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.
Showing 25-48 of 1,185 grants
Horizon Security: Missing Persons Prevention & Investigation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €5M project building forensic, training and privacy-safe data-sharing tools so European police and NGOs can find missing people and crack cold cases.
Horizon Security: Pre-Commercial Procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €5.83M project where public security procurers and practitioners jointly commission and test rival prototypes through a procurement tender.
ARO DURIP (Annual Cycle)
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring research equipment for defense-relevant scientific research.
DURIP (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring major research equipment for defense-relevant research capabilities.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds research equipment and instrumentation for university labs working on Navy and defense-relevant science.
Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds research equipment and instrumentation for U.S. universities doing science important to national defense.
DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States quantum technology research aiming for scalable, error-corrected computing breakthroughs.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
Aid for Collaborating Entities (Ayudas a Entidades Colaboradoras)
🇪🇸ICEX · Spain
Offers ICEX-backed trade-promotion support through sector associations for Spanish companies presenting at international fairs.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds research capacity at HBCUs and minority institutions doing naval-relevant science and engineering.
AFRL/RD HPEM Modeling and Effects BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds high-power electromagnetics modeling and effects research to strengthen defense science over time.
ONR Long Range BAA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports Navy and Marine science teams through ONR Long Range access to opportunities across science and technology domains.
ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Funds civil, structural, materials and environmental research across the Army's engineering labs, continuously open with no real dollar ceiling on record.
Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity
🇬🇧AHRC · United Kingdom
Doctoral training in language-grounded research through HEI-led consortia.
Key electronic components
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European manufacturers to expand production capacity for the electronic components that bottleneck drone, missile and defence-electronics supply chains.
Platforms and end-products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European defence-industry consortiums to expand EU production capacity for platforms and end-products such as armoured vehicles, aircraft, radars, naval systems and satellite payloads.
Unmanned systems and counter-unmanned systems
🇺🇦European Commission · European Union
Pays joint EU-Ukraine defence-industry consortiums up to €10 million per project to scale up production of drones and counter-drone systems for Ukraine.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) - RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds a first-time faculty investigator paired with an experienced DoD-funded mentor on defense-relevant research.
FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) CAPACITY BUILDING (CB)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Funds multi-year defense-relevant research at universities in states that get little competitive DoD research funding.
ARO MURI
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university teams pursuing long-range defense research collaborations and shared outcomes.