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 1,181 grants
Aircraft propulsion and energy management systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds development of modular propulsion, power and thermal-management technology for next-generation fighter aircraft.
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
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
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.
BlindFlight Resilience Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.
BraveTech EU
🇪🇺AID · France
Supports defense technology initiatives that translate operational experience into practical European innovation projects.
BUILD (Boeing's University Innovation Leadership Development Program)
🇮🇳Boeing · India
Offers Indian students and entrepreneurs mentoring and a shot at a ₹10 lakh grant.
Call for R&DI Funding Proposals
🇮🇳TIHAN · India
Funds researchers and institutions up to ₹25 lakhs for autonomous-navigation R&D projects.
Canadian Safety and Security Program — Collaborative Projects
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Supports research teams and institutions for Canadian Safety and Security Collaborative Projects in defense innovation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.
Chiplet for Defence Application
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into a shared EU chiplet library that lets defence electronics mix and match chip building blocks instead of custom ASICs.
Citizen and regional/local authorities' engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, education and preparedness
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that raise citizens' disaster-risk awareness or build stronger links between researchers and local authorities on disaster preparedness.
Collaborative air combat
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds design and prototyping work on shared EU standards that let manned and unmanned combat aircraft operate together.