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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:
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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: 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: January 15, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 million
Description: DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is seeking high-risk, high-reward research ideas that revolutionize microelectronics, integrated circuits, photonics, quantum systems, biological circuits, and manufacturing ecosystems. This office-wide BAA targets breakthrough microsystems that create or prevent strategic surprise for national security.
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 million
Description: DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) is seeking revolutionary, high-risk research ideas that can create new mission-level capabilities across air, space, sea, land, and the electromagnetic spectrum. This BAA supports disruptive systems, devices, or architectures that go beyond incremental improvements and are not already covered under existing STO programs.
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Funding Award Size: $5 Million to $40 Million
Description: DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) Critical Minerals and Materials Program will fund the design, construction, and operation of mining technology proving grounds and initial mine technology projects that accelerate next-generation mining technologies for U.S. critical minerals and materials, strengthen domestic supply chains, and provide a national testbed and training platform for responsible mining.
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:
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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: December 15, 2025
Funding Award Size: $20 Million+
Description: The U.S. Army and DIU seek commercial partners to design, prototype, and deliver first-of-a-kind (FOAK) and second-of-a-kind (SOAK) Microreactor Power Plants (MPP) capable of providing continuous, resilient, 30-year nuclear power for military installations and defense missions. Demonstrations must occur on a U.S. Army installation by 2030.
Deadline: December 15, 2025
Funding Award Size: $10 Million to $75 Million
Description: This NOFO funds the design, construction, and operation of large pilot facilities in the United States to recover byproduct critical materials—including rare earth elements and other critical minerals—from coal-based and other industrial feedstocks, mine waste, and process wastes. The goal is to generate market-ready critical materials and de-risk commercial-scale deployment of these technologies for U.S. energy, defense, and economic security.
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Funding Award Size: $20 Million+
Description: Seeks commercial solutions to prototype and demonstrate responsive, adaptive, and scalable production methods—including digital design, AI-enabled software, 3D printing, CNC, automated molding, and software-defined manufacturing—to strengthen and expand the U.S. domestic space supply chain. The goal is to achieve on-demand production of space systems and components at scale (hundreds per month, thousands per year), enabling a resilient, agile, and commercially viable industrial base capable of supporting defense and dual-use space missions.
Deadline: November 25, 2025
Funding Award Size: $20 Million+
Description: Supports development of industrialized, modular, and advanced-manufacturing construction solutions that can deliver high-quality, sustainable, and energy-resilient military barracks on accelerated timelines—reducing design and build cycles by 30% and costs by 20% or more compared to traditional methods.
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.