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 49-72 of 1,185 grants
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)
🇺🇸AMC · United States
Invests research teams and institutions for LPS Qubit Collaboratory BAA in quantum systems, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds white papers under a standard Broad Agency Announcement inside the Air Force's CHEERS human-performance research strategy.
Chemical Countermeasures Research Program (CCRP) Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic (UPS) Opioids
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research on the harm caused by a single exposure to ultra-potent synthetic opioids, including the effects that appear later.
ARL BAA
🇺🇸ARL · United States
Supports continuous Army science research for universities, companies, and nonprofits across broad disciplines.
ARO Core BAA — Single Investigator
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Offers core basic research grants across physical, engineering, and information science domains in the Army.
ARO Early Career Program (YIP)
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports early-career faculty pursuing Army basic research through direct funding pathways.
HTMDEC Rolling BAA White Papers
🇺🇸ARL · United States
Supports high-throughput materials discovery under Army priorities through focused research proposals.
Limited Competition: CCRP Initiative: Promoting a Basic Understanding of Chemical Threats to Skin
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research on skin injury from chemicals identified as public health threats, looking for shared pathways a single countermeasure could target.
BARDA BAA (through
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports teams developing countermeasure technologies for CBRN, diagnostics, and readiness-focused therapeutics through BARDA BAA.
AFRL/RD Tactical BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds directed energy development from early concept through advanced demonstration in defense applications.
DHS S&T LRBAA 24-01
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Runs research teams and institutions for DHS S&T LRBAA Submissions in cybersecurity, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds university-partnered directed-energy research, through a cooperative agreement with an unusually large ceiling and few published details.
Air Dominance BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Funds air dominance innovation in sensing, autonomy, and engagement systems for national security priorities.
US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
AMC · United States
Funds Army research proposals across soldier feeding, protection, biomechanics and training technology on a rolling basis.
Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
🇺🇸DTRA · United States
Funds fundamental research countering weapons of mass destruction, through a rolling Defense Threat Reduction Agency announcement.
Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and Sustaining
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds Air Force human-performance research, but only through the two grant-eligible solicitations sitting beneath this umbrella notice.
Army SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Army · United States
Funds United States Army-focused small businesses demonstrating technology feasibility for soldier and mobility needs.
Army SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Army · United States
Supports United States Army-aligned innovators advancing validated technologies toward deployable military-ready systems.
BIRD Cyber
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Funds U.S.-Israeli teams developing cybersecurity applications through BIRD grants.
DARPA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States small businesses validating high-risk defense science concepts for practical technical development.
DARPA SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports United States defense innovators building on validated concepts into advanced prototypes and field testing.
AEA Innovate Round 2
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Connects research teams and institutions for AEA Innovate in artificial intelligence, agriculture innovation, and materials science.
AFOSR BAA — Basic Research
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds basic research at United States universities across defense science, materials, aerospace, and quantum topics.