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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:
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: September 14th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $5m - $50m
Description: ARPA-H STREAM funds next-generation weed control and herbicide monitoring technology. Solution Summaries are due September 14, 2026. See funding, eligibility, and how to apply.
Deadline: January 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: How startups win NIH SBIR funding under the Bioethics Research Highlighted Topic. Deadlines, funding caps, eligibility, and how to apply via PA-27-100.
Deadline: January 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: How startups win NIH SBIR funding for connectedness interventions under the MAHA Chronic Disease Initiative. Deadlines, budgets, eligibility, and how to apply through PA-27-100.
Deadline: January 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: How U.S. startups win NIH SBIR funding for time-sensitive environmental health and disaster research. Deadlines, eligibility, funding caps, and how to apply through Parent SBIR PA-27-100.
Deadline: October 16th,
Funding Award Size: TBD
Description: ARPA-H ASCENT-IBO (SN ARPA-H-SN-26-158) funds accelerated Phase I/II ibogaine trials for opioid use disorder. Solution Summaries due October 15, 2026. Eligibility, tasks, timeline, and funding explained.
Deadline: September 30th, 2026
Funding Award Size: Up to $8m
Description: A complete breakdown of the FY26 Breast Cancer Research Program, covering the Breakthrough Award and Clinical Research Extension Award, funding levels, eligibility, and timeline.
Deadline: November 4th, 2026
Funding Award Size: Up to $1m
Description: A complete breakdown of the FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award, including funding amounts, eligibility, focus areas, and timeline.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: TBD
Description: ARPA-H's FASTPASS program funds non-destructive, through-package sensing technology to detect substandard or contaminated drugs in minutes. Solicitation expected mid-August 2026.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline Through September 2027
Funding Award Size: Up to $5m
Description: A continuously open BAA (through Sept 2027) from the Defense Health Agency and USAMRDC funding combat casualty care, TBI, psychological health, and more. See eligibility, funding structure, and how to apply.
Deadline: September 9th, 2026
Funding Award Size: Up to $12m
Description: PCORI's Broad Pragmatic Studies PFA Cycle 3 2026 offers up to $120 million for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research. LOI due Sept. 9, 2026.
Deadline: August 20th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2.2m
Description: FDA's CDER/CBER is funding up to $2.2M for U01 cooperative agreements using digital health technologies (wearables, sensors, actigraphy) in clinical drug trials. Applications due Aug 20, 2026.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (ONR, FDA partnership) highlights research on ultra-processed foods, infant nutrition, and food contaminants. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIDCD, NIAID) highlights otitis media research and training opportunities across career stages. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (OSP and 18+ ICOs) highlights bioethics research on AI, consent, and community trust in biomedical science. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH highlights research integrating genetics, exposome, and immunology to advance autoimmune disease diagnosis and treatment. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH highlights dissemination and implementation science training via fellowships and career awards. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIA) highlights research on mechanistically grounded explainable AI for aging and lifespan health trajectories. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIAID) highlights large-scale epidemiological research on vaccination and long-term health outcomes. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIAID) highlights NAMs-based research on vaccine efficacy, safety, and mechanistic pathways. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH highlights Food is Medicine research evaluating clinical outcomes for diet-related chronic disease. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIA, NCI, NIDCR) highlights research linking oral health to aging, cognitive decline, cancer, and systemic disease. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (OAR and 15+ ICOs) highlights implementation science research to scale up HIV prevention and treatment. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIEHS, NICHD, NIGMS) highlights research on environmental exposures and mechanisms driving male and female infertility. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIEHS) highlights team science combining environmental engineering with biomedical research to reduce toxic exposures. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIAID and partners) highlights multiscale computational modeling research across disease, aging, and mental health. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIEHS and partners) highlights research on extreme weather's health impacts and interventions for at-risk populations. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH highlights secondary data analysis and data science research across cancer, aging, and chronic disease. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIA, NCI, NIMH) highlights research on real-world cognitive vital signs and behavioral patterns in aging. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH highlights validation research for digital health and AI tools across cancer, aging, mental health, and SUD. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
