Defense grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Defense grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for dual-use technology, defense research and security challenges from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Defense in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 1-24 of 271 grants
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative projects to address barriers to adopting quantum sensing and PNT.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
A university and a business share a graduate for a project neither could run alone.
Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity
🇬🇧AHRC · United Kingdom
Doctoral training in language-grounded research through HEI-led consortia.
DASA Open Call — Defence Rapid Impact (Phase 2)
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Helps research teams and institutions for DASA Defence Rapid Impact in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
DASA Open Call — Emerging Innovations (Phase 1)
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Offers research teams and institutions for DASA Emerging Innovations in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
Defence Innovation Fund
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom defence startups with rapid MoD contract opportunities in autonomy, robotics, and control systems.
Defence Innovation Loans/27 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Funds companies with strong defense applications through development loans and advisory support for advanced innovation.
Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR)
🇬🇧Plexal · United Kingdom
Offers Plexal led Laboratory for AI Security Research, linking organisations with universities and intelligence bodies to strengthen resilience.
DASA / UKDI Open Call for Innovation (paused
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports disruptive defence and security innovation through the UKDI route during transition toward renewed innovation operations.
Defence Innovation Loans
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Provides United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans financing for mature defence solutions needing capital before full commercialization.
Digital Twin Adoption Accelerator
🇬🇧Catapult Network · United Kingdom
Funds a UK technology SME and its industry partner adopting digital twin technology through an Innovate UK grant delivered by Digital Catapult.
Sovereign AI Strategic Assets Programme — Initial
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom sovereign AI growth by funding infrastructure and shared digital innovation assets.
Defence Innovation Loan/26 Cycle 5
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Offers United Kingdom defence innovation teams a government-backed low interest loan route through an official loan programme.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom biosecurity teams with innovation in sensing, diagnostics, and preventive systems.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-based organisations developing biosecurity innovations across biodetection, AI diagnostics, and non-pharmaceutical protective systems for national security.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom innovators building systems to detect and respond to biological risk faster.
DASA Themed Competition — Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Funds teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for DASA Themed Competition Biosecurity Frontiers in defense innovation, biotechnology, and synthetic biology.
DASA Themed Competition — Future-proofing Biosecurity: Microbial Forensic Capability
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Supports DASA Themed Competition Future proofing Biosecurity Microbial Forensic Capability for practical innovation and measurable results.
DASA Themed Competition — UK Defence Innovation: Conflict Wounds
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Funds biological models and portable first-aid treatments for battlefield casualty care innovation.
Defence Innovation Loans
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Invests through United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans in mature defence innovations to support late-stage commercialization.
Dual-use Aviation Systems and Autonomy
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK organisations up to £1.25 million to build aviation tech for both civil and military use.
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-registered companies delivering manufacturable, TRL 6-ready defence technology innovations scalable to operational use within twelve months.