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Types of Opportunities
Broad Topics
Broad topics cover wide areas of interest where the government wants solutions. They’re open-ended and give you room to define how your idea fits the mission.
Specific Topics
Specific topics describe clearly defined needs with exact technical goals or outcomes. They’re focused requests for solutions that meet specific requirements.
Broad Topic Opportunities:
Start Applying ASAP:
Either the deadline is approaching or there is a competitive reason for applying early (such as funds that will be awarded on a first come first serve basis)
Deadline: Submit White Paper ASAP
Funding Award Size: $250k to $10 million
Description: Funding for research, development, and qualification of strategic and critical materials to strengthen domestic supply chains and support Department of Defense requirements.
Deadline: February 17, 2026 at 23:59:59 US/Eastern Time
Funding Award Size: $300K to $5M+
Description: Apply for DIU funding for containerized autonomous drone delivery systems. OT prototype contracts with DoD. Deadline Feb 17, 2026.
Deadline: March 26, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300K to $5M+
Description: Funding for demonstration and validation of mature energy, water, cybersecurity, and building technologies that improve resilience, efficiency, and mission assurance at DoD installations.
Deadline: Submit ASAP while funds are available. Closes 1/1/27
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: Funding and collaboration to research, integrate, and demonstrate novel technologies on a high-mobility specialist vehicle platform to inform future UK land manoeuvre capabilities.
Deadline: Submit ASAP while funds are available. Closes 5/31/29
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: Funding for scientific and technical research that enhances homeland security capabilities across DHS operational environments and mission areas.
Deadline: White Papers Due June, 22nd
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: This BAA solicits innovative basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and prototype efforts that advance naval aviation capabilities and directly support Department of the Navy mission needs.
Deadline: White Papers Due May, 20th
Funding Award Size: Est. $100K to $10M
Description: The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking innovative research and development in advanced radio frequency (RF) and electro-optical / infrared (EO/IR) sensing technologies to support future air, space, and command-and-control sensor systems.
Deadline: Executive Summary Due April 17, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office seeks revolutionary defense technologies and systems that enable rapid design, manufacturing, sustainment, and disruptive battlefield capability across multiple focus areas.
Deadline: Submit white papers ASAP before funds are allocated.
Funding Award Size: $100K to $10 Million+
Description: Funding for research and development of spacecraft propulsion technologies to improve resiliency and counter satellite threats, including chemical, electric, and multi-mode propulsion systems.
Deadline: March 31, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1M (Track A) to $3M (Track B)
Description: Funding for U.S. companies to develop and demonstrate robotic surface and aerial mobility systems capable of transporting and deploying science payloads in Martian environments.
Deadline: April 9, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500K - $5M
Description: Funding for research and development supporting advanced naval air platforms, sensors, computing, security, and mission systems for manned and unmanned aviation.
Deadline: Apply ASAP. Rolling Deadline until May 16, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k - $2m
Description: Funding for innovative R&D solutions supporting FBI enterprise technology problem sets, including AI, cybersecurity, biometrics, counterintelligence, and data fabric.
Deadline: February 27, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500 - $50 Million
Description: Funding vehicle enabling AFRL to award unclassified science and technology research task orders across air, space, cyber, and cross-cutting defense domains.
Deadline: Rolling Submissions until September 30, 2027
Funding Award Size: $2M to $200M
Description: DoD OTA funding for prototype projects that strengthen U.S. defense manufacturing capacity, workforce readiness, and supply chain resilience across priority industrial base sectors.
Deadline: Rolling Project Pitches
Funding Award Size: $305K + $1.25M+ in follow-on funding
Description: Non-dilutive funding for early-stage startups to develop high-risk, high-impact technologies based on novel science or engineering, with strong commercial and societal potential.
Deadline: February 27, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500K+
Description: Funding for basic and applied research supporting Navy ship, submarine, and maritime technology priorities, including digital ecosystems, hydrodynamics, naval platform integrity, design, signature management, and unmanned systems.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline.
Funding Award Size: Est. $2-$10 Million
Description: Funding for research and development supporting military engineering, environmental science, infrastructure resilience, geospatial systems, computing, materials, energy, and related defense and civil works technologies.
Deadline: June 2, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 million
Description: Funding for revolutionary basic or applied research that advances science, devices, or systems for national security applications.
Deadline: The Request for Solutions (RFS) is expected December 17, 2025 with Gauntlet I beginning February 17, 2026 (est.). This is a multi-phase program running through January 2028.
Funding Award Size: $5 Million+
Description: The Department of War’s Drone Dominance Program seeks low-cost, U.S.-made small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) capable of One-Way Attack (OWA) missions. The program aims to rapidly scale American industrial capacity to produce cheap, attritable, combat-ready drones at volume. Companies compete in Gauntlet field events, and high-scoring systems receive fixed-price production orders.
Deadline: September 29, 2030
Funding Award Size: $10 million to $50 million
Description: Funding to develop cyber operations prototypes that can transition into operational DoD platforms to maintain U.S. superiority in the cyber domain.
Deadline: Estimated: Q4 2025, Q1 2026
Funding Award Size: $75K to $1.8 million
Description: A flexible SBIR/STTR vehicle for technologies with commercial value that could provide similar value to the Space Force or Air Force.
Deadline: September 30, 2027
Funding Award Size: $300K to $5 Million+
Description: : Funding for advancing technologies that enhance human performance, resilience, and health in aerospace and defense environments.
Specific Topic Opportunities:
Start Applying ASAP:
Either the deadline is approaching or there is a competitive reason for applying early (such as funds that will be awarded on a first come first serve basis)
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: USSOCOM JATF seeks industry capabilities to enable Collective Autonomy for heterogeneous unmanned systems. Solutions should provide unified C2, autonomous collaboration, shared situational awareness, resilient networking, and MOSA-based open architecture to reduce operator burden in contested environments.
Deadline: March 2, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. Future $500K to $5 million (Currently RFI Only)
Description: Market research request for deployable 5G systems to support DHS operational needs.
Deadline: April 30, 2026.
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: Market research call seeking Assured and Alternate Position, Navigation, & Timing technologies enabling operations in GNSS-denied or contested environments across dismounted, vehicle, maritime, and uncrewed platforms.
Deadline: February 27, 2026
Description: Apply to DIU’s Runway Independent Maritime & Expeditionary Strike (RIMES) opportunity. Prototype OT funding for long-range unmanned aerial systems. Deadline: February 27, 2026 at 23:59:59 US/Eastern Time.