{ "project": { "id": "prj-us-5n-st-george-germanium-substrates", "name": "St. George space-qualified germanium substrate capacity expansion", "sponsorOrgIds": [ "org-5n-plus-semiconductors" ], "locations": [ { "countryCode": "US", "subnational": "Utah", "asStated": "St. George, Utah" } ], "stages": [ "refining", "component_manufacturing" ], "materialIds": [ "germanium" ], "materialAttribution": "tracked_only", "untrackedMaterialsAsStated": [], "evidence": [ { "sourceId": "src-dod-5n-germanium-2024", "supports": [ "name", "location", "stages", "materials" ], "evidence": "explicit", "locator": "Award and technical-effort paragraphs", "note": "DoD describes germanium-substrate manufacturing expansion plus sourcing, recovery and refining improvements at St. George." }, { "sourceId": "src-5n-germanium-2024", "supports": [ "sponsors", "location", "materials" ], "evidence": "explicit", "locator": "Opening and project-description paragraphs", "note": null }, { "sourceId": "src-5n-mda-q1-2024", "supports": [ "location", "materials", "sponsors" ], "evidence": "explicit", "locator": "Page 4, paragraph beginning 'Subsequent to quarter end, the Company also announced'", "note": "Recipient disclosure placing the supported production facility at St. George, Utah and describing its germanium substrates." }, { "sourceId": "src-usaspending-fa86502425501", "supports": [ "sponsors" ], "evidence": "explicit", "locator": "Award Summary: Recipient; Place of Performance", "note": "The recipient is 5N PLUS SEMICONDUCTORS LLC at a Saint George, Utah address. The place of performance reads multi-state, so the record alone does not place the project at the facility." } ], "notes": "The project spans upstream material preparation/refining and production of space-qualified germanium wafers/substrates; the award does not allocate money by stage." }, "governments": [ "us" ], "providerOrgIds": [ "org-us-dod" ], "layers": [ { "layer": "public_commitment", "rowIds": [ "fin-us-dod-5n-germanium-2024" ], "totals": { "currencies": [ { "currency": "USD", "countedIds": [ "fin-us-dod-5n-germanium-2024" ], "nestedIds": [], "status": "summed", "instruments": [ { "instrument": "grant", "countedIds": [ "fin-us-dod-5n-germanium-2024" ], "summed": true, "byQualifier": { "exact": "14400000" }, "binding": { "exact": "14400000" }, "notYetBinding": {}, "amountBasis": [ { "commitmentId": "fin-us-dod-5n-germanium-2024", "label": "Announced", "note": "Announced amount (DoD release, 16 April 2024). It is unreconciled with the $12,458,128 federal obligation reported in the federal award record and with the $2,505,981 non-federal funding reported there. No amount paid is recorded; some payment is reported in federal-reporting data only." } ] } ], "overlap": null } ], "unquantifiedIds": [], "endedIds": [], "statusNotStatedIds": [] } } ], "associatedRowIds": [], "designationIds": [], "latestImplementation": { "status": "announced", "date": "2024-04-16", "rowId": "fin-us-dod-5n-germanium-2024", "sourceId": "src-dod-5n-germanium-2024" }, "reviewedProjectMilestones": [], "reviewedMilestoneSources": [], "reviewedMilestoneEvidenceBasis": "human-reviewed original publisher claim; not independent on-site or financial verification", "sources": [ { "id": "src-dod-5n-germanium-2024", "title": "DOD Awards $14.4 Million to Sustain and Enhance the Space-Qualified Solar Cell Supply Chain", "publisher": "U.S. Department of Defense", "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3743467/dod-awards-144-million-to-sustain-and-enhance-the-space-qualified-solar-cell-su/", "language": "en", "datePublished": "2024-04-16", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-04", "sourceType": "official", "confidence": "primary", "notes": "Official DPA Investment award release for 5N+ Semiconductors. States the $14.4M award, St. George location, germanium-substrate scope, four-year technical effort, and national-security/supply-chain rationale." }, { "id": "src-5n-germanium-2024", "title": "5N+ Awarded US$14.4 Million by U.S. Department of Defense", "publisher": "5N Plus Inc.", "url": "https://www.5nplus.com/media/uploads/news/2024-04/b2024-04-18_dod_award_kYnCTid.pdf", "language": "en", "datePublished": "2024-04-18", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-04", "sourceType": "other", "confidence": "primary", "notes": "Company release confirming a US$14.4M DoD DPAI award, described as 'based on meeting certain conditions' over four years, for upgrading and increasing manufacturing capabilities at the St. George facility. It does not use the phrase 'pre-set milestones' (that wording is in 5N+'s Q1 and Q2 2024 MD&As) and does not mention sourcing, recovery or refining." }, { "id": "src-5n-mda-q1-2024", "title": "5N Plus Inc. Management's Discussion and Analysis, quarter ended March 31, 2024", "publisher": "5N Plus Inc.", "url": "https://www.5nplus.com/media/uploads/documents/b2024-05-06_mda_q1_2024.pdf", "language": "en", "datePublished": "2024-05-06", "dateAccessed": "2026-10-04", "sourceType": "other", "confidence": "primary", "notes": "Recipient securities disclosure. Page 4 describes a US$14.4M DoD grant 'subject to certain conditions and the achievement of pre-set milestones over a four-year term', supporting the St. George germanium-substrate production facility. It does not state a payment, receivable or execution date." }, { "id": "src-usaspending-fa86502425501", "title": "Award Summary: FA86502425501 (Cooperative Agreement), 5N PLUS SEMICONDUCTORS LLC", "publisher": "USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), reporting Department of Defense award data", "url": "https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_FA86502425501_097/", "language": "en", "datePublished": null, "dateAccessed": "2026-10-04", "sourceType": "dataset", "confidence": "primary", "notes": "Federal award record (read through the USAspending API, award, transactions and funding endpoints). Records DPA Title III cooperative agreement FA86502425501, awarded by the Department of the Air Force (AFRL) with Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense funding, to 5N PLUS SEMICONDUCTORS LLC (Saint George, Utah address), new award dated 2024-04-11, 'modification to definitize the agreement' PZ0001 dated 2025-05-20, later non-financial modifications through 2026-03-26. Reported federal obligation $12,458,128 plus non-federal funding $2,505,981; place of performance is shown as multi-state. The record's description matches DoD's April 2024 release title, and the recipient's earlier DPA Title III awards FA86501225503 (2012) and FA86502025525 (2020) are separate records. The award summary reports $0 account outlay, while the funding endpoint lists three gross-outlay lines defined as fiscal-year-beginning-to-period-end: $998,701.28 (FY2024 period 9, ending June 2024), $1,032,342.24 (FY2025 period 9, June 2025) and $399,308.73 (FY2026 period 6, March 2026), the last two paired with equal negative obligations. The summary's $0 reflects USAspending counting only each fiscal year's latest closed DoD submission (consistent with the behavior observed through the API and with the published code at commit 7c86854, which was not verified against the deployed implementation), not an absence of outlay lines. The lines are cumulative within a fiscal year and are not totalled; they are federal-reported account data with no payee or payment date and support a partially_disbursed entry on federal-reporting attribution only." } ] }