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.
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Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports fast delivery of United Kingdom military-ready solutions through research partnerships focused on operational outcomes.
Map the Gap Phase 3
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom environmental monitoring innovation through gap mapping and advanced river and ecosystem projects.
Map the Gap Phase 3 — Riverine Relief
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams with aerial systems for terrain and river assessments that improve operational safety.
Measure Time between Signals with Extremely High Accuracy
🇬🇧NPNTO · United Kingdom
Funds UK proof-of-concept builds for picosecond-accurate time-interval measurement tech.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom medical teams developing point-of-care blood diagnostics for use in field operations.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics: Optimising Safety on Deployed Operations
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports innovative point-of-care blood testing devices for military medical operations in deployed settings.
Regulators' Pioneer Fund — Round 4
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom regulators with pilot innovation that improves service quality and public delivery.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Backs quantum navigation systems for use where GPS signals are jammed or denied.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Horizon Civil Security: Disaster-Risk Tech Uptake
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that help already-proven emergency and civil-protection technology reach first responders and public agencies across Europe.
Horizon Civil Security: Disruptive Tech Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €1.5M projects that take an early-stage security technology and prove it works with the practitioners and public authorities who'd use it.
Horizon Civil Security: Green Transition Risks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €4M project that studies the physical and cyber security risks green technology creates in cities, and how to manage them.
Horizon Civil Security: Policing Climate-Driven Crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M projects that build police technology and training to counter crime that climate change fuels, from environmental crime to carbon-market fraud.
Horizon Civil Security: Public Procurement of Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a cross-border consortium of public procurers and practitioners to jointly buy near-market civil security technology — not to build it.
Horizon Civil Security: Risk Awareness & Preparedness
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that build risk-communication tools and cross-government preparedness plans, from citizen outreach to emergency coordination systems.
Horizon Civil Security: Terrorism Prevention in Confined Spaces
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.8M projects that help police and communities catch radicalisation early and stop lone-actor attacks on schools and public buildings.
Horizon Climate Security: Crisis Scenario Planning
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools that help European civil protection authorities plan for and respond to climate-driven disasters like floods, wildfires and heat waves.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Multi-Hazard Resilience Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M projects that give infrastructure operators and first responders shared tools to spot risks and coordinate across borders during a crisis.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Stress-Test Tools
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.84M projects giving infrastructure operators and authorities better ways to simulate disruptions, spot weak points, and learn from real incidents.
Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.