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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:
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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: October 9th, 2026
Funding Award Size: est. $500k - $2m
Description: NIH/NIAID funding for medical countermeasures against chemical and radiation threats. Supports preclinical R&D, diagnostics, and post-exposure treatments. Deadline: October 9, 2026.
Deadline: Rolling Submission Deadline
Funding Award Size: $20M–$100M
Description: AFRL MSDEW ARA offers $20M–$100M awards for electronic warfare, sensor fusion, and defense systems. Rolling calls open through 13 JULY 2027.
Deadline: September 30th
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: Apply for FY26 Navy propulsion and power R&D funding through NAWCAD’s open BAA. Submit white papers by 30 September 2026 across energy, propulsion, and aircraft systems.
Deadline: April 30th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Apply for DOE’s $69M Critical Minerals Accelerator (DE-FOA-0003589). Get up to $2M for prototype projects and $8M for pilot-scale technologies in recycling, semiconductors, and lithium extraction. Deadlines start April 21, 2026.
Deadline: April 30th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Apply to DARPA’s MATHBAC program offering up to $2M for foundational research in agentic AI, communication protocols, and scientific discovery. Proposal deadline: June 16, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Deadline: May 6th
Funding Award Size: $500k - $10m
Description: Apply to ARPA-H’s STOMP program funding microplastics detection, measurement, and removal technologies. Solution Summary due May 6, 2026 at 5:00PM ET.
Deadline: Rolling Submissions
Funding Award Size: $500k - $10m
Description: Apply to the Golden Dome for America Commercial Solutions Opening. Rolling submissions through 30 September 2035 for innovative defense technologies, prototypes, and mission-critical capabilities.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $385k - $20m
Description: The FY26 DoD PRMRP offers $385K–$20M+ in non-dilutive funding for medical research, clinical trials, and therapeutic development. Pre-announcement—deadlines not yet specified. Prepare now.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $2.4m
Description: Apply for the FY26 Combat Readiness–Medical Research Program (CRRP) offering up to $2.45M for trauma care, battlefield diagnostics, and readiness solutions. Pre-application required.
Deadline: Notice to Apply April 26, 2026; Full Application May 14, 2026
Funding Award Size: Up to $12.5 Million
Description: Reimbursement funding for advanced nuclear project development, including engineering, permitting, site work, and supply chain manufacturing readiness in Texas.
Deadline: Rolling deadline until December 31, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: Rolling submission program connecting commercial technologies to USSOCOM needs across AI, ISR, cyber, mobility, medical, and more, with multiple non-dilutive funding pathways.
Deadline: April 16, 2026 (Preliminary), July 9, 2026 (Full)
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $10M
Description: Flexible, non-dilutive funding for Texas-based companies or those willing to relocate to Texas developing innovative cancer technologies, including AI, bioinformatics, and emerging platform approaches.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline Until September 30, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: Funding for basic and applied research across defense-critical areas including AI, materials, energy, cybersecurity, sensing, and space systems to advance U.S. Navy capabilities.
Deadline: Rolling Submissions until 9/30/26
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: Flexible Air Force funding for innovative commercial technologies in AI/ML, cyber, and defense applications through a rolling CSO process with white paper submissions and invited proposals.
Deadline: Rolling Submissions
Funding Award Size: $400k
Description: Apply for FAA Aviation Research 2025 funding through a rolling BAA. Awards up to $400K/year for aviation R&D across pavements, AI/ML, flight systems, and safety technologies.
Deadline: Rolling White Paper Submissions
Funding Award Size: $500k -$5m
Description: The DEVCOM CBC Broad Agency Announcement supports CBRNE defense R&D across biosensors, aerosol tech, biodetection, decontamination, protective systems, AI/ML, advanced materials, and related mission areas.
Deadline: April 3rd
Funding Award Size: $500k -$2m
Description: Apply to the REEF CSO for funding to develop underwater detection, tracking, and defense systems for U.S. and UK applications. Deadline: 2026-04-03
Deadline: May 11th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $25m
Description: Apply by 11 May 2026, 02:00 PM local time for the NSWC Crane Mobility MAC Follow-On. Multi-award contract supporting vehicle prototyping, testing, and integration with task orders up to $25M.
