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 169-192 of 1,016 grants
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
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.
Navy Catapult Phase II.5
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports Naval-selected second-stage development for experienced small businesses with strong track records.
NM SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸NM TIO · United States
Funds New Mexico firms that partner with federal small business research achievements.
NM Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Matching Grant
🇺🇸NM EDD · United States
Funds New Mexico for-profit SBIR/STTR companies through state matching support.
One NC SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Funds North Carolina small businesses preparing and submitting Phase I SBIR or STTR proposals to federal agencies.
One NC SBIR/STTR Phase I Matching Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Funds North Carolina small businesses that have received a federal SBIR or STTR Phase I award with matching grants to bridge the gap to Phase II.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
PRODEX Space Instrumentation
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Supports Swiss research institutes through SERI and the Swiss Space Office to build scientific instruments for space missions.
Pymex — SME Foreign Trade Financing
🇲🇽Bancomext · Mexico
Funds Mexican foreign-trade-focused firms with concessional credit for working capital and project financing.
RAPID
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds dual use technology exploration for French small businesses and mid size firms in defense and advanced engineering.
Regional Innovation Fund
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Supports Virginia entrepreneur organisations strengthening startup ecosystems through ecosystem development grants.
RIIM Competition (RIIM Kompetisi)
🇮🇩BRIN · Indonesia
Funds competitive Indonesian research projects across frontier technology themes to strengthen real-world implementation.
Science & Innovation Missions (Misiones Ciencia e Innovación)
🇪🇸CDTI · Spain
Funds Spanish mission-oriented consortia across aerospace, energy, food, and health.
SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR Phase I
🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States
Funds early-stage United States space small businesses with feasibility contracts for new space technologies.
SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR Phase II
🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States
Supports United States space firms advancing proven prototypes into stronger development and demonstration milestones.
SpaceWERX STRATFI
🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States
Funds strategic growth support for United States space firms ready for major technical scale and deployment.
SpaceWERX TACFI
🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States
Funds tactical development support for United States space firms advancing commercialization after early proof.
SPRIND Equity Investments & Convertible Loans
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Invests in German deep-tech ventures through shared-equity support with private co-financing and downside risk share.
STEM Intern Partnership
🇺🇸OCAST · United States
Funds Oklahoma-based companies working on deep-tech projects to hire STEM student interns with non-dilutive grants of up to $30,000 per year.
STFC Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP)
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports invited large-scale United Kingdom particle, astronomy, and nuclear projects through STFC Projects Peer Review Panel, a route for complex funding.
Strategic Fund Job Growth Incentive
🇺🇸OEDIT · United States
Funds company relocation and expansion through Colorado hiring incentives to strengthen real-world implementation.
TechSource Proposal Assistance Funding
🇺🇸Colorado SBDC · United States
Funds Colorado tech firms with proposal development and commercialization assistance.
VVP Launch Grant — Cycle 6
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Funds early-stage Virginia startups through non-dilutive support before financing growth.
VVP Launch Note
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Offers Virginia startups a VVP Launch Note to convert into equity during later financing rounds.