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Specific Topics
Specific topics describe clearly defined needs with exact technical goals or outcomes. They’re focused requests for solutions that meet specific requirements.
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Deadline: Rolling Deadline
Funding Award Size: $5m
Description: Learn how the U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) funds innovative commercial technologies across robotics, AI, autonomy, power systems, software, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and defense applications.
Deadline: July 22, 2026
Funding Award Size: $5m
Description: Learn about the DIU Specular MIST Prize Challenge, offering a $5 million prize pool for commercial technologies supporting maritime electronic warfare, radar simulation, and electronic surveillance. Explore eligibility, funding, timelines, and how to apply before the July 22, 2026 deadline.
Deadline: July 23, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k+
Description: Apply for the Defense Innovation Unit's Massed Modular Aircraft solicitation. Learn eligibility, prototype OTA requirements, evaluation criteria, application deadline, and follow-on production opportunities.
Deadline: October 8, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k+
Description: Rapid Prototyping and Flight Demonstration of Medium-Range Affordable Mass Munition (MRAMM) Air Vehicle Configurations opportunity supporting affordable mass air-to-air weapon prototypes for collaborative combat aircraft, fighter platforms, and future operational systems through the ONIX OTA.
Deadline: July 7, 2027
Funding Award Size: $500k+
Description: Apply for the NSWC Crane Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), an open defense R&D funding opportunity supporting electronic warfare, AI, hypersonics, sensors, power systems, microelectronics, and other national security technologies. Rolling submissions accepted through July 7, 2027.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: The National Cancer Institute's FY2027 SBIR Innovative Concept Award Program supports small businesses developing innovative therapies, diagnostics, devices, and digital health technologies for pediatric and rare cancers. Learn eligibility, timelines, and application requirements.
Deadline: August 13th
Funding Award Size: $25m
Description: The U.S. Space Force and AFRL are seeking university-led teams for the Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI): Space Cyber-Cognitive Overmatch (SCCO). Learn about funding, eligibility, technical focus areas, deadlines, and application requirements.
Deadline: August 24th
Funding Award Size: $10m-$20m
Description: Learn about the DARPA Radiofrequency Architectures Applying Photonic Timing and Routing (RAAPTR) solicitation, including funding, eligibility, deadlines, evaluation criteria, and how to apply for DARPA-PS-26-126.
Deadline: July 7th
Funding Award Size: $500k+
Description: Apply for the NIWC Atlantic Zero Trust Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Roadmap OTA prototype. Learn eligibility, deadlines, evaluation criteria, and how companies can compete for this Department of the Navy opportunity.
Deadline: October 9th
Funding Award Size: $300k per year
Description: Apply for NIH PRIMED-AI funding to develop standardized frameworks for multimodal AI clinical decision support tools. Up to $300,000 per year for two years. Applications due October 09, 2026, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Deadline: July 30
Funding Award Size: TBD
Description: Defense Health Agency Request for Prototype Proposal HT942726RE009 seeking FDA-approved single-use battlefield analgesic products. Learn eligibility, prototype OTA requirements, timeline, and proposal details.
Deadline: July 21st
Funding Award Size: Up to $4m
Description: Apply for the U.S. Department of State's Mitigating Proliferation Risks Posed by Artificial Intelligence Enabled Molecular Models and Leveraging Nonproliferation Opportunities funding opportunity. Learn who is eligible, available funding, project requirements, deadlines, and how to prepare a competitive application.
Deadline: July 15th
Funding Award Size: Under $2m
Description: Apply for up to $1.9 million through the MTEC Autonomous Closed Loop Control Mechanical Ventilation (ACLCMV) solicitation supporting Defense Health Agency development of next-generation military ventilators. Enhanced White Papers are due July 15, 2026, Noon Eastern Time.
Deadline: July 24th
Funding Award Size: Under $2m
Description: Apply for the MTEC PRimer and prObe Manufacturing PlaTform (PROMPT) funding opportunity supporting DTRA. Learn eligibility, funding, deadlines, project requirements, evaluation criteria, and how to prepare a competitive application.
Deadline: July 22nd
Funding Award Size: Under $2m
Description: Learn about DARPA's Advancing Autonomous Science for Biological Applications RFI (DARPA-SN-26-96), including eligibility, response requirements, research topics, submission deadline, and how organizations can help shape future DARPA programs.
Deadline: July 22nd
Funding Award Size: Under $2m
Description: Learn about DARPA's Advancing Autonomous Science for Biological Applications RFI (DARPA-SN-26-96), including eligibility, response requirements, research topics, submission deadline, and how organizations can help shape future DARPA programs.
