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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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Industry Innovation Program
🇺🇸OCAST · United States
Funds Oklahoma-based private-sector companies conducting R&D in aerospace, defense, biotech, or energy with non-dilutive grants of $10,000 to $500,000.
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 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.
J2 ISP Autonomous Solutions Assessment Event
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports intelligence-led autonomous surveying capabilities that reduce deployed footprint for facilities.