The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) PV Manufacturing Research and Development Project is managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with support from Sandia National Laboratories. The Project team has worked for more than a decade in partnership with the U.S. PV industry to reduce manufacturing costs while significantly scaling up production capacity. Over this period, the PV Manufacturing R&D Project has issued several solicitations for partnerships that have resulted in more than 50 cost-shared R&D subcontracts addressing the cost and capacity goals of the Project.