Army SBIR/STTR

Department of the Army SBIR/STTR is the U.S. Army's small-business research and development program, run through DEVCOM and the Army Research Laboratory. It sits inside the Department of Defense's innovation system and manages an annual award pool of about $280 million across phases. The program is built to bring small companies into Army-relevant work rather than to fund general-purpose startups. It uses grant funding for ground combat platforms, soldier systems, networks and cyber, autonomy, advanced materials, and medical countermeasures. The Army also uses xTechSearch and xTechProgram as feeders into SBIR Phase I and Direct-to-Phase II opportunities. Topics are released monthly under the DoD-wide BAA cycle, with Army component lines tying each call to a specific office or need. The best fit is a U.S. for-profit small business that can work in defense settings and stay within the program's TRL 2-6 band. Companies with relevant prototypes, component-level technologies, or dual-use systems that map cleanly to an Army topic tend to have the clearest path. Applicants are strongest when they can translate a narrow technical advance into a soldier-relevant capability with a credible development plan.

Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.