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Government agencies and national laboratories

Give federal program officers and national lab scientists a governed materials intelligence platform for critical mineral strategy and open-access research synthesis.

Best-fit teams

DoE, DoD, NIST program officers, national laboratory principal investigators, strategic reserve planning teams, inter-agency critical mineral task forces

Typical questions
Which critical minerals in the US supply chain face dangerous single-jurisdiction exposure?
Which emerging material technologies represent investment priorities for DOE or DARPA funding?
How do we compare novel material discoveries across national lab databases with consistent evidence standards?
Where teams get stuck

The decision gap this page is built for

Government programs and national labs manage fragmented materials data across dozens of public databases, making cross-agency synthesis, supply chain intelligence, and rapid technology assessment extremely labor-intensive.

How Lattice Graph helps

Capabilities aligned to this workflow

Consolidate public database intelligence (Materials Project, AFLOW, JARVIS, OQMD, USGS MRDS) into a single governed query surface
Generate critical mineral supply analysis with HHI scoring and deposit-level geopolitical risk assessment
Produce evidence-backed materials technology assessment reports
Decision flow

A typical way teams use the platform here.

01

Aggregate public database intelligence

Lattice Graph normalizes data from Materials Project, AFLOW, JARVIS, OQMD, COD, USGS MRDS, and 15+ other sources into a single governed query surface.

02

Conduct critical mineral assessments

HHI supply concentration scoring and deposit intelligence generate agency-ready reports on strategic mineral vulnerabilities and domestic reserve potential.

03

Support technology transition decisions

Composition intelligence reports with full evidence provenance and patent landscape support SBIR/STTR commercialization reviews and technology transfer decisions.

Signals in scope

What teams usually need in one screen.

Cross-database evidence corroboration and confidence scoring
Critical mineral supply concentration and geopolitical risk
Technology readiness level indicators from synthesis evidence
Patent landscape and commercialization pathway assessment
Expected outcome

Accelerate technology assessment, critical mineral strategy, and materials procurement decisions by replacing manual multi-database synthesis with governed, queryable intelligence.

Related markets

Adjacent segments with similar fit.

Department of Energy critical materials programs
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) materials programs
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) materials reference programs
Strategic national stockpile and critical mineral reserve planning
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