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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NASA SBIR Phase I (BAA, Appendix A & B)
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds exploratory feasibility research for small businesses in aeronautics, space technology, and exploration development.
NASA STTR Phase I (BAA, Appendix B)
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds United States small-business and nonprofit research partnerships for early NASA-focused aerospace feasibility work.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
Naval hybrid propulsion and power systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds a prototype hybrid propulsion and DC power system that adapts commercial low-carbon marine tech for warships.
New abilities in over-the-horizon sensing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to develop long-range, over-the-horizon radar sensing technology as a lump-sum grant.
New turbofan engine
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to adapt existing civil turbofan research into a new engine for unmanned combat aircraft.
NIJ Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technology Implementation and Impact for Law Enforcement Purposes
🇺🇸NIJ · United States
Funds law-enforcement technology evaluations through NIJ research grants.
NIST PSCR CommanDING Tech Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds innovators and companies developing incident command dashboard technology for public safety through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
NIST PSCR First Responder UAS Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds teams and companies building unmanned aircraft system technology for first responders through NIST PSCR open innovation prize competitions.
NIST PSCR Tech to Protect Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds entrepreneurs, companies, and technologists building public safety communications technology through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
NM Science and Technology Business Startup Grant
🇺🇸NM EDD · United States
Funds New Mexico technology startups commercializing products in priority deep-tech sectors.
Non-thematic actions targeting disruptive technologies for defence
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays up to EUR 3 million per proposal for disruptive defence technology anywhere in the field, from TRL 4 upward.
Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays SMEs up to EUR 6 million each to develop innovative defence products, solutions or technologies of their own choosing.
Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs a lump-sum grant to develop any innovative defence product or technology of their own choosing, including civil tech adapted for defence.
Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs and research organisations a lump-sum grant to research any innovative defence technology of their own choosing.
Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays SMEs and research organisations up to EUR 5 million each for disruptive, TRL 4-plus defence research of their own choosing.
Non-thematic research actions targeting disruptive technologies for defence
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays for high-risk, high-reward research into any radically new defence technology that breaks with current approaches.
NRFC General Fund
🇦🇺NRFC · Australia
Funds Australian companies in seven priority sectors with debt, equity, and guarantee instruments.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
Oceans Stream
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers ocean-economy founders and researchers a nine-month, no-fee, no-equity mentorship program in Halifax where they meet mentors five times to set and hit growth objectives.
On-orbit operations and services
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds a dual-use demonstrator for satellites that can inspect, repair, maintain or deorbit other military satellites in space.
Open topic on efficient border surveillance and maritime security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to three border-security and maritime-surveillance projects worth EUR 3.3 million each, built with Border or Coast Guard partners.
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.
OSD ManTech / MII Project Calls
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports advanced manufacturing research and innovation through Manufacturing Innovation Institute calls.