Pax Silica Artificial Intelligence Assistance Project
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: June 30, 2026
Close date: August 20, 2026
Opportunity ID: 363022
Opportunity number: DFOP0019182
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Bureau of Oceans - Int. Environmental - Scientific
Agency code: DOS-OES
Award floor: $1,000,000
Award ceiling: $50,000,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
- Business and Commerce
Eligible Applicants
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:dos_oes
- category_of_funding_activity:business_and_commerce
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:for_profit_organizations_other_than_small_businesses
- funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
Leveraging foreign assistance from the Pax Fund, this NOFO launches the Pax Silica Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistance Project—a historic first-of-its-kind programmatic initiative to strengthen global AI supply chain security by creating a trusted supply chain credentialing and provenance platform to secure the AI supply chain in partner countries and economies. This NOFO seeks to fund the establishment of a Silicon Highway: a digital-physical corridor that accelerates logistics and compliance operations among partner countries with cryptographic cargo verification, AI-expedited risk assessment, and pre-approved expedited processing early in the supply chain. The Department maintains its rights of use to intangible property created under this project per 2 CFR 200.315.