Defense grants in the United States
Explore Defense grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for dual-use technology, defense research and security challenges 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 Defense in the United States come first.
Showing 1-24 of 405 grants
AFRL/RX Functional Materials Open BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports advanced functional materials research in the United States through Air Force opportunities.
ONR FY27 NOFO for Young Investigator Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds early-career university faculty doing naval-relevant science, engineering or mathematics research.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
ARO DURIP (Annual Cycle)
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring research equipment for defense-relevant scientific research.
DURIP (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring major research equipment for defense-relevant research capabilities.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds research equipment and instrumentation for university labs working on Navy and defense-relevant science.
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds research equipment and instrumentation for U.S. universities doing science important to national defense.
DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States quantum technology research aiming for scalable, error-corrected computing breakthroughs.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds research capacity at HBCUs and minority institutions doing naval-relevant science and engineering.
AFRL/RD HPEM Modeling and Effects BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds high-power electromagnetics modeling and effects research to strengthen defense science over time.
ONR Long Range BAA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports Navy and Marine science teams through ONR Long Range access to opportunities across science and technology domains.
ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Funds civil, structural, materials and environmental research across the Army's engineering labs, continuously open with no real dollar ceiling on record.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) - RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds a first-time faculty investigator paired with an experienced DoD-funded mentor on defense-relevant research.
FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) CAPACITY BUILDING (CB)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds multi-year defense-relevant research at universities in states that get little competitive DoD research funding.
ARO MURI
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university teams pursuing long-range defense research collaborations and shared outcomes.
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)
🇺🇸AMC · United States
Invests research teams and institutions for LPS Qubit Collaboratory BAA in quantum systems, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds white papers under a standard Broad Agency Announcement inside the Air Force's CHEERS human-performance research strategy.
Chemical Countermeasures Research Program (CCRP) Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic (UPS) Opioids
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research on the harm caused by a single exposure to ultra-potent synthetic opioids, including the effects that appear later.
ARL BAA
🇺🇸ARL · United States
Supports continuous Army science research for universities, companies, and nonprofits across broad disciplines.