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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PEO SOFSA Mobile Hydrogen Production and Storage — Assessment Event
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports mobile hydrogen energy solutions for special operations logistics across land, sea, and air environments.
Pionniers de l'Intelligence Artificielle — relève juin
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds high-potential artificial intelligence research with transformative impact in industry, health, ecology, and security.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the winning military-health start-up pitching at The MedTech Conference.
PitchMI
🇺🇸MSURF · United States
Awards Michigan startups $250,000 per track winner, plus $1 million at the championship.
Prevention, detection and deterrence of crime and terrorism through societal understanding
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the social and cultural drivers of crime or radicalisation, paired with awareness campaigns and policy input.
Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays one team to build and run the shared testing environment that evaluates rival human-AI dialogue systems for defence use.
Privacy-preserving human-AI dialogue systems – Participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds teams that build a defence-ready human-AI dialogue system and enter it into a shared, independently judged evaluation challenge.
Proposal Planning Grants
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Supports Texas A&M interdisciplinary teams developing large-scale proposals for external sponsors.
Propulsion system for next generation rotorcrafts
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds early design work on a new high-power European turboshaft engine for the next generation of military rotorcraft.
Quantum secured tactical networks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build quantum-secured software-defined tactical network technology for EU armed forces.
R&D Projects
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies doing industrial research, experimental development, or process innovation through grants covering 15 to 70 percent of project costs.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom medical teams developing point-of-care blood diagnostics for use in field operations.
Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics: Optimising Safety on Deployed Operations
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports innovative point-of-care blood testing devices for military medical operations in deployed settings.
Regulators' Pioneer Fund — Round 4
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom regulators with pilot innovation that improves service quality and public delivery.
RF Architectures Applying Photonic Timing and Routing (RAAPTR)
DARPA · United States
Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.
RFCS Steel Big Tickets Under the Steel and Metals Action Plan — Dual-Use
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds large 'Big Ticket' steel research and innovation projects with civil-and-defence dual-use relevance under the EU's steel and metals action plan.
Risk, robustness and resilience for autonomous vehicles in military operations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into automated cyber-defence for military drones and autonomous vehicles that can detect, react to and recover from attacks.
ROADS Prize Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Connects teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for ROADS Prize Challenge in robotics, defense innovation, and transport and mobility.
Secure digital military mobility system
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build an encrypted mobile system that speeds up military mobility permits and clearances across EU borders.
Secured and facilitated crossing of external borders
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into technology and practices that make legal border crossings faster while still catching unauthorised crossings and threats.
Security & Resiliency Traction Program
MassChallenge · United States
Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.
Self-protection systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a EUR 24 million share of this year's Defence Fund call to develop next-generation self-protection systems for combat and non-combat aircraft.
Services Enabled by High Altitude Pseudo Satellites Complemented by Satellites
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Fully funds feasibility studies combining high-altitude platforms with satellite services.
Smart and multifunctional textiles
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays a contractor to build smart camouflage textiles that hide soldiers from drone surveillance.