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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SOCOM SBIR Release 1
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.
SOCOM SBIR Release 2
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.
Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI): Space Cyber-Cognitive Overmatch (SCCO)
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Backs a university-led consortium with up to $25 million to build transformative cyber, AI and quantum technologies that protect and strengthen U.S. military space systems.
Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) User Studies: Satellite Applications for Public Safety
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds up to €250K, 100% covered, for satellite public-safety user studies.
Space-based ISR constellation
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds design of an affordable small-satellite constellation that gives more EU states their own space-based surveillance and reconnaissance.
SPIN: Rise
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.
Stand-off anti-submarine warfare engagement
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into stand-off weapons and sensors that let EU navies engage submarines from beyond torpedo range.
Startup India Seed Fund Scheme
🇮🇳GoI · India
Funds DPIIT-recognized Indian startups developing technology products through incubator-disbursed seed support.
STEP Defense & Security Tech — Call 02-130-K
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Funds defense and security technology development in Lithuania through large-scale innovation grants for production-oriented projects.
Support to the EDF National Focal Points (NFP) network
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds a coordination project that helps national EDF advisors across the EU train, share know-how and run matchmaking for defence consortia.
TattvaX Cohort 2
🇮🇳i-Hub & SanchiConnect · India
Backs Indian deeptech startups in space, defence and drones with mentorship and pilots.
Tech Hubs Implementation Grants
🇺🇸EDA · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for Tech Hubs Implementation Grants in artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and semiconductors.
Technologies for counter-battery capabilities
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into detecting and neutralising enemy artillery fast enough to catch mobile 'shoot-and-scoot' batteries.
Technologies for optronic detectors
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds EU development of the next generation of infrared-detector readout chips so Europe isn't dependent on non-EU sensor supply chains.
Technology Challenges and Opportunities to Special Operation Forces in 2027
SOCOM · United States
Paid individual authors up to $2,500 for essays forecasting technology's impact on Special Operations Forces.
Testing and validating tools for cross-border disaster prevention, preparedness and response
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds real-world testing of AI tools, sensors or communication systems that help first responders handle cross-border disasters and CBRN threats.
The human factor in critical-infrastructure resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the human side of infrastructure resilience, from insider-threat detection to training for operators and first responders.
US Navy Challenge: Autonomous Detection of Marine Mammals
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Pays teams up to $75,500 to build sensor systems that detect whales near naval and commercial vessels.
xTech | Kinetic Reach
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1.5 million across a field of cash prizes, including up to $150,000 each to five final winners, to small and large businesses that pitch agile military-sustainment technology to the U.S. Army.
xTech|Apex Intercept
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $8 million in cash prizes for low-cost missile interceptor technology.
xTech|Inversion
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1,000,000 in cash prizes to small businesses commercializing curated Army IP.
xTech|Live at eMerge Americas 2026
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $600,000 in cash prizes to teams pitching live at eMerge Americas 2026.
xTech|Phantum
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $200,000 in cash prizes to U.S. small businesses developing quantum sensor and photonics technology.
xTechScalable AI 2
🇺🇸Army · United States
Offers up to $603,000 in cash prizes and SBIR contracts for scalable military AI solutions.