Program Manager: Dr. Leo Christodoulou
 The DARPA Initiative in Titanium Program, now in its second phase, seeks to develop and establish revolutionary industrial production and processing methodologies and capabilities for titanium metal and its alloys. The overall goals of this program are to (1) establish a U.S.-based, high-volume, low-cost, environmentally benign production capability enabling widespread use of titanium and its alloys; (2) develop and demonstrate unique, previously unattainable titanium alloys, microstructures, and properties that enable new high-performance applications; and (3) develop meltless consolidation techniques that will provide low-cost billet, rod, sheet, and plate products that match the properties of traditional wrought titanium mill product. Currently, efforts are aimed to produce high-quality titanium at target costs of less than $4 per pound. Scale-up of these methods is under way.
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