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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:
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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.
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.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NCI, NIA, NIDA) highlights research on understudied PTMs and PTM crosstalk in cancer, aging, and addiction. 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) highlights research on quiescence, senescence, and cell death mechanisms in aging and cancer. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (ODS and partners) highlights human-relevant NAMs research for dietary supplement and nutrition science. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIA, NIAID, NIEHS, NIMH) highlights research on immune-brain interactions in Alzheimer's and dementia. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIMH and partners) highlights research on school-based mental health screening, interventions, and service delivery. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIAAA) highlights implementation science for AUD prevention and treatment in criminal justice settings. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIAAA, NCCIH, NIDA) highlights research on boosting engagement and retention in psychiatric and AUD 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) highlights research on indoor exposure detection, biomarkers, and mixture effects for exposome science. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements.
Deadline: September 5th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k - $2m
Description: NIH (NIA/NIDA) highlights research on RNA editing, splicing, and modification in aging and age-related disease. See funding fit, focus areas, and application routes via NIH Parent Announcements
Deadline: October 15th, 2026
Funding Award Size: $10m
Description: NASA's new AES program funds Earth-observation decision tools with $10M for FY27. See eligibility, deadlines, and dual-anonymous review rules for this Oct 15, 2026 deadline.
Deadline: Rolling Deadline
Funding Award Size: $500k - $5m
Description: Cornerstone OTA CIR CS-24-1801 funds DIB workforce development across Critical Minerals, Kinetics, Manufacturing & Microelectronics. Eligibility, deadlines, and requirements inside.
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: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Apply for up to $314,000 in MDA SBIR funding to develop GPS-denied event-based navigation for missile defense and space systems. Deadline: August 19, 2026.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: The United States currently faces an "unprecedented" military buildup by China and increasing air and missile threats that demand a robust deterrent. However, the current inventory of longrange strike weapons is dominated by high-cost, low-volume systems or aging strategic assets like the Minuteman III, which dates back to the 1960s. The lack of a cost-effective, ground-launched payload delivery system prevents the Joint Force from achieving producibility at scale, leaving the U.S. vulnerable in high-intensity, multi-domain environments where high-end munitions would be rapidly depleted. The objective of this topic is to facilitate innovative research on low-cost, rapidly manufacturable, payload delivery systems.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: This topic will explore optimizing the UH-60M interior to provide improved capability over the existing HH-60M in terms of survivability, functionality, and patient access by designing a modular Patient Handling System (PHS) that could be tailored to fit a multitude of aircraft.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Develop and integrate a distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that can collaboratively command and control a multi-agent Group 1 or Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) swarm to defend an area against a numerically superior enemy swarm.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Develop and integrate a distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that can collaboratively command and control a multi-agent Group 1 or Group 2 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) swarm to defend an area against a numerically superior enemy swarm.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Development and application of highly dispersible, survivable, and scalable kinetic defeat mechanisms capable of neutralizing Group 1-3 UAS threats.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: The objective of this SBIR is to develop integrated digital capabilities that will assist spaceport operations in enhancing mission readiness.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $175k
Description: The objective of this Phase I effort is to identify, assess, and demonstrate the feasibility of novel, non–missile-warning space and/or ground enabled sensing and analytic capabilities that can deliver rapid, commercially derived insights with meaningful operational utility.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $315k
Description: Provide specialized waveguides capable of high temperature, high power, low loss, robust, and agile transmission of radio frequency (RF) signals within a hypersonic vehicle.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $315k
Description: Develop an environmentally friendly processing method to produce a plant-based carbon fiber precursor for high-temperature applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $1.2m
Description: Develop and demonstrate a co-packaged temperature-hard (-269°C to +600°C) and radiation-tolerant NOR Flash memory system for extreme environment applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $1.5m
Description: The goal of this effort is to combine advanced machine learning (ML) methods that can be computationally efficient in structured data with large language models (LLM) that are general and can extract context from data. The aim is to derive powerful and efficient technology for interactive statistical analysis of large-scale data seen such as in enterprise or battlefield.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: To develop and demonstrate a predictive/forecasting model that leverages Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting using In-Context Learning from novel, multilingual, and multimodal data. The goal is to develop and test a capability that increases the forecasting timeline from days to weeks in advance of an event, while increasing forecasting precision to at least 90%.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a universal assessment framework capable of automating Control Validation Tests (CVT) across diverse operating environments (Cloud, On-Premise, and Air-Gapped/Tactical). The solution must ingest data from existing vulnerability scanners and automatically correlate technical findings to NIST SP 800-53 controls, reducing manual administrative overhead and allowing assessment teams to focus on mission-critical risk analysis.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Realize next-generation neuromorphic technology to enable continuous adaptation and self-optimization to maintain overmatch in Electronic Warfare (EW) and cyber-contested domains.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: To advance and adopt chip-scale photonic and quantum technologies for operation in the Missile Defense System.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: The application of Very Large Array (VLA) techniques to the utilization of existing transmission infrastructure.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop low-cost software defined circular-band (ring shape) antenna for near-omnidirectional missile to missile communication in high-speed endo-atmospheric and exo-atmospheric environments.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a process to radiation harden commercial microelectronics that were not originally designed to operate in radiation environments.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop and demonstrate advanced thermal battery technology that significantly reduces size and weight while extending operational life, enabling enhanced performance and mission capabilities for missile defense systems.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Design and develop an agile software defined radio (SDR) system capable of supporting multi-band communications with advanced frequency management for interceptor platforms.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop and demonstrate low-volatility, reduced-toxicity hypergolic fuels suitable for Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS) thrusters while maintaining critical performance metrics when paired with standard oxidizers.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: This open topic seeks to develop and implement advanced analytical techniques for processing and interpreting historical radiation data (space-based and simulated) to improve the accuracy and predictive capabilities of radiation models, particularly concerning sensor performance and spacecraft survivability.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop a reliable, lightweight ignition system for solid propellant propulsion systems that is capable of multiple ignitions.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $250k - $2m
Description: Develop innovative, transition-ready prototype solutions that leverage Department of War inventions made available through the T3CP Patent Holiday Initiative in the areas of Microelectronics, Advanced Materials, Energetics, Munitions, and Critical Minerals and supply-chain-enabling technologies.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: Develop one or more multicomponent prototypes realizing a commercially viable quantum-sensor-related component in an integrated module.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: To design, develop, and demonstrate a large étendue, high spectral resolution Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne (ASH) interferometer optimized for quantum sensing, quantum communication support, and dual-use remote sensing applications.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000+
Description: Demonstrate a Photon-Number-Resolution pixel array with high counting rates that remains scalable to megapixel size.
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $2,000,000
Description: The objective of this project is to develop a nanophotonic-enabled spatial light modulator array with modulation a few orders (>10X) faster than the state-of-the-art commercial technologies
Deadline: August 19th
Funding Award Size: $314k
Description: Develop an AI/ML-controlled radar waveform generator that dynamically designs a waveform, including adjustments to frequency, modulation, or code in real time to optimize performance under changing conditions and to evade jamming.
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.