Hardware grants in the United States

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Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.

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Funds U.S. small businesses testing the feasibility of transportation R&D innovations for DOT mission needs.

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Funds prior DOT Phase I awardees to continue transportation R&D and commercialization work through Phase II.

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Supports teams solving disaster resilience with advances in analytics, communications, autonomy, power, sensing, and prediction technologies.

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Offers New Jersey hardware innovators co-investment support, technical mentorship, and market access through public program pilots.

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Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.

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Invests students and early career scholars with mentoring support for LEEP Fellowship in energy systems, manufacturing, and materials science.

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Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.

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Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.

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Funds Texas A&M strategic equipment and infrastructure investments that strengthen core research capabilities.

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Funds U.S. small businesses developing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technologies through SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR contracts.

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Connects startups, universities, and innovators to national security talent and problem-solving networks.

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Invests minority equity in Stanford-affiliated startup follow-on rounds alongside independent professional investors.

Between cycles

Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.

Between cycles

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.

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Funds a complete tunable 6G radio front-end module for 7–15 GHz, combining European microelectronics with low-energy operation.

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Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.

Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.

Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.

Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.

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Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.

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Supports young Pennsylvania technology firms in Keystone Innovation Zones through targeted tax incentives.

Supports Pennsylvania firms through tax credits for qualifying innovation expenses, lowering effective innovation costs.

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Funds high-growth early-stage North Dakota startups by matching angel investments one-to-one through a state co-investment model.