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 145-168 of 1,185 grants
Horizon Civil Security: Secure Cargo and Customs Control
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €3.5M projects that detect dangerous, illicit and smuggled goods in cargo while keeping trade moving.
Open-Source Intelligence Risks to Critical Infrastructure
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds civil-security tools that expose malicious OSINT risks and protect critical infrastructure continuity.
Trustworthy Decision Support for Disaster Crises
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds trustworthy crisis intelligence that turns near-real-time data into faster, more inclusive disaster decisions.
Support for SEAP Functioning and Defence Industrial Readiness Pools
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays already-established SEAPs to fund at least a year of operations, including running defence industrial readiness pools.
Florida R&D Tax Credit (Expenses)
🇺🇸FDOR · United States
Provides Florida companies with tax credit support for qualifying innovation spending.
Environmental Crimes
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Zero-equity co-funding for satellite services that detect and trace environmental crime.
DARPA BTO Office-wide BAA
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States convergence work in biology, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology for strategic defense purposes.
DARPA DSO Office-wide BAA
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States defense science ideas with high-security relevance across devices, systems, and cross-domain innovation.
Industry Growth Program — Commercialisation and Growth
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Funds Australian small businesses scaling deep-tech products from prototypes toward broader national and global growth.
NASA SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses developing and demonstrating technology innovations that advance NASA missions, following a successful Phase I feasibility award.
NASA STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners developing and demonstrating technology innovations through NASA's STTR Phase II award.
Open Call for Innovation
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.
SpaceWERX STRATFI (Strategic Funding Increase)
🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses scaling strategic space technologies through SBIR/STTR matching contracts with government and private co-investment.
AFOSR HBCU/MI Program
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports minority-serving and historically black institutions through foundational Air Force research grants.
AFOSR STTR Phase I
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Offers small business and institution teams early research support for foundational Air Force concepts.
AFOSR STTR Phase II
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports small business teams extending validated concepts toward robust defense development.
AFRL/AFOSR Center of Excellence
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-stage Air Force fundamental research at universities, nonprofits, and industry partners.
AFWERX Specific Topic SBIR Release 1
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports small business technology opportunities through focused Air Force innovation calls.
AFWERX Specific Topic SBIR Release 2
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports a second focused set of Air Force small-business technology opportunities in emerging domains.
AFWERX Specific Topic STTR Release 1
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports research institution partnerships in Air Force technical areas through targeted collaboration pathways.
AFWERX TACFI
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Provides matching investment to small businesses bridging from Phase II toward Phase III commercialization.
APFIT-1 — Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports small business and non-traditional contractors with procurement bridge funding for pre-production solutions.
ARO DEPSCoR (Annual Cycle)
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports institutions in underserved regions with research funding for non-traditional defense science.
BG16RFPR001-6.001 Strengthening Industrial Capacity in Defense Capabilities
🇧🇬Bulgarian Ministry of Innovati · United Kingdom
Funds Bulgarian defense and dual-use manufacturers — from micro to large enterprises — acquiring equipment, software, and IP to expand defense production capacity under the PKIP programme.