I posted on this back in April 22 when Vince made reference to...

I posted on this back in April 22 when Vince made reference to how they secured the grant. His explanation was underwhelming.

Seems that his tax advisors (R&D) brought the idea to him, which was executed for c.100-200k in professional fees. It doesn't sound like the feds waded through information on the best Vanadium projects and landed on AVL. Nor does it feel like AVL are lobbying hard (rather it was a clever opportunity brought to their attention by an advisor).

This is a good win for AVL, and might help to defer a cap raise, but I don't see this as a gamechanger.