OtherOpenDepartment of Defense

Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC)

Per-recipient award not stated for consortia led by for-profit firms, for-profit firms, other legal entity, closing Not stated.

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Consortia led by for-profit firmsFor-profit firmsOther Legal EntityScience and Technology and other Research and Development

In one sentence

Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC) does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to consortia led by for-profit firms, for-profit firms, other legal entity.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
Not confirmed
No funding amounts stated in the available text.
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Not stated
Deadline type
unknown
Opens
May 6, 2020
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Consortia led by for-profit firms · For-profit firms · Other Legal Entity
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
Not stated

Source wording: “No funding amounts stated in the available text.”

Who can apply?

entity

Consortia led by for-profit firms, For-profit firms, Other Legal Entity

Source field: entity types
industry
use

Design, manufacture, and delivery of battery-powered atomic clock, Technology achieving chip-scale atomic clock performance with cost goal of less than $300 per unit in high volume

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Special notice seeks proposals from one or more for-profit firms in accordance with 32 CFR 37.210. A consortium led by a for-profit firm is encouraged.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Not statedunknown deadline

No deadline information provided in the available text.

What can the money be used for?

Design, manufacture, and delivery of battery-powered atomic clockTechnology achieving chip-scale atomic clock performance with cost goal of less than $300 per unit in high volume

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Not confirmed

Who has received this funding?

No award records yet

We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.

Common questions

Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.

Who is eligible to apply?
Consortia led by for-profit firms, For-profit firms, Other Legal Entity.
What can the funding be used for?
Design, manufacture, and delivery of battery-powered atomic clock, Technology achieving chip-scale atomic clock performance with cost goal of less than $300 per unit in high volume, as classified by the source.
Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-08-31
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-08-31

The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.