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 169-192 of 1,185 grants
BIRD HLS (Homeland Security)
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Funds BIRD HLS joint projects for homeland security and critical infrastructure applications through bilateral cooperation.
BIRD Homeland Security
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Funds U.S.-Israeli teams developing homeland security technologies through BIRD conditional grants.
Build Our Future Grant
🇺🇸MD Commerce · United States
Funds Maryland innovation infrastructure across aerospace, cybersecurity, quantum, and robotics programs.
Call for Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Proposals
🇮🇳TIHAN · India
Funds graduating students with a ₹3 lakh, six-month fellowship to build autonomous-navigation startups.
Call for SSS Proposals from Entrepreneurs
🇮🇳TIHAN · India
Funds proven Indian startups up to ₹25 lakhs to build autonomous-navigation technology.
Call for Startup Proposals
🇮🇳TIHAN · India
Funds Indian autonomous-navigation startups up to ₹15 lakhs for a 12-month project.
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.
Challenge for All Defense
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean defense startups validating prototypes and proofs of concept with military and industry buyers.
DASA / UKDI Open Call for Innovation (paused
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports disruptive defence and security innovation through the UKDI route during transition toward renewed innovation operations.
Deep Tech Startup Pitch Competition
Deep Tech Atelier · Latvia
Lets early-stage deep tech founders worldwide pitch investors live for partner prizes in Riga.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Skilling
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Supports Australia's defence sector by funding technical training and professional upskilling for strategic capability teams.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Sovereign Industrial Priorities
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Funds Australian defence small businesses to upgrade industrial manufacturing capacity aligned with national sovereign priorities through matched equipment support.
Defence Innovation Loans
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Invests through United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans in mature defence innovations to support late-stage commercialization.
Defence Innovation Loans
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Provides United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans financing for mature defence solutions needing capital before full commercialization.
Defence Innovation Loans/27 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Funds companies with strong defense applications through development loans and advisory support for advanced innovation.
DHS SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸DHS S&T · United States
Supports small businesses addressing homeland security needs with early feasibility innovation in cybersecurity, border operations, and safety-critical tools.
DHS Small Business Innovation Research Program
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses developing homeland security technologies through DHS SBIR grants.
Digital Twin Adoption Accelerator
🇬🇧Catapult Network · United Kingdom
Funds a UK technology SME and its industry partner adopting digital twin technology through an Innovate UK grant delivered by Digital Catapult.
DoW SBIR — Open Topics
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports United States defense innovators in AI, aerospace, and advanced systems development.
DoW STTR — Open Topics
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports United States innovation teams in strategic technology areas across security and digital fields.
Elevate Vermont — SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸ACCD · United States
Funds Vermont federal award recipients with matching support for commercialization planning and market launch execution.
EUDIS Business Accelerator
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.
FINEP Mais Inovação Brasil — Defense Industrial Base (Base Industrial de Defesa)
🇧🇷FINEP · Brazil
Funds strategic defense technology development in aerospace and advanced manufacturing.
Frontiers in Research Summits
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M faculty summits that connect researchers and trigger new collaborative science initiatives.