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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ARO Core BAA — Single Investigator
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Offers core basic research grants across physical, engineering, and information science domains in the Army.
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.
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.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
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.
AFWERX SpaceWERX STRATFI Space
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports Space Force technology graduates with matching investment for private sector scale-up.