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Consortium officials say the total value of the solicitations likely exceeds $100 million, with more rounds planned every four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Energetics is a broad category of materials found in rocket and missile motors, ammunition, warheads and fuzing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re looking all the components, the pieces like fuzing, the warhead, all the parts that go into the systems of systems \u2015 and that\u2019s where the groundbreaking technology comes in,\u201d said Charlie Zisette, the consortium\u2019s executive director. \u201cA lot of these [projects] are really focusing on performance requirements to give me more range, to give me more lethal effects, or to try and make [a missile or rocket] lighter or more durable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEST, which has a six-year mandate, launched in March amid fears about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/05\/22\/the-us-is-running-out-of-bombs-and-it-may-soon-struggle-to-make-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">strained industrial base<\/a> for energetics, a key part of munitions and other conventional weapons. It uses the flexible, nontraditional \u201cother transaction authority\u201d to task the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2020\/08\/27\/armaments-consortium-launches-new-path-to-field-high-tech-prototypes\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Armaments Consortium<\/a>\u2019s more than 900 members in industry and academia with solving its toughest challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, one research topic pertains to propellants that contain CL-20, a 20-year-old chemical valued because the smoke it produces in rockets is hard to see. 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