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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: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV010, polycatenated architected materials for conformable Soldier protection. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV009, expeditionary solar refinery making methanol from water and air. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV008, bio-inspired UUV teams exploiting schooling hydrodynamics. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV007, scalable roll-to-roll processing of large area oriented 2D polymer and COF films. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV006, room temperature THz and infrared sensors from oxychalcogenide films. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV005, ultrafast nonvolatile memory from sliding ferroelectricity in moire van der Waals homostructures. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $250k
Description: Complete guide to OSW Basic Research STTR Phase I topic OSW26TZ06-NV004, telecom band geometric amplifier using Berry phase. Up to $250,000 over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1.5m
Description: Complete guide to NGA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic OSW26BZ06-DV034, vision language models for SAR target search and classification from SICD. Up to $1.5M over 24 months. TS/SCI required. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1.5m
Description: Complete guide to NGA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic OSW26BZ06-DV033, agentic AI based cognitive radar for GEOINT. Up to $1.5M over 24 months. TS/SCI required. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to OSW-FutureG SBIR Direct to Phase II topic OSW26BZ06-DV032, open-source private 5G for smart manufacturing. Up to $2,153,927 over 18 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to OSW-FutureG SBIR Direct to Phase II topic OSW26BZ06-DV031, open-source private 5G for stadiums and large venues with 6G ISAC path. Up to $2,153,927 over 18 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to OSW-FutureG SBIR Phase I topic OSW26BZ06-NV028, 5G signature tracking mitigation via cyber deception. Up to $323,090 over 6 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to OSW-Reliance 21 SBIR Direct to Phase II topic OSW26BZ06-DV027, monolithic graphene-CMOS broadband UV to LWIR focal plane arrays. $2M over 24 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Complete guide to OSW-Reliance 21 SBIR Phase I topic OSW26BZ06-NV026, defect metrology for charge trapping in hydrogen-terminated diamond transistors. $314K over 6 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2.1m
Description: Complete guide to OSW-Reliance 21 SBIR topic OSW26BZ06-DV025, compact attritable passive radar. Phase I $314K over 12 months or Direct to Phase II $2.1M over 24 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Complete guide to OSW-Reliance 21 SBIR Phase I topic OSW26BZ06-NV024, engineered microstructures for IR-transparent composite ceramic apertures. $300K over 12 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA STTR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26TZ06-DV006, localizing and modeling freestream disturbances in hypersonic wind tunnels. $750K plus $1.25M option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA STTR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26TZ06-DV005, fuel-flexible spacecraft electric propulsion running on air, water, and chemical exhaust. $1M plus $1M option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA STTR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26TZ06-DV004, SHIELDER scalable hard-mask materials for extreme-aspect-ratio nanofabrication. $1.5M plus $450K option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26BZ06-DV029, ICU-in-a-Box autonomous extracorporeal multiple-organ support. $1.5M plus $500K option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26BZ06-DV028, TRIAGE-X autonomous chemical casualty triage and treatment. $1.5M plus $500K option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $750k
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26BZ06-DV027, CORPS casualty operations and resource prediction software. $750,000 award. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1.8m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR topic DPA26BZ06-DV026, influence benchmarks for AI systems using simulated markets. Phase I $300K or DP2 $1.8M. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR topic DPA26BZ06-DV025, noninvasive occult hemorrhage detection for combat medics. Phase I $250K or DP2 $1M plus option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2.1m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26BZ06-DV024, networked New World Screwworm detection and surveillance. $1.1M base plus $1M options. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1.2m
Description: Complete guide to DARPA SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DPA26BZ06-DV023, high-altitude airborne subsurface radar for critical minerals. $700K base plus $500K option. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Complete guide to DAF STTR Phase I topic DAF26TZ06-NV007, automated combat assessment at the edge. Up to $300,000 over 6 months, STTR partner required. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $300k
Description: Complete guide to DAF STTR Phase I topic DAF26TZ06-NV006, AI Performance Evaluation Tool for Air Force Test Center. Up to $300,000 over 6 months. Closes October 21, 2026.
Deadline: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2m
Description: Complete guide to Navy SBIR Direct to Phase II topic DON26BZ06-DV088, minimally invasive remote blood collection for free-ranging cetaceans. Up to $2M base plus option. Closes October 21, 2026.
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: October 21, 2026
Funding Award Size: $1.5m
Description: Complete guide to USSOCOM SBIR Direct to Phase II topic SOC26BZ06-DV006, RIPTIDE resilient photonic crosslinks for GPS-denied Group 3 UAS formations. Up to $1.5M over 18 months. Closes October 21, 2026.