Deadline: April 6th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k - $2m
Description: Apply for U.S. Army GVSC funding through a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO). Open to innovative commercial technologies in autonomy, power systems, AI, and defense. Key deadline: April 6, 2026.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $500k - $2m
Description: Apply to the Army Applications Lab DevX Autonomy Open Call for innovative autonomous and unmanned system solutions. Rolling submissions through 31 August 2026 with monthly deadlines.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: The FY26 Parkinson’s Research Program (PRP) offers up to $2M for high-impact research. Early investigator and investigator-initiated awards available.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $1.9m
Description: The FY26 DMDRP will fund DMD research with awards up to $1.9M. Pre-announcement now live—prepare early before deadlines are released on Grants.gov.
Deadline: April 15th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $150k-$750k
Description: PASA RFA 8 funding supports drug discovery, pre-clinical, clinical planning, and expansion studies for ASUD research. Pre-applications due 04/15/2026.
Deadline: September 30th
Funding Award Size: $500k - $5m
Description: Apply for U.S. Army funding to support advanced manufacturing, automation, and digital modernization. Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) open until September 30, 2030.
Deadline: April 28, 2026
Funding Award Size: $4.5m
Description: Apply for DOE’s Genesis Mission funding by April 28, 2026, at 11:59 PM Eastern. Phase I awards of $500K–$750K for AI-driven science and energy innovation with multi-institution teams.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $4.5m
Description: The FY26 TERP program offers up to $4.5M for research on military-related toxic exposures, including clinical trials, translational research, and diagnostics.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $1.8m
Description: The FY26 Military Burn Research Program will fund up to $1.8M for innovative burn care research in combat settings. Preproposal required.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $3m
Description: The FY26 JWMRP offers up to $3M for continuation of DOD-funded medical technologies at TRL 5+. Invitation-only funding for trauma, infectious disease, MSK, and radiation solutions. Deadline not yet released.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $1.25m
Description: Apply for FY26 BMFRP funding from CDMRP with awards up to $1.25M. Supports bone marrow failure research, treatments, and resource development. Preproposal required.
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: April 20, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5M
Description: Funding for development of small, low-cost unmanned aircraft systems capable of autonomous, high-speed, long-range operations in contested environments for asymmetric warfare missions.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop robust autopilot flight control for heterogeneous manned/unmanned formation “wake surfing,” enabling precise station-keeping in vortex upwash for 10–20% fuel savings with minimal added hardware and low/zero datalink dependency.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $1.5 Million (Estimated)
Description: Develop software and firmware enhancements for software-defined radios to enable ad-hoc networking and synchronization across heterogeneous RF systems. The solution will improve interoperability among communication, C2, EW, and SAR platforms while maintaining primary mission functions.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop an integrated metal-ceramic matrix infusion for high-strength steel landing gear components to replace hard chrome and HVOF, improving wear/corrosion resistance, durability, readiness, and lifecycle cost while reducing hazardous processes.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop RF photonic front-end technologies that enhance the resilience, bandwidth, and interference resistance of communications and navigation systems, enabling reliable wireless connectivity and assured position, navigation, and timing (PNT) in contested electromagnetic environments.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop scalable multiphysics modeling tools that predict frontal polymerization cure behavior (front temperature/velocity/cure) and resulting distortion/residual stress, while optimizing resin additives and preventing front self-extinguishing.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a lightweight, rugged, low-power device that converts seawater to safe drinking water for downed naval aircrew. Must fit NACES survival kit constraints, minimize human effort, deliver ≥1 gallon/day, and achieve ≥95% salt rejection across harsh environmental and ejection conditions.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $2 Million (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a portable AI/ML-enabled diagnostic module that integrates with optical reflectometry tools to detect, classify, and troubleshoot faults in military avionics fiber-optic networks with centimeter-level precision, improving maintenance efficiency, predictive diagnostics, and aircraft mission readiness.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to design a reduced-cost, multi-frequency helicopter dipping sonar that expands ASW inner/middle-zone coverage and adds aviation mine countermeasures (AMCM) capability in a single, retrofit-compatible transducer system.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $250,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop modular payload technologies for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) compatible with the Picatinny Common Lethality Interface Kit (CLIK) standard. Solutions may include EO/IR sensing, communications relay, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, or cargo delivery payloads integrated across multiple UAS platforms.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $250,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a real-time logistics tracking system that integrates distributed ledger technology, sensor data, and enterprise systems to provide commanders with secure, near-real-time visibility of in-transit military assets, enabling predictive logistics management, improved situational awareness, and faster operational decision-making.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop and demonstrate a cryogenic liquid hydrogen storage and delivery system for Navy/USMC UAS that achieves high mass fraction and low boil-off, improving endurance, range, and continuous payload power.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop nonlinear optical dyes embedded in sol-gel glass that act as optical power limiters to protect EO/IR sensors from frequency-agile lasers and dazzlers while maintaining high infrared transmission and fast response times.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $2 Million (Estimated)
