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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: June 2, 2026
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 million
Description: Funding for revolutionary basic or applied research that advances science, devices, or systems for national security applications.
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: 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: Rolling Deadline Until 11/1/26
Funding Award Size: Est. $2 million
Description: DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) is soliciting revolutionary research in information and computational technologies to provide decisive advantage for U.S. national security. Priority thrusts include: Transformative AI; resilient, adaptable, and secure software and complex systems; offensive and defensive cyber security and privacy; and fighting in the information domain. Proposals must go beyond incremental improvements to current state of the art.
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: September 29, 2030
Funding Award Size: $10 million to $50 million
Description: Funding to develop cyber operations prototypes that can transition into operational DoD platforms to maintain U.S. superiority in the cyber domain.
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: 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 - Apply ASAP before funds are gone.
Funding Award Size: $10 Million or more.
Description: Funding for research, prototyping, and commercialization projects that advance U.S. microelectronics, including work tied to AI, quantum, biotechnology/biomanufacturing, commercialization of innovation, and standards.
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: 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: White Paper Close Date: January 20, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300K-$1.5M
Description: The U.S. Space Force is soliciting innovative commercial solutions to enhance Space Domain Awareness (SDA) through advanced software, data analytics, modeling, and R&D-focused prototyping. This CSO enables rapid acquisition of commercial technologies that improve detection, characterization, prediction, and analysis of activities in the space domain.
Deadline: January 16,, 2026.
Funding Award Size: Likely $5M to $10M+
Description: The MUST-III program funds R&D projects that modernize the Department of Defense clothing and individual equipment (CIE) supply chain—advancing digital manufacturing, supply chain resilience, and innovation in textile technologies to support rapid, scalable, and cost-effective military sustainment.
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: December 11, 2025
Funding Award Size: $1-$5 Million
Description: Space Systems Command’s Kronos Program seeks innovative, commercial prototype solutions that enhance Space Force command and control (C2) across cloud-native infrastructure, mission applications, AI/ML, data integration/visualization, and zero-trust cybersecurity. Current AOIs include Operational C2, Battle Management, and Space Intelligence.
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.