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 337-360 of 1,185 grants
Future modular multifunctional land platforms and enabling technologies, including green technologies
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds qualification and certification work that matures modular armoured-vehicle technology, including greener variants, toward deployment.
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.
G-TEAD USARPAC ACE 27-01: Autonomous Sustainment powered by xTech
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays cash prizes for autonomous resupply tech demonstrated for the Army in the Pacific.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Backs quantum navigation systems for use where GPS signals are jammed or denied.
Grants on the Edge
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M faculty strengthening previously reviewed projects to improve future funder alignment.
Great-depth enabling technologies
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds early-stage research into technology for monitoring and defending underwater infrastructure at depths down to 6,000 metres.
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.
Humanitarian demining and unexploded ordnance risk education
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools and training curricula that make humanitarian demining safer and teach civilians how to avoid unexploded ordnance.
IARPA ARCADE
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States contractors building AI workflows for circuit design and technical document understanding.
IARPA COSMIC
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States investigators developing geospatial AI that blends remote sensing with public geolocation feeds.
iCreate Drone Challenge 2025
🇮🇳iCreate · India
Pays for India's fastest, strongest and most enduring drone prototypes with ₹2 crore.
iDEX DISC 12 (Re-Open) - IAF
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Funds Indian MSMEs, startups and individual innovators up to Rs 1.5 crore to solve an Indian Air Force helicopter landing-system challenge.
iDEX Open Challenge
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Pays Indian startups and MSMEs up to ₹1.5 crore to pitch defence and aerospace technology.
iDEX Prime Re Open
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Funds Indian MSMEs, startups and innovators up to Rs 10 crore to solve two Indian Air Force defence technology challenges under iDEX Prime.
IIA Track 37 — Horizon Europe Consortium Support
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports Israeli industrial companies joining Horizon Europe consortia by reimbursing proposal development and partner-search activity costs.
Improved cyber defence operations capabilities
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds distributed, partly automated cyber-defence tools that help EU militaries run and coordinate cyberspace operations.
Improved intelligence picture and enhanced action against organised crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds cross-border information-sharing and intelligence tools that help police forces detect and dismantle organised crime networks.
Improved preparedness for, response to and recovery from large-scale critical-infrastructure disruptions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds monitoring, risk-assessment and stress-testing tools that help critical-infrastructure operators withstand and recover from major disruptions.
Improving disaster risk management and governance for self-sufficient, sustainable operations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research on forecasting and adapting emergency systems for either climate/geohazard disasters or CBRN-E threats.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-registered companies delivering manufacturable, TRL 6-ready defence technology innovations scalable to operational use within twelve months.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports fast delivery of United Kingdom military-ready solutions through research partnerships focused on operational outcomes.
Innovative Manufacturing Adoption Fund Stage 1
🇦🇺NSW Government · Australia
Funds NSW manufacturers with $10,000 to $50,000 to investigate adopting advanced manufacturing technology through feasibility studies, pilot projects and technology assessments run by an external consultant.
Innovative space-based applications enhancing capabilities for a resilient Europe
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Funds EUR 1.5-1.8 million demonstration projects that turn Galileo and EGNOS satellite navigation into commercial tools for crisis and security practitioners.
Integrated Surveillance Mechanism: Regional Cable Hubs Pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one pilot project to test how private-sector data can feed Regional Cable Hubs that monitor threats to Europe's submarine cables.