Description: Develop and demonstrate a 10-inch air-launched rocket motor integrating Highly Loaded Grain (HLG) propulsion to increase total impulse and extend operational range by ~30%. The effort advances propulsion performance, thrust shaping, and manufacturing readiness for next-generation tactical rocket systems.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a universal, non-invasive hold-up battery (HUB) tester and low-voltage alert device for Type 1 encryption systems to prevent battery-related software loss, reduce depot returns, improve readiness, and simplify battery interval tracking for long-term storage conditions.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop low-cost, lightweight, flexible printed organic thermoelectric cooling films (tight bend radius <1”) for personal warfighter cooling or conformal cooling of curved military-platform surfaces.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $2 Million (Estimated)
Description: Develop a U.S.-based pilot manufacturing process to produce high-purity zirconium and hafnium metal-organic precursors (e.g., TDMAZ, TDMAH) used in semiconductor, microelectronics, and advanced ceramic manufacturing via ALD, CVD, and CVI deposition processes.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop an AI/ML-enhanced optical fire detector capable of operating in aircraft engine nacelles up to 400°F, enabling rapid fire detection, reduced false alarms, and reliable performance in high-temperature environments.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to build an M&S tool that generates validated, high-fidelity EO/IR virtual clutter models (weather-explicit 3D clouds and/or debris fields) with thermal/optical/physical attributes for real-time scene generation (60 Hz–1 kHz) to test missile warning, IR countermeasure, and ISR systems in high-clutter environments.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop robotic systems to automate or assist the assembly of Expeditionary Airfield matting in austere environments, enabling autonomous navigation, heavy mat handling, and precise alignment to improve deployment speed, reduce manual labor, and enhance operational safety.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a low-SWaP, open-architecture airborne software-defined radio using MOSA and MBSE to support multi-band communications, secure waveforms, and interoperability across Navy and Marine Corps aircraft platforms.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $2 Million (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a passive structural health monitoring system that detects, locates, and characterizes ship hull cracks in real time, providing automated severity/criticality insights beyond strain-gauge inference methods.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop an A-size deployable low-frequency vertical line array of vector sensors for long-range passive ASW detection, directional sensitivity, and STANAG 4718 compliant communications in deep-water operations.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Development of a portable induction welding system that enables in-situ repair of thermoplastic composite aircraft components on naval aviation platforms, reducing downtime and scrap rates by allowing field maintenance without removing damaged material.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a modern, modular tropical cyclone forecasting software suite with containerized architecture that integrates legacy and new models, data sources, and APIs to automate storm analysis, prediction, and dissemination for operational forecasting centers.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $2 Million (Estimated)
Description: Develop and integrate Highly Loaded Grain (HLG) propellant into a 2.75" Mk66 rocket motor to increase total impulse and extend weapon range by ~30% while maintaining compatibility with existing rocket motor materials, systems, and operational environments.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a high-speed telemetry antenna system for reentry test bodies that transmits encrypted inflight data via K/Ka-band links to geostationary satellites, enabling real-time communication and improved data capture during ballistic missile flight testing.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a high-power (10W CW) blue laser (425–475 nm) with long coherence length (>10 m) and high pulse repetition (>100 MHz) for reliable continuous operation in demanding Navy environments.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop passive, thermal-equilibrium alkali atom sources (Rb/Cs) with synthetically controlled vapor density to simplify thermal management and improve stability/SWaP for practical atom-based quantum sensors.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a throttleable solid-fuel rotating detonation ramjet by integrating a controllable gas generator for precise fuel regulation, enabling stable detonation operation and efficient high-speed propulsion across varied mission profiles.
Deadline: May 6, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: U.S. Army xTech Phantum Competition offers small businesses a path to $300K SBIR funding for quantum sensors and photonics. White papers due May 6, 2026.