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.
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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.
J2 ISP Autonomous Solutions Assessment Event
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports intelligence-led autonomous surveying capabilities that reduce deployed footprint for facilities.
JATF Autonomous Warfare Proving Ground
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports autonomous system development at military test facilities with multidomain range and laboratory enhancements.
KMU-innovativ: Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SME-led consortia developing civil-security technology.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
A university and a business share a graduate for a project neither could run alone.
Land collaborative combat including air-land
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative combat technology that lets land forces share a tactical picture and coordinate engagement across coalitions.
Large Investment Loan with Capital Rebate — Round 4
🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia
Funds strategic research and innovation investments in Latvia with long-horizon financing and rebate support.
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.
Live, Virtual, Constructive training interoperability – Joint operations and service-specific solutions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into interoperable live, virtual and constructive training systems for joint EU multi-domain military exercises.
Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC)
🇺🇸AMC · United States
Funds one or more for-profit teams building a low-cost, battery-powered chip-scale atomic clock for the Army.
Map the Gap Phase 3
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom environmental monitoring innovation through gap mapping and advanced river and ecosystem projects.
Map the Gap Phase 3 — Riverine Relief
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams with aerial systems for terrain and river assessments that improve operational safety.
Measure Time between Signals with Extremely High Accuracy
🇬🇧NPNTO · United Kingdom
Funds UK proof-of-concept builds for picosecond-accurate time-interval measurement tech.
Michigan Space Innovation Hub RFP
🇺🇸MEDC · United States
Supports Michigan's space economy with a statewide hub linking defense, academic, and commercial innovation pathways.
Military multi-domain operations cloud services
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds development of federated cloud services that connect EU militaries' data and command systems across land, air, sea and space.
Missiles, ammunition and bombs
🇺🇦European Commission · European Union
Pays joint EU-Ukraine defence-industry consortiums up to €30 million per project to scale up production of missiles, ammunition and bombs for Ukraine.
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.
Modern information and forensic evidence analysis and frontline policing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools, forensic methods or training that modernise how police forces analyse evidence and work on the frontline.
Multi-Disciplinary design and Analysis Framework for Aerial Systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into a digital-twin simulation framework that speeds up design, certification and predictive maintenance of aerial systems.
Multiband 4D Radar
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds a demonstrator for a multiband 4D radar that tracks range, direction and speed together for naval and future ground/air defence.
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.
Multifunctional Information Distribution System
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into an EU-built tactical data-link terminal so European forces stop depending on non-EU MIDS/Link 16 suppliers.
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.
NASA SBIR Ignite Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and startups new to NASA in early-stage, high-risk technology development through awards of up to $150,000.