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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: TBD
Funding Award Size: $400k - $2.6m
Description: The FY26 Vision Research Program (VRP) pre-announcement from CDMRP supports research on military exposure-related visual injury, diagnosis, stabilization, treatment, and restoration. Full FOA and deadlines forthcoming on Grants.gov.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $600k - $4.5m
Description: The FY26 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) offers up to $4.5M for innovative cancer research supporting military health and mission readiness. Deadlines forthcoming in final FOAs.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $560k - $2.8m
Description: The FY26 CDMRP Melanoma Research Program (MRP) pre-announcement outlines upcoming funding opportunities including Idea Awards (up to $560,000), Scholar Awards (up to $770,000), Team Science Awards (up to $2.1M), Focused Program Awards – Rare Melanomas (up to $2.8M), and Survivorship Research Awards (up to $1.015M). Full FOAs and deadlines to be released on Grants.gov.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $250k - $2m
Description: The FY26 CDMRP Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) will offer awards up to $2M for MS clinical trials and research. Pre-announcement now live.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $350k - $2m
Description: The FY26 Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) pre-announcement is live. CDMRP TSC funding opportunities coming soon to Grants.gov.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $2m - $4m
Description: FY26 CDMRP Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) pre-announcement. DoD funding up to $4.8M for clinical, translational, and investigator-initiated research.
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: TBD
Funding Award Size: $800k - $3.25m
Description: The FY26 CDMRP Arthritis Research Program (ATRP) will fund clinical and translational arthritis research through the Department of Defense. Awards up to $3.25M are anticipated. Official deadlines will be released in the upcoming Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs).
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $840k - $2.8m
Description: CDMRP FY26 ALSRP funding offers up to $2.8M for ALS biomarkers, clinical trials, and therapeutic development. Pre-announcement live. Prepare now.
Deadline: TBD
Funding Award Size: $350k - $2.8m
Description: The DoD CDMRP FY26 Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) pre-announcement outlines upcoming funding for clinical trials, translational research, and early-career investigators. Deadlines to be released in the official FOAs.
Deadline: Submit ASAP while funds are available. Closes 5/31/29
Funding Award Size: Est. $500K to $5 million
Description: Funding for scientific and technical research that enhances homeland security capabilities across DHS operational environments and mission areas.
Deadline: Apply ASAP. Rolling Deadline until May 16, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500k - $2m
Description: Funding for innovative R&D solutions supporting FBI enterprise technology problem sets, including AI, cybersecurity, biometrics, counterintelligence, and data fabric.
Deadline: February 27, 2026
Funding Award Size: $500 - $50 Million
Description: Funding vehicle enabling AFRL to award unclassified science and technology research task orders across air, space, cyber, and cross-cutting defense domains.
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: Rolling Deadline Until 12/31/2030
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 to $5 million
Description: The U.S. Army Medical Capability Development Integration Directorate (MED CDID) is seeking innovative concepts, technologies, and solutions that enable tactical-level Army medical units (Corps and below) to clear the battlefield, maximize return to duty, and overcome contested medical logistics in the 2040 Future Operational Environment. Solutions may address evacuation, prolonged care, diagnostics, advanced therapeutics, predictive and autonomous logistics, and cross-cutting enablers like AI/ML, human-machine teaming, and medical modeling and simulation
Deadline: January 30, 2026
Funding Award Size: <$15 Million
Description: CIRM’s CLIN2 program funds the completion of interventional Phase 1, 2, and 3 clinical trials for stem cell–based and genetic therapies targeting serious unmet medical needs. Funding supports clinical operations, manufacturing, regulatory work, patient outreach, mechanism and potency studies, access and affordability planning, and data-sharing infrastructure.
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: Rolling basis until March 5, 2029.
Funding Award Size: Typically varies by project scope; proposers should request only what is necessary to reach a meaningful technical milestone—often $2 million or more for high-impact efforts.
Description: Funding for revolutionary solutions that expand equitable access, affordability, and rapid deployment of health innovations across the U.S. healthcare landscape. The SSO ISO supports scalable technologies that enhance distribution, biomanufacturing, and delivery systems to reach every patient efficiently and affordably.
Deadline: Rolling basis until March 5, 2029.
Funding Award Size: Typically varies by project scope; proposers should request only what is necessary to reach a meaningful technical milestone—often $2 million or more for high-impact efforts.
Description: Funding for transformative health system innovations that strengthen the resilience, adaptability, and interoperability of U.S. healthcare. The RSO ISO supports breakthrough solutions that enhance system robustness, improve efficiency, and safeguard access to care during disruptions.
Deadline: Rolling basis until March 5, 2029.
Funding Award Size: Typically varies by project scope; proposers should request only what is necessary to reach a meaningful technical milestone—often $2 million or more for high-impact efforts.
Description: Funding for transformative, prevention-focused innovations that extend health span and avert disease before it occurs. The PHO ISO supports bold solutions in early detection, behavior change, and system-level redesign to build a proactive, resilient, and equitable health future.
Deadline: Rolling basis until March 5, 2029.
Funding Award Size: Typically varies by project scope; proposers should request only what is necessary to reach a meaningful technical milestone—often $2 million or more for high-impact efforts.
Description: Funding for revolutionary, disease-agnostic health innovations that remove scientific and technological barriers to next-generation healthcare. The HSF ISO supports cutting-edge tools, technologies, and platforms with the potential for real-world translational impact.
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.
Deadline: September 30, 2026.
Funding Award Size: $2 million+
Description: Funding for transformative biology-enabled capabilities for national security.
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: 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: Nondilutive funding to advance pre-clinical and early clinical Parkinson’s disease therapeutics with strong translational rationale and commercialization potential.
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: TBD
Funding Award Size: $400k - $1.2m
Description: Apply for FY26 CDMRP Hearing Restoration Research Program (HRRP) funding. Focused Research Awards up to $1.2M for hearing loss research.forthcoming on Grants.gov.