North Atlantic Titanium Corp. (CSE: NATO) (OTCQB: NATQ.F) (FSE: Y33) announced it has joined the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC), a collaborative initiative focused on advancing secure, innovative, and resilient solutions for the defense industrial base. The DIBC, established by the U.S. Department of War’s Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution (WIRE) directorate, operates through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) designed to enable rapid research, access to commercial solutions, and prototyping opportunities.
Membership in the DIBC allows North Atlantic Titanium to participate in research, technical discussions, and collaborative projects aimed at strengthening North American industrial-base capabilities. The company’s CEO and Director, Dwayne Yaretz, stated, “Joining the Defense Industrial Base Consortium reflects North Atlantic Titanium’s commitment to contributing to secure and resilient North American critical-mineral supply chains. Titanium, vanadium, and phosphate each have important industrial and strategic applications, and the Company looks forward to participating in technical collaboration, supply-chain discussions, and potential future critical-mineral opportunities.”
The DIBC is managed by Advanced Technology International (ATI), which aims to diversify and expand the defense industrial base, enabling small and non-traditional businesses to work with government and access research and prototyping teaming opportunities. According to ATI, the DIBC OTA has a 10-year period of performance with no funding ceiling and is overseen by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy’s WIRE directorate. The consortium enhances WIRE’s mission of addressing defense supply chain issues, developing the industrial workforce, sustaining critical production, commercializing Research and Development (R&D) efforts, and rapidly scaling emerging technologies.
North Atlantic Titanium is focused on developing the Everett titanium-vanadium project in Québec, targeting the production of high-quality titanium feedstocks with potential value-added vanadium and phosphate coproducts. The company also holds a 100-per-cent interest in the Sleeping Giant South gold project in the Abitibi greenstone belt. For more information, visit www.natitanium.com.
The company will host a live investor webinar on Monday, July 6th at 4 PM ET / 1 PM PT, where attendees can ask questions in real time. Registration is available at https://bit.ly/NATO-webinar. The webinar is hosted by Radius Research, part of Market Radius Capital, Inc., and led by former top-ranked sell-side analyst Martin Gagel.
Membership in the DIBC does not imply U.S. Government endorsement, project approval, funding, or the award of any contract or agreement. This announcement underscores the growing importance of securing domestic critical mineral supplies for defense and industrial applications.
