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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: March 25th
Funding Award Size: $500k - $2m
Description: DARPA’s Promethean Clay program (DARPA-PS-26-16) funds breakthrough electrical energy storage systems designed through mechanical and electrochemical co-design. Proposal deadline: April 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM ET.
Deadline: Within 45 calendar days of a qualifying weather event or disaster
Funding Award Size: Up to $300,000 (12-month project period)
Description: Rolling USDA funding for rapid extension and applied research projects that mitigate agricultural production, supply chain, and community impacts from recent weather-related disasters, including droughts, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and extreme temperature events.
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: 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: 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: 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: Just Extended to March 17, 2026.
Funding Award Size: Est. $1 to $10 million
Description: This BAA funds new, innovative research concepts that advance the state of the art across the full spectrum of Army armaments, munitions, fire control, autonomy, energetics, advanced materials, soldier lethality, logistics, AI/ML, sensors, and related technologies. Proposed efforts must be scientific studies or experimentation that increase knowledge within the DEVCOM Armaments Center technical community.
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: July 31, 2028
Funding Award Size: $2 Million to $10 Million
Description: Funding for research and development that advances biomedical solutions, human performance optimization, and medical readiness technologies supporting U.S. Special Operations Forces. Projects may address areas such as damage control resuscitation, prolonged field care, medical sensors and diagnostics, brain health, force protection, canine medicine, or other SOF-relevant capabilities.
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: 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 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 safe, efficient, scalable domestic production of norbornadiene from abundant U.S. feedstocks (preferably bio-feedstocks), targeting >500 metric tons/year, >97% purity, and <$20/kg cost.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop high-rate Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) and power interface/control architectures that smooth intermittent pulsed loads on Navy ships by load-leveling generators and delivering 4–10 MJ at 2–4 MW with sub-second response.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop a low-cost, ship-ready waste heat recovery system that converts DDG 51 LM2500 main engine exhaust heat into electrical power while minimizing impacts to ship systems, space, weight/stability, and radar cross section.
Deadline: Within 45 calendar days of a qualifying weather event or disaster
Funding Award Size: Up to $300,000 (12-month project period)
Description: Rolling USDA funding for rapid extension and applied research projects that mitigate agricultural production, supply chain, and community impacts from recent weather-related disasters, including droughts, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and extreme temperature events.
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.