Defense grants
Explore grants for defense and dual-use technology companies. This directory includes funding for defense research, autonomous systems, sensing, secure communications and resilience technology, from defense ministries, innovation units and multinational security programs, with the eligibility rules each funder sets out.
Showing 1-24 of 1,181 grants
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
Research for Civil Security — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German projects in cyber and defense technologies that strengthen civil security applications.
Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative projects to address barriers to adopting quantum sensing and PNT.
RFCS Steel Big Tickets Under the Steel and Metals Action Plan — Dual-Use
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds large 'Big Ticket' steel research and innovation projects with civil-and-defence dual-use relevance under the EU's steel and metals action plan.
ONR TRAPS SPA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports development of shipboard power architectures that actively manage transient demand using controls, conversion, and storage.
SBO Security and Defence
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Ammunition Waste Collection and Disposal Unmanned Platform
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a single contractor to build a semi-autonomous robotic platform that finds and disposes of leftover ammunition on former military training grounds and battlefields.
Autonomous and automatic air-to-air refuelling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to develop sensor and control technology that lets tanker and receiver aircraft refuel each other automatically.
CBRN decontamination systems and technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds contractors to build portable nanosorbent devices that decontaminate large military equipment after CBRN exposure.
DARPA DSO Disruptioneering
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports rapid United States exploratory defense research through fast-distributed projects and compact delivery agreements.
Development and validation of models predicting flow-related underwater noise
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to build better models of flow-generated underwater noise to improve sonar placement on naval platforms.
Enhanced cognitive EW system with intelligent RESM CESM signal analysis
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to build an AI-driven electronic-warfare system that can detect and respond to threats faster than a human operator.
Enhanced medium-size semi-autonomous surface vessels
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to design and prototype a fast, semi-autonomous coastal-defence surface vessel.
Future main battle tank platform systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to design and test next-generation main battle tank technology to replace Europe's ageing fleets.
Future multirole light aircraft
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to research a low-cost, single-engine light aircraft for close air support and counter-drone roles.
High-end endo-atmospheric interception
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one defence consortium EUR 100 million to mature interceptor technology against hypersonic and ballistic missile threats, up to Technology Readiness Level 6.
Integration of Galileo PRS receivers on weapon systems and NAVWAR operational centres in military C2
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build Galileo PRS receivers and navigation-warfare software for military platforms and command centres.
Layered critical seabed infrastructure protection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 15 million per proposal to build a layered system of unmanned assets and sensors that protects undersea infrastructure.
Modelling & simulation supported AI framework for military decision-making and training
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 8 million per proposal to build an AI framework for military simulation, war-gaming and decision-making training.
Multidomain sensors demonstrator and test
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build a radar demonstrator that tracks hypersonic threats and anti-drone targets using AI-assisted signal processing.
Multiple rocket launcher
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to develop new multiple rocket launcher systems with longer range and better precision for European land forces.