Assistance program
Defense Production Act Title III (DPA Title III)
$2.3 Billion committed in FY2019–FY2026
- Agency
- Dept of the Air Force, Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants;Direct Loans
- CFDA number
- 12.777
- What it does
- To create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities essential for the national defense.
- Who benefits
- The Title III Office makes the determination for beneficiary eligibility based on the criticality of need and availability of funds.
- Who applies
- The Title III Office makes the determination of applicant eligibility and assistance types based on the criticality of the national defense need and availability of funds.
- Authorized by
- 50 U.S.C. App. section § 4501 et seq.
- Program site
- http://www.af.mil ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments