On Oct. 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense announced an $87 million, seven-year award to the BioIndustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE), a nonprofit created by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

BioMADE, headquartered at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, planned to collaborate with public and private entities to advance sustainable and reliable bioindustrial manufacturing technologies.