Deadline: September 16
Funding Award Size: Up to $200k
Description: The FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award provides up to $200,000 for innovative vascularized composite allotransplantation research. Applications due September 16, 2026.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: Up to $1.12m
Description: The FY26 Rare Cancers Research Program offers Department of Defense funding through Concept Awards, Idea Development Awards, and Resource and Community Development Awards supporting rare cancer biology, therapies, AI/ML, research platforms, and community infrastructure.
Deadline: July 28th
Funding Award Size: Up to $1.2m
Description: The FY26 Kidney Cancer Research Program offers three Department of Defense funding opportunities, including the Concept Award, Idea Development Award, and Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators Early-Career Scholar Award, providing up to $1.2 million for innovative kidney cancer research.
Deadline: July 17th
Funding Award Size: $500k - $5m
Description: DIBC seeks prototype projects for domestic lithium-ion cell manufacturing and Silver-Zinc battery production modernization. Phase I submissions due July 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET.
Deadline: July 10th
Funding Award Size: $500k - $5m
Description: Apply for DIU’s Farseer program supporting quantum magnetometers, gravimeters, portable clocks, and enabling technologies for ISR applications. Responses due July 10, 2026 at 23:59:59 US/Eastern Time.
Deadline: July 31st
Funding Award Size: $250k - $500k per year
Description: Apply for ONR FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research funding. Awards of $250,000–$500,000 per year are available for Naval communications, networking, MIMO, low-probability-of-detection communications, and related technologies.
Deadline: August 31
Funding Award Size: $2.5k - $135m
Description: NIH NIAID is seeking a single contractor for the Radiological or Nuclear Medical Countermeasure Product Development Support (PDS) program. One IDIQ award with a ceiling of $135 million will support medical countermeasure development, biodosimetry, manufacturing, nonclinical studies, and Phase I clinical research. Proposal deadline: August 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM, Local Time.
Deadline: August 12
Funding Award Size: $5m - $50m
Description: Apply for ARPA-H REST funding to develop next-generation sleep diagnostics, insomnia treatments, wearable biosensors, and closed-loop sleep intervention technologies. Solution Summaries due August 12, 2026 at 12pm ET.
Deadline: July 15
Funding Award Size: $2m-$5m
Description: The DoD's RESHAPE 2.0 initiative will fund advanced packaging, semiconductor packaging, assembly, test, and manufacturing projects that strengthen the U.S. microelectronics supply chain. Multiple OTA awards available through a $1.25 billion program. Apply by July 15, 2026 at 12:00pm Central.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $2m-$3.5m
Description: MTEC's upcoming Military Medical Prototype Advancement RPP is expected to support medical devices, drugs, biologics, and knowledge products across 14 defense health focus areas. Average awards are approximately $2.0M–$3.5M over 2–3 years.
Deadline: August 12th
Funding Award Size: $500k
Description: Apply for NASA’s Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge and compete for up to $500,000 in prize funding. Develop ISAM technologies for robotic manipulation in orbit and gain access to a potential hosted orbital flight test.
Deadline: April, 22nd 2027
Funding Award Size: $500k
Description: The U.S. Army is seeking commercial Electromagnetic Warfare & Collection (EW&C) solutions through the REWSI CSO. Multiple contracts and OTA awards are anticipated for AI-enabled EMSO, EW, SIGINT, spectrum operations, and open-architecture defense technologies. Solution Briefs due 22 April 2027 at 1600 EST.
Deadline: July 15th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k
Description: Apply for the NIH Targeting RNA in Disease with Novel Technologies (TRDNT) Challenge. Win up to $20,000 in Phase I and compete for up to $13.1 million in total prizes. Applications close July 15, 2026.
