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Cooperative agreements

Explore cooperative agreements. This directory lists funding where the agency takes an active role in the work it pays for, common in US federal research, health, energy and defense programs, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing.

Showing 1-24 of 386 grants

U.S. Department of Defense logo
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Cook Inlet Beluga Whale (CIBW) Prey, Salmon Productivity Monitoring at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER).

🇺🇸DoD · United States

Funds long-term salmon and beluga-whale-prey monitoring at an Alaska military base, starting from a brief statement of interest.

$168K – $1.3MSep'26
DO
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Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds research on how beetle-killed spruce forests in Alaska open the door to an invasive tree.

$453KSep'26
DO
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Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds modelling how seafloor sediment properties shape coastline damage during major storms.

$350KSep'26
DO
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Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds extending an invasive-mussel risk model to guide inspection stations in Washington and California.

$250KSep'26
DO
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Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds building monthly drought forecast maps that tell rangeland managers when restoration will likely succeed.

$480KSep'26
Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy logo
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ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready

🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States

Funds United States alumni technologies moving from prior support into commercial pilots and scale-out activity.

Climate TechFusion+3
$5M – $20MSep'26
National Institute of Standards and Technology logo
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Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs

NIST · United States

Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

AIAdvanced Materials+1
Sep'26
DO
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Department of Interior Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)Fire Leaders And Managers, Emerging Scientists (FLAMES)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds a graduate student's own wildfire research project, paired with hands-on time with fire practitioners.

$5K – $40KSep'26
DO
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U.S Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Fire Science Exchange Announcement

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds leading a two-year regional exchange connecting fire scientists with the practitioners who use their work.

$192K – $262KSep'26
DO
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U.S. Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Primary Announcement

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds research on why fire regimes are changing and how prescribed-fire smoke affects air quality.

$300K – $500KSep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
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NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Academic Community Sites

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds an academic centre leading a network of community hospitals to enrol patients into NCI cancer trials — about 50 awards from $73 million.

Biotech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
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NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Community Sites

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds community hospitals and oncology practices to enrol their own patients into NCI cancer trials — about 50 awards from a $73 million pool.

Biotech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
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NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Bases

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds the seven hubs that design, run and analyse NCI's community cancer trials — and carry the regulatory and data load for every site in the network.

Biotech
Sep'26
DO
Open

Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Hawaii- Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

🇺🇸DOI · United States

Funds research on stopping invasive brown treesnakes from spreading further across Guam and the Pacific.

$2.5MSep'26
Bureau of Justice Statistics logo
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BJS FY 2026 Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole (ASPP) RY 2026-2030

🇺🇸BJS · United States

Funds one cooperative agreement to run BJS's national count of adults on probation and parole, 2026 through 2030.

$2.3MSep'26
Bureau of Justice Statistics logo
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BJS FY 2026 Criminal History Record Assessment and Research Program (CHRARP)

🇺🇸BJS · United States

Funds converting state and federal rap-sheet data into standardised research datasets for BJS's recidivism and criminal-career studies.

$1.8MSep'26
Bureau of Justice Statistics logo
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BJS FY 2026 National Incident-Based Reporting System Estimation Program

🇺🇸BJS · United States

Funds improving the technical systems BJS uses to estimate national crime and arrest counts from incomplete police reporting.

$5.3MSep'26
US Department of Energy logo
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Advancing Oil and Natural Gas Production and Delivery

🇺🇸DOE · United States

Funds technology that makes U.S. oil and gas production, infrastructure and digital operations more efficient, reliable and resilient — no cost share required.

Energy Tech
$28MSep'26
Bureau of Justice Statistics logo
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BJS FY 2026 State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers

🇺🇸BJS · United States

Funds each state's official crime-statistics office to collect, analyse and publish criminal-justice data for state planning.

$225KSep'26
Army Medical Research and Development Command logo
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DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Clinical Trial Award

🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States

Funds a clinical trial in one of the year's congressionally named disease topics, sized by phase into three cost tiers.

Biotech
Sep'26
Army Medical Research and Development Command logo
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DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Platform Clinical Translation Award

🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States

Funds a multi-investigator platform product through translational and early-phase trials, with each partnering investigator on a separate award.

BiotechMedtech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Atopic Dermatitis Research Network (ADRN)

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds centres doing clinical and translational research on eczema — chronic skin inflammation and how the skin defends itself. Four awards from $4.52 million.

BiotechMedtech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
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Limited Competition: Specific Pathogen Free Macaque Colonies to Support HIV/AIDS Research

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds continuing breeding colonies of specific pathogen-free macaques that HIV and AIDS research depends on. Only existing colonies may apply.

Biotech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
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Metastasis Research Network

NIH · United States

Funds four centres to work out how cancer actually spreads — each on one theme, through two or three interlocking basic research projects.

Biotech
$1.3MSep'26

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