Flagship program

FORGE

Formation, Optimization, and Real-time Growth Engine. An autonomous materials-synthesis platform built to discover how strategic materials form, stabilize difficult states, and convert learning into reproducible process knowledge.

Architecture ↓Bring us a materials problem

Prediction is not capability.A material predicted by AI or computation has no mission value until it can be synthesized, validated, reproduced, and transitioned.

01 · Mission Need

The realization bottleneck

Strategic materials are often hardest exactly where performance matters most.

Metastable phases, interfaces, narrow process windows, and non-equilibrium pathways can make the best predicted material difficult or impossible to reach by conventional trial-and-error synthesis.

Sense

Capture the evolving growth environment and material state in real time.

Learn

Build causal process knowledge instead of merely searching a parameter space.

Transfer

Convert successful growth into repeatable recipes, process IP, and transition packages.

02 · Architecture

Closed-loop materials realization

Observe. Understand. Act. Validate. Transfer.

Observe formation

Synchronized in-situ sensing tracks process conditions and the evolving material state during synthesis.

Understand causality

Physics-informed AI links process history to structure, phase evolution, interfaces, and functional response.

Act in real time

Autonomous planning selects and executes improved synthesis pathways based on what the material is actually doing.

Validate mission-relevant performance

End-state characterization verifies that structural improvement translates into the property or function that matters.

Transfer the process

Validated recipes and causal knowledge become reproducible manufacturing approaches, partner-specific transition packages, or proprietary process IP.

03 · Strategic Domains

Platform mission

Make the materials American systems need next.

FORGE is designed as a platform across material classes rather than a single-material automation project.

Magnetic / Transductive

Rare-earth-reduced performance

Magnets, magnetostrictive materials, and transductive systems that reduce supply-chain vulnerability while preserving function.

Quantum / Electronic

Interface-driven materials

Topological, superconducting, semiconductor, and heterostructure materials for advanced sensing, information, and electronic systems.

Extreme Environments

Materials that endure

Coatings and functional structures engineered for thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, radiation, and mission-specific extremes.