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: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Apply for up to $314,000 in MDA SBIR funding to develop GPS-denied event-based navigation for missile defense and space systems. Deadline: August 19, 2026.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: The United States currently faces an "unprecedented" military buildup by China and increasing air and missile threats that demand a robust deterrent. However, the current inventory of longrange strike weapons is dominated by high-cost, low-volume systems or aging strategic assets like the Minuteman III, which dates back to the 1960s. The lack of a cost-effective, ground-launched payload delivery system prevents the Joint Force from achieving producibility at scale, leaving the U.S. vulnerable in high-intensity, multi-domain environments where high-end munitions would be rapidly depleted. The objective of this topic is to facilitate innovative research on low-cost, rapidly manufacturable, payload delivery systems.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: This topic will explore optimizing the UH-60M interior to provide improved capability over the existing HH-60M in terms of survivability, functionality, and patient access by designing a modular Patient Handling System (PHS) that could be tailored to fit a multitude of aircraft.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Develop and integrate a distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that can collaboratively command and control a multi-agent Group 1 or Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) swarm to defend an area against a numerically superior enemy swarm.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Develop and integrate a distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that can collaboratively command and control a multi-agent Group 1 or Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) swarm to defend an area against a numerically superior enemy swarm.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Development and application of highly dispersible, survivable, and scalable kinetic defeat mechanisms capable of neutralizing Group 1-3 UAS threats.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: The objective of this SBIR is to develop integrated digital capabilities that will assist spaceport operations in enhancing mission readiness.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $175k
Description: The objective of this Phase I effort is to identify, assess, and demonstrate the feasibility of novel, non–missile-warning space and/or ground enabled sensing and analytic capabilities that can deliver rapid, commercially derived insights with meaningful operational utility.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $315k
Description: Provide specialized waveguides capable of high temperature, high power, low loss, robust, and agile transmission of radio frequency (RF) signals within a hypersonic vehicle.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $315k
Description: Develop an environmentally friendly processing method to produce a plant-based carbon fiber precursor for high-temperature applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $1.2m
Description: Develop and demonstrate a co-packaged temperature-hard (-269°C to +600°C) and radiation-tolerant NOR Flash memory system for extreme environment applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $1.5m
Description: The goal of this effort is to combine advanced machine learning (ML) methods that can be computationally efficient in structured data with large language models (LLM) that are general and can extract context from data. The aim is to derive powerful and efficient technology for interactive statistical analysis of large-scale data seen such as in enterprise or battlefield.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: To develop and demonstrate a predictive/forecasting model that leverages Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting using In-Context Learning from novel, multilingual, and multimodal data. The goal is to develop and test a capability that increases the forecasting timeline from days to weeks in advance of an event, while increasing forecasting precision to at least 90%.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a universal assessment framework capable of automating Control Validation Tests (CVT) across diverse operating environments (Cloud, On-Premise, and Air-Gapped/Tactical). The solution must ingest data from existing vulnerability scanners and automatically correlate technical findings to NIST SP 800-53 controls, reducing manual administrative overhead and allowing assessment teams to focus on mission-critical risk analysis.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Realize next-generation neuromorphic technology to enable continuous adaptation and self-optimization to maintain overmatch in Electronic Warfare (EW) and cyber-contested domains.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: To advance and adopt chip-scale photonic and quantum technologies for operation in the Missile Defense System.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: The application of Very Large Array (VLA) techniques to the utilization of existing transmission infrastructure.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop low-cost software defined circular-band (ring shape) antenna for near-omnidirectional missile to missile communication in high-speed endo-atmospheric and exo-atmospheric environments.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a process to radiation harden commercial microelectronics that were not originally designed to operate in radiation environments.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop and demonstrate advanced thermal battery technology that significantly reduces size and weight while extending operational life, enabling enhanced performance and mission capabilities for missile defense systems.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Design and develop an agile software defined radio (SDR) system capable of supporting multi-band communications with advanced frequency management for interceptor platforms.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop and demonstrate low-volatility, reduced-toxicity hypergolic fuels suitable for Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS) thrusters while maintaining critical performance metrics when paired with standard oxidizers.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: This open topic seeks to develop and implement advanced analytical techniques for processing and interpreting historical radiation data (space-based and simulated) to improve the accuracy and predictive capabilities of radiation models, particularly concerning sensor performance and spacecraft survivability.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a reliable, lightweight ignition system for solid propellant propulsion systems that is capable of multiple ignitions.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $250k - $2m
Description: Develop innovative, transition-ready prototype solutions that leverage Department of War inventions made available through the T3CP Patent Holiday Initiative in the areas of Microelectronics, Advanced Materials, Energetics, Munitions, and Critical Minerals and supply-chain-enabling technologies.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: Develop one or more multicomponent prototypes realizing a commercially viable quantum-sensor-related component in an integrated module.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: To design, develop, and demonstrate a large étendue, high spectral resolution Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (ASH) interferometer optimized for quantum sensing, quantum communication support, and dual-use remote sensing applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: Demonstrate a Photon-Number-Resolution pixel array with high counting rates that remains scalable to megapixel size.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: The objective of this project is to develop a nanophotonic-enabled spatial light modulator array with modulation a few orders (>10X) faster than the state-of-the-art commercial technologies
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop an AI/ML-controlled radar waveform generator that dynamically designs a waveform, including adjustments to frequency, modulation, or code in real time to optimize performance under changing conditions and to evade jamming.
Deadline: April 30th, 2030
Funding Award Size: $5m
Description: AFRL's Enterprise CSO funds commercial tech via rolling "Spirals" across 94 Areas of Interest, from hypersonics to quantum. See eligibility, funding, and how to apply.