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 25-48 of 386 grants
Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds new physics for inertial sensors built to break a decade-long precision plateau.
ROSES25: B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds heliophysics research, though this round now accepts only teams already invited past a closed first-stage proposal.
BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds taking a brain recording or stimulation device from prototype through safety testing and an FDA exemption into a first small clinical study.
BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the small clinical trial that settles a brain device's final design — early feasibility studies, from short procedures to chronic implants.
FY26 Bus Safety, Accessibility, and Innovation Notice of Funding Opportunity
🇺🇸FTA · United States
Funds building and testing a bus safety or accessibility concept meant to be widely deployable, not a one-off fix.
Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording/Modulation in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds human clinical studies of next-generation neural devices through research agreements.
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds lab-scale and pilot-scale research that cuts the cost or energy of treating impaired water for reuse.
Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports the development of next-generation neural devices for human neuroscience applications through collaborative research.
Renewal of the Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research (Clin-STAR) Coordinating Center
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the national hub that connects clinicians moving into ageing research — one award of up to $1.5 million for a five-year period.
DARPA BTO Office-wide BAA
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States convergence work in biology, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology for strategic defense purposes.
Biological Technologies
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds biological science pushed toward protecting warfighters, not incremental upgrades to existing methods.
Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
🇺🇸FAA · United States
Funds the ASCENT university coalition's research into alternative jet fuel and aviation's environmental impact.
COE for Technical Training and Human Performance
🇺🇸FAA · United States
Funds university research on training methods and human performance across the FAA's workforce.
DoW Breast Cancer, Breakthrough Award Level 4
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds a single, large breast cancer research effort built around a clinical trial that has to happen.
DoW Breast Cancer, Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds a large, multi-institution team of scientists, clinicians and advocates tackling one breast cancer problem too big for a single lab.
Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support
NIH · United States
Funds one centre that trains researchers in formal drug development for substance use disorder and pays to test their best ideas.
FY 2024 - 2026 - Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
NOAA · United States
Funds weather, water, and climate research and outreach projects that support the National Weather Service's mission, open to foreign applicants too.
FY 2024 - 2026 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA · United States
Funds new NOAA Fisheries projects year-round through the agency's standing, no-fixed-topic funding notice.
FY 2024 - 2026 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
NOAA · United States
Funds new research and projects across NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, through the agency's standing notice.
FY 2026 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Funds DOE Office of Science research in computing, energy sciences, biology, fusion, high-energy and nuclear physics, and isotopes — open to any applicant type.
FY2026 Water Resources Research Act Non-Competitive Coordination
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds the coordination role of a state's designated water research institute, not a competed research project.
FY25 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds Navy and Marine Corps research across almost any science or engineering field through one long-running call.
GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING AND EXPLOITATION (GeoPEX)
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds geospatial-intelligence processing and exploitation work for the Air Force, through a notice that sends applicants straight to SAM.gov.
NOAA NMFS BAA
🇺🇸NOAA · United States
Supports fisheries and marine management research aligned with NOAA mission in the United States.