North Atlantic Titanium Joins U.S. Defense Industrial Base Consortium to Bolster Critical Mineral Supply Chains

North Atlantic Titanium Corp. 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 company’s membership, announced July 6, 2026, allows it to participate in research, technical discussions, and collaborative projects aimed at strengthening North American industrial-base capabilities.

The DIBC operates through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) established by the U.S. Department of War’s Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution (WIRE) directorate. The OTA enables rapid research, access to commercial solutions for defense requirements, and innovations from industry, academia, and non-traditional contractors. According to Advanced Technology International (ATI), which manages the consortium, the DIBC aims to diversify and expand the defense industrial base and enable small and non-traditional businesses to work with government and access research and prototyping teaming opportunities.

“Joining the Defense Industrial Base Consortium reflects North Atlantic Titanium’s commitment to contributing to secure and resilient North American critical-mineral supply chains,” said Dwayne Yaretz, CEO and Director of North Atlantic Titanium. “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 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. It 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 to build a robust, resilient defense industrial base. Membership in the DIBC does not imply U.S. Government endorsement, project approval, funding, or the award of any contract or agreement.

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 the company’s website at www.natitanium.com.

The company will host a live investor webinar on Monday, July 6th at 4PM ET / 1PM PT. Registration is available at https://bit.ly/NATO-webinar. The event is hosted by Radius Research, giving individual investors access to in-depth CEO interviews with institutional-level discussion and Q&A.