Hardware grants in the United States
Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups 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 Hardware in the United States come first.
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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.
TTO Office Wide (OW) BAA 2025
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds hardware and platform proposals across DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, covering four focus areas from rapid builds to disruptive concepts.
Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the ships, instruments and technical crews that make US ocean research possible — procurement, upgrades and annual operation.
National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2026/27
🇺🇸NOAA · United States
Funds designing and testing fishing gear that reduces bycatch and post-release deaths in US commercial and recreational fisheries.
BRAIN Initiative: Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording and Modulation Technologies in the Human CNS
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a novel recording or modulation technology for the human central nervous system from proof of concept up to readiness for first-in-human studies.
Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording/Modulation Technologies in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds preclinical testing for novel neural recording and modulation technologies before clinical transition.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research infrastructure between $4 million and $20 million — the gap between an instrument grant and a national facility.
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds computing that runs on wave dynamics rather than switches — exploratory grants, or four-year projects up to $2 million.
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds instrument development for ocean science — with a standing open door for unsolicited proposals that widen what the field can measure.
SEED Research Program
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds UW Madison spin-out research teams to advance commercialization through faculty-led projects.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds quantum technology testbeds that put real end-users inside the development cycle — $32 million, with industry partners welcome.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's largest computing awards — up to $15 million over seven years for a research agenda that looks a decade ahead.
Catalyze Product Definition Medical Device prototype design/testing and disease target identification and assay development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds building and testing an early medical-device prototype and its matching disease target or assay, for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
Catalyze: Product Definition Medical Device Prototype Optimization
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds refining a medical-device prototype's design, assays and research tools for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
Focused Technology Research and Development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a project that develops a biomedical research technology and only that — no biological question attached.
NIH Blueprint MedTech Translator
🇺🇸NINDS · United States
Funds translational neurotechnology device development through structured milestones and multi-year collaboration.
Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement
🇺🇸CDC · United States
Funds research and engineering work that cuts injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, from vessel design to severe-weather detection.
Rural Jump-Start Program
🇺🇸OEDIT · United States
Funds rural Colorado start-ups with matching grants and tax-related growth support.
AFRL/RD Tactical BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds directed energy development from early concept through advanced demonstration in defense applications.
DHS S&T LRBAA 24-01
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Runs research teams and institutions for DHS S&T LRBAA Submissions in cybersecurity, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
CHIPS R&D BAA — White Paper
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds microelectronics teams in the United States through CHIPS BAA with practical support for near market technology development.
Air Dominance BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Funds air dominance innovation in sensing, autonomy, and engagement systems for national security priorities.