RAPID — Dual Innovation Support Scheme (Régime d'APpui à l'Innovation Duale)
Supports French small and medium-sized companies developing dual-use defense innovation without annual deadlines.
RAPID sits under Agence de l'innovation de défense as the agency's rolling dual-use subsidy line for French SMEs and mid-caps. It backs projects in the TRL 3 to 7 range and is meant for companies that can turn a technical idea into a defense-relevant product or service without waiting for a single annual deadline. It is a grant program open to for-profit French companies with up to 2,000 employees, and it can support single applicants or consortia. The route is continuous, French-language, and tied to a pre-project step before submission. The extracted record does not publish a fixed ceiling, so the main public signal is the eligibility window rather than a formal award cap. Applicants fit best when the project is clearly dual-use, already scoped enough to discuss technical milestones, and grounded in France. The strongest cases are usually SMEs or ETIs that can show a practical path from prototype to integration and explain why the defense use case matters now.
Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.