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 1,181 grants
DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States quantum technology research aiming for scalable, error-corrected computing breakthroughs.
Innobooster Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.
CCRP Initiative: NIH Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research on how nerve agents, industrial chemicals and pesticides injure the nervous system, and where a countermeasure could interrupt it.
FENG Smart Path — Consortium Projects
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Supports consortiums linking Polish enterprises with research teams to turn laboratory results into market products.
AFRL/RX Functional Materials Open BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports advanced functional materials research in the United States through Air Force opportunities.
Research Ireland – Defence Innovation Challenge
🇮🇪Research Ireland · Ireland
Funds Irish research teams up to €220,000, with a €1 million prize for the top defence solution.
ONR FY27 NOFO for Young Investigator Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds early-career university faculty doing naval-relevant science, engineering or mathematics research.
CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Horizon Civil Security: Disaster-Risk Tech Uptake
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that help already-proven emergency and civil-protection technology reach first responders and public agencies across Europe.
Horizon Civil Security: Disruptive Tech Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €1.5M projects that take an early-stage security technology and prove it works with the practitioners and public authorities who'd use it.
Horizon Civil Security: Green Transition Risks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €4M project that studies the physical and cyber security risks green technology creates in cities, and how to manage them.
Horizon Civil Security: Policing Climate-Driven Crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M projects that build police technology and training to counter crime that climate change fuels, from environmental crime to carbon-market fraud.
Horizon Civil Security: Public Procurement of Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a cross-border consortium of public procurers and practitioners to jointly buy near-market civil security technology — not to build it.
Horizon Civil Security: Risk Awareness & Preparedness
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that build risk-communication tools and cross-government preparedness plans, from citizen outreach to emergency coordination systems.
Horizon Civil Security: Terrorism Prevention in Confined Spaces
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.8M projects that help police and communities catch radicalisation early and stop lone-actor attacks on schools and public buildings.
Horizon Climate Security: Crisis Scenario Planning
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools that help European civil protection authorities plan for and respond to climate-driven disasters like floods, wildfires and heat waves.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Multi-Hazard Resilience Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M projects that give infrastructure operators and first responders shared tools to spot risks and coordinate across borders during a crisis.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Stress-Test Tools
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.84M projects giving infrastructure operators and authorities better ways to simulate disruptions, spot weak points, and learn from real incidents.
Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.