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 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: $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: 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: Develop a neuro-enhanced AI platform that captures neural, physiological, and behavioral data during training to deliver real-time feedback, adaptive scenarios, and readiness insights to improve warfighter performance, decision-making, and training efficiency.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop SWaP-optimized silicon carbide MOSFETs (10kV+ blocking, 5–10kA pulsed current, <30ns low-jitter turn-on) with advanced packaging for high-power microwave pulsed switching.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop and deploy safe, sustainable bridge lighting mitigation that reduces ambient light pollution, preserves night vision, and provides adjustable task lighting at select ship bridge workstations while complying with MIL-STD-1472H and shipboard environmental constraints.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop AI-driven behavioral nudging software that integrates with commercial wearable devices to improve sleep quality, reduce fatigue, and enhance human performance through personalized, adaptive interventions.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $240,000 (Estimated)
Description: Develop advanced digital human modeling tools using aircrew anthropometric data, posture datasets, and 3D scans to improve the design, fit, and evaluation of aviation equipment, clothing, and workspaces, enabling population-level accommodation modeling and better safety, performance, and readiness outcomes.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $250K (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop a non-invasive wearable that continuously monitors validated non-blood biomarkers to discretely detect viral vs. bacterial infection and deliver initial broad-spectrum treatment in austere environments, with data reporting to higher echelons of care.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $250K (Estimated)
Description: Funding to assess and adapt existing traumatic brain injury (TBI) detection tools and treatment approaches for military working dogs after battlefield injury—leveraging evidence from rodent/canine/large-animal research.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $250K (Estimated)
Description: Develop a shelf-stable (≥3 years), thermally robust (-9°C to 60°C) canine whole blood product or oxygen-carrying substitute for Military Working Dogs to treat traumatic hemorrhage from point-of-injury through definitive care, improving oxygen delivery and survival without canine testing.
Deadline: April 29, 2026 (Estimated)
Funding Award Size: $1.3 Million (Estimated)
Description: Funding to develop small-molecule antifungal compounds from existing libraries that show nanomolar activity against resistant fungi such as Candida auris, Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Mucorales while maintaining low human toxicity.
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: March 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Funding Award Size: $300K to $5 Million+
Description: Funding to prototype a handheld system that eliminates cold-chain logistics by stabilizing chemical and biological molecules at ambient conditions, integrating barcode-based lifecycle tracking, and automating sample collection for CBRN defense applications.
Deadline: March 2, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300K to $5 Million+
Description: Funding for research advancing chemical and biological defense technologies to counter weapons of mass destruction threats.
Deadline: March 6, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $1M to $2M
Description: Funding to develop FDA-cleared compact medical oxygen generation devices for expeditionary and aeromedical military environments under a Defense Health Agency OTA.
Deadline: Rolling Pre-Proposal Deadline.
Funding Award Size: $250,000 to $2,000,000+
Description: Apply for up to $5 million from The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Pipeline Program. Funding supports preclinical, IND-enabling, and early clinical development of Parkinson’s disease therapies.
Deadline: February 19, 2026.
Funding Award Size: Likely $10M+
Description: ARPA-H’s BoSS program funds breakthrough technologies that stabilize, manufacture, and distribute live cell-based therapies at ambient temperatures—eliminating the need for ultra-cold storage. Selected teams will build a scalable bioprocessing platform capable of producing thermally stable cells for biologics, gene and cell therapies, regenerative medicine, biosurveillance, blood products, and large-scale genetic testing.
Deadline: January 5th, 2027
Funding Award Size: $30m
Description: NIH SBIR Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award (PA-27-101) offers up to $30M for Phase II alumni with 100% matching funds. Full guide to eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply.