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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AFOSR HBCU/MI Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Supports minority-serving universities with dedicated research funding and inclusion-focused defense partnerships.
AFOSR STTR
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds collaborative basic research pathways for technology transfer from concept through scalable prototypes.
AFRL/AFOSR Center of Excellence — FOAs
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds sustained university center partnerships with the United States defense research community.
AFRL/RD DETER ARA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports directed energy concept teams through AFRL DETER by backing proposals in an open pathway model.
AFWERX Open Topic SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Offers AFWERX open topic support for United States small businesses with dual use ideas through an always open route.
AI Innovation Program — Industry Challenge Matching
🇦🇪MoIAT · United Arab Emirates
Connects United Arab Emirates manufacturers and developers through challenge matching and support from a shared innovation financing pool.
ASCA Innovation Incubation — Pitch Days & Challenges
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Supports Australian innovators with incubation and challenge programs for AI, cybersecurity, and defense technologies.
ASCA Missions — Active Call-Outs
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Helps research teams and institutions for ASCA Missions Active Outs in aerospace, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
BARDA Accelerator Network — POC Funding
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Funds proof-of-concept medical countermeasure projects across diagnostics, digital health, and therapeutic platforms.
BARDA RRPV — Member
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Supports members of dedicated consortiums to pursue medical countermeasure proposals through BARDA rapid response partnership pathways.
BARDA Ventures — Equity Co-Investment
BARDA · United States
Invests in healthcare-focused countermeasure enterprises through BARDA Ventures, advancing diagnostics, vaccines, and resilient production growth stages.
BNDES Funtec — EMBRAPII/SENAI
🇧🇷BNDES · Brazil
Funds Brazilian firms through partnerships for applied innovation with national institutions.
Capacity Development Support Program
🇹🇷KOSGEB · Türkiye
Supports fast-growing Turkish manufacturing, IT, and development firms with subsidized credit for capacity expansion.
DARPA DSO Disruptioneering
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports rapid United States exploratory defense research through fast-distributed projects and compact delivery agreements.
DARPA ERIS (Expedited Research Implementation Series)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Backs research teams and institutions for DARPA ERIS in defense innovation, biotechnology, and medical technology.
DASA Open Call — Defence Rapid Impact (Phase 2)
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Helps research teams and institutions for DASA Defence Rapid Impact in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
DASA Open Call — Emerging Innovations (Phase 1)
🇬🇧Dstl · United Kingdom
Offers research teams and institutions for DASA Emerging Innovations in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
Defence IDEaS — Competitive Projects
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Offers research teams and institutions for Defence IDEaS Competitive Projects in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
Defence Innovation Fund
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom defence startups with rapid MoD contract opportunities in autonomy, robotics, and control systems.
Defence Rapid Impact
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.
Defense Health Agency SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸DHA · United States
Funds United States defense medical innovators at feasibility stage for life-changing military health technologies.
Defense Health Agency SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸DHA · United States
Supports United States defense health teams maturing validated medical technologies toward practical military use.
DHS LRBAA 24-01 — Research
🇺🇸DHS S&T · United States
Supports organizations pursuing homeland security innovation in AI, detection, screening, and resilience through DHS open submissions.
DHS SBIR Phase II (invite-only)
🇺🇸DHS S&T · United States
Supports small businesses in the United States advancing proven homeland security prototypes in a second-stage federal programme.