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 169-192 of 405 grants
OSD ManTech / MII Project Calls
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports advanced manufacturing research and innovation through Manufacturing Innovation Institute calls.
PEO SOFSA Mobile Hydrogen Production and Storage — Assessment Event
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports mobile hydrogen energy solutions for special operations logistics across land, sea, and air environments.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the top military-health start-up pitching at The MedTech Conference.
PitchMI
🇺🇸MSURF · United States
Awards Michigan startups $250,000 per track winner, plus $1 million at the championship.
ROADS Prize Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Connects teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for ROADS Prize Challenge in robotics, defense innovation, and transport and mobility.
SOCOM SBIR Release 1
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.
SOCOM SBIR Release 2
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.
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.
Tech Hubs Implementation Grants
🇺🇸EDA · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for Tech Hubs Implementation Grants in artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and semiconductors.
US Navy Challenge: Autonomous Detection of Marine Mammals
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Pays teams up to $75,500 to build sensor systems that detect whales near naval and commercial vessels.
xTech | Kinetic Reach
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1.5 million across a field of cash prizes, including up to $150,000 each to five final winners, to small and large businesses that pitch agile military-sustainment technology to the U.S. Army.
xTech|Apex Intercept
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $8 million in cash prizes for low-cost missile interceptor technology.
xTech|Inversion
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1,000,000 in cash prizes to small businesses commercializing curated Army IP.
xTech|Live at eMerge Americas 2026
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $600,000 in cash prizes to teams pitching live at eMerge Americas 2026.
xTech|Phantum
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $200,000 in cash prizes to U.S. small businesses developing quantum sensor and photonics technology.
xTechScalable AI 2
🇺🇸Army · United States
Offers up to $603,000 in cash prizes and SBIR contracts for scalable military AI solutions.
xTechSoldier Fire Control
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $300,000 in cash prizes for a next-generation squad-weapon fire control module.
Frontiers in Research Summits
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M faculty summits that connect researchers and trigger new collaborative science initiatives.
IARPA DECIPHER
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States teams building multilingual language tools for difficult intelligence vocabulary and specialised terminology.
IARPA LocUS — ETA OTA
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States researchers mapping video origin from combined visual and audio clues when metadata is absent.
IARPA MOVES
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States researchers using movement from video to support neurological assessment in intelligence profiles.
International Landing Zone RFP
🇺🇸MEDC · United States
Supports international aerospace and defense firms in Michigan through local office and market-entry backing.
NSIN Propel
🇺🇸NSIN · United States
Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.
NSIN Vector Cohort
🇺🇸NSIN · United States
Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.