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 265-288 of 1,185 grants
AEA Ignite — Next (seed)
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Supports Australian university researchers in early commercialisation by advancing proof-of-concept work toward market application.
AEA Ignite Round 3
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Provides research teams and institutions for AEA Ignite in artificial intelligence, agriculture innovation, and materials science.
AFWERX SpaceWERX STRATFI Space
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports Space Force technology graduates with matching investment for private sector scale-up.
AI Governance RFP
Coefficient · United States
Funds research and organizational support across technical governance, policy, and strategic analysis.
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.
Aircraft propulsion and energy management systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds development of modular propulsion, power and thermal-management technology for next-generation fighter aircraft.
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.
ASCA EDT Decision Advantage
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Funds Australian companies and universities developing AI and data-fusion technologies for Defence decision-making capability.
ASCA EDT Explore: Information Warfare and Quantum Technologies
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Funds Australian companies and universities conducting long-term R&D in information warfare countermeasures and quantum technologies for Defence.
ASCA EDT P2ISR — Persistent and Pervasive Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Funds Australian companies and universities developing sensing, edge processing, and ISR technologies for persistent Defence situational awareness.
ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.
Assignment to Help Cool Battlefield Radios
HMGCC · United Kingdom
Funds up to $65,000 for a 12-week project to stop battlefield radios overheating.
Assignment to Help Find Hidden Objects in Walls
HMGCC · United Kingdom
Funds up to $65,000 for a 12-week demonstrator that images hidden objects in walls.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
ASTRID
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
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.
Autonomous triage and evacuation
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into unmanned vehicles that can find, assess and evacuate wounded soldiers in mass-casualty and CBRN combat zones.
Better customs and supply chain security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools that help customs authorities detect illegal or dangerous goods moving through the EU's supply chains without slowing legitimate trade.
Bharat Startup Grand Challenge 2026 - Delhi
🇮🇳MASA Forum · India
Offers up to ₹5 lakh plus mentorship to Indian startups building indigenous defence tech.
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness RFP
Coefficient · United States
Funds interdisciplinary defense-health teams addressing engineered biological threats and resilience planning.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom innovators building systems to detect and respond to biological risk faster.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom biosecurity teams with innovation in sensing, diagnostics, and preventive systems.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-based organisations developing biosecurity innovations across biodetection, AI diagnostics, and non-pharmaceutical protective systems for national security.