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 313-336 of 1,185 grants
Drone in a Box Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.
Drone-based affordable mass munitions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds affordable loitering munitions and small combat drones that can be mass-produced, with cascade funding for smaller tech companies.
Dual-use Aviation Systems and Autonomy
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK organisations up to £1.25 million to build aviation tech for both civil and military use.
Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.
ECDI - Dual-Use Drones Innovative Programme
🇪🇺ECDI · European Union
Pays manufacturing SMEs equity-free grants to advance a dual-use drone product by at least one technology readiness level.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EDF Research Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.
Energetic components
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays EU defence manufacturers to expand production capacity for propellants, explosives, warheads and other energetic munitions components.
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.
Enhanced pilot environment
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds next-generation combat cockpit technology, from wearable displays to AI-assisted decision support for pilots.
EPERVIER — Anti-Drone
🇫🇷AID · France
Supports development of portable anti-drone systems for critical security operations.
EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.
ESA VDES Arctic System Study
🇩🇰UFM · Denmark
Invests research teams and institutions for ESA VDES Arctic System Study in space technology and defense innovation.
EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.
EUDIS Cascade Funding — BATTLEVERSE Project
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds small businesses developing defense training and simulation technologies through small innovation grants.
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.
European Defence Fund — Work Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds collaborative defense research across aerospace, cyber, robotics, AI, and space.
European Defence Fund Cofinancing — #1
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Supports Lithuanian defence technology projects by covering national co-financing requirements for European Defence Fund initiatives.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.
FINEP Applied Research in Thematic Centers (Pesquisa Aplicada em Centros Temáticos)
🇧🇷FINEP · Brazil
Funds thematic applied-research centers in Brazil for infrastructure, climate, and health priorities.
For the Development of Innovative Products
🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia
Funds Latvian companies developing RIS3-priority products with loans paired with principal rebates.
Full-size demonstrators for next generation soldier systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds a full-size next-generation soldier system demonstrator, with built-in cascade funding for smaller companies to test their own tech within it.
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.