http://www.amyris.com Amyris is a renewable products company providing sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. Amyris applies its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant sugars into a variety of molecules -- flexible building blocks that can be used in a wide range of products. In other words, they have made yeast produce diesel instead of alcohol. In Washington, the DoD will award three contracts totaling $16 million for drop-in military bio-fuels. The overall Defense Production Act Title II program is divided into two phases: this phase, for plan development. A second phase, which would be funded out of FY 2013 and later year funds, would award up to $180 million in additional contracts to accelerate the construction of at least one bio-refinery capable of providing the US military with renewable fuels to meet its Great Green Fleet plans. http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2013/05/27/the-battle-of-the-beltway-dod-awards-16m-towards-parity-cost-drop-in-non-food-biofuels