Cybersecurity grants in the United States
Explore Cybersecurity grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for security research, secure hardware, cryptography, threat detection and resilience from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Cybersecurity in the United States come first.
Showing 121-144 of 343 grants
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.
IGEM HERC Track
🇺🇸Idaho Commerce · United States
Supports deep-tech commercialization for university-linked companies in Idaho through state reimbursable grants and early-stage commercialization pathways.
Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program
🇺🇸Innovate Alabama · United States
Funds Alabama small businesses with active federal SBIR or STTR awards.
Innovation Investment Tax Credit (IITC)
🇺🇸MD Commerce · United States
Offers Maryland technology investment tax credits to investors in certified technology companies, with investment-focused participation.
J2 ISP Autonomous Solutions Assessment Event
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports intelligence-led autonomous surveying capabilities that reduce deployed footprint for facilities.
MassChallenge FinTech Challenge Program
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports fintech startups with proven products through MassChallenge's program for modern financial services, payments, and regtech pilots.
NIST PSCR CommanDING Tech Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds innovators and companies developing incident command dashboard technology for public safety through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
NIST PSCR First Responder UAS Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds teams and companies building unmanned aircraft system technology for first responders through NIST PSCR open innovation prize competitions.
NIST PSCR Tech to Protect Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds entrepreneurs, companies, and technologists building public safety communications technology through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
NZ — US Global Centers for Proposals
🇳🇿MBIE · New Zealand
Funds New Zealand and United States collaborations improving critical infrastructure resilience for climate, energy, and cyber systems.
SCALE Capital: Massachusetts Lab-to-Fab Grant Program
🇺🇸NEMC · United States
Funds Massachusetts microelectronics teams moving lab-to-fab projects through SCALE Capital grants.
SLTT SOC / ISAC Program
🇺🇸CISA · United States
Funds for-profit and nonprofit organisations operating shared cyber operations and threat-information services through a CISA agreement.
Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI): Space Cyber-Cognitive Overmatch (SCCO)
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Backs a university-led consortium with up to $25 million to build transformative cyber, AI and quantum technologies that protect and strengthen U.S. military space systems.
Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program
🇺🇸CISA · United States
Funds eligible Tribal governments implementing cyber planning, assessment, protection and workforce projects through DHS grants.
U.S. DOT SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸US DOT · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses testing the feasibility of transportation R&D innovations for DOT mission needs.
U.S. DOT SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸US DOT · United States
Funds prior DOT Phase I awardees to continue transportation R&D and commercialization work through Phase II.
Verizon Community Disaster Resilience Innovation Accelerator
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports teams solving disaster resilience with advances in analytics, communications, autonomy, power, sensing, and prediction technologies.
Vitality Fund
🇺🇸DMPED · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for Vitality Fund in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and built environment.
IARPA DECIPHER
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States teams building multilingual language tools for difficult intelligence vocabulary and specialised terminology.
NSIN Vector Cohort
🇺🇸NSIN · United States
Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.
HMGCC Accelerate
Plexal · United Kingdom
Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.
Microsoft Research Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Offers early-career faculty in the Americas recurring support through computing fellowships in applied research.