Aerospace grants
Explore grants for aerospace companies. This directory brings together funding for new aircraft, propulsion systems, avionics, uncrewed systems and advanced air mobility, from national aviation and defense agencies, research councils and industry programs, alongside grants open to companies in any sector.
Showing 1-24 of 1,018 grants
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Exports
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Supports Australian defence small businesses in strengthening commercial positioning for exports through capability building and market readiness assistance.
DURIP (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring major research equipment for defense-relevant research capabilities.
NASA ROSES — Science Mission Directorate Omnibus
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds a broad United States NASA Science Mission Directorate package across multiple science and mission areas.
TTP (TTP-T / TTP-P)
🇺🇸NSF TIP · United States
Funds NSF-funded research teams translating discoveries toward field use through industry-aligned pathways and partnerships.
Aid for Collaborating Entities (Ayudas a Entidades Colaboradoras)
🇪🇸ICEX · Spain
Offers ICEX-backed trade-promotion support through sector associations for Spanish companies presenting at international fairs.
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.
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.
Platforms and end-products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European defence-industry consortiums to expand EU production capacity for platforms and end-products such as armoured vehicles, aircraft, radars, naval systems and satellite payloads.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
Flexible Skills Programme — FY2026/27
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Funds Welsh employers to build workforce capability, including specialist training in artificial intelligence tools.
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
FAA Aviation Research Grants Program
🇺🇸FAA · United States
Funds aviation research grants and cooperative agreements across seven named technical areas, for colleges, universities and nonprofit research institutions.
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.
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.
Air Dominance BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Funds air dominance innovation in sensing, autonomy, and engagement systems for national security priorities.
Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER)
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds aerospace capabilities, engineering and research through a Broad-Agency-style vehicle the Air Force keeps open for two decades at a time.
Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and Sustaining
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds Air Force human-performance research, but only through the two grant-eligible solicitations sitting beneath this umbrella notice.
ENEA Proof of Concept Program
ENEA · Italy
Funds companies moving ENEA laboratory technologies toward industrial use through co-funded proof-of-concept projects.
A+ Enterprise Innovation R&D Refinement Program
🇹🇼MOEA · Taiwan
Supports Taiwan enterprises through the A Plus Refinement Program with technical guidance for high-potential industrial innovation.
Advantage Maryland (MEDAAF)
🇺🇸MD Commerce · United States
Invests Maryland firms in targeted economic development finance in Maryland through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
AFOSR BAA — Basic Research
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds basic research at United States universities across defense science, materials, aerospace, and quantum topics.