Development and Advanced Manufacturing (ADAM)
  Scott McCall, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   

Working With METALLIC

• Overview
  Tom Tarka, Senior Engineer, NETL and Director, METALLIC
   
• METALLIC Industry Partnership Program (MIPP)
  Christopher Saldaña, Deputy Assistant Secretary, DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
   
• Jeremy Mehta, Chief of Staff, DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation
   
• Workforce Development – the Laboratory to Industry for Future Talent (LIFT) Initiative
  Devinn Lambert, Senior Advisor, Advanced Mining and Mineral Production Technology Office, CMEI
   

METALLIC Capabilities – Enabling Activities

• Overview
  Birdie Carpenter, National Laboratory of the Rockies
   
• METALLIC Engineering & Systems Hub (MESH)
   

Adjacent and Emerging DOE Activities – Lightning Talks
Signature Projects

• Ga and GE Recovery from Waste
  John Simon, National Laboratory of the Rockies
   
• Strategic Alloys, Fixing a Broken Supply Chain
  Glenn Grant, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
   
• STREAM – Slurry Transformation into Resources for Energy and Advanced Materials
  Aaron Wilson, Idaho National Laboratory
   
• Mines to Magnets
  Scott McCall, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   
• ReCELL: Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) for Accelerating U.S. CMM Competitiveness
  Claus Daniel, Argonne National Laboratory
   
• CESMII: Strengthening the US’ Competitiveness Through Smart Manufacturing
  John Dyck, CESMII, the Smart Manufacturing Institute
   
• EMAPS: The Energy Materials and Processing at Scale (EMAPS) Facility at NLR Designed to Accelerate Scale-Up for Critical Minerals and Functional Materials
  Bill Tumas, National Laboratory of the Rockies
   

• Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Technical Breakout Sessions

• Feedstock Beneficiation
• Extractions and Separations
• Refinery
• Alloy Development and Advanced Manufacturing (ADAM)