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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: September 30, 2026.
Funding Award Size: $2 million+
Description: Funding for transformative biology-enabled capabilities for national security.
Deadline: January 5, 2026; April 5, 2026; September 5, 2026
Funding Award Size: <$2.1 Million
Description: Funding for research and development toward a commercially viable product or service aligned with the missions of NIH, CDC, or FDA.
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: 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: November 14, 2025
Funding Award Size: $2.5 Million
Description: Funds exploratory, high-risk/high-reward, foundational research led by two interdisciplinary, California-based investigators. Projects must address key knowledge gaps or bottlenecks in stem cell biology, genetic research, or regenerative medicine, with human stem cells or genetic research at the core of the hypothesis.
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: 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: January 26, 2026
Funding Award Size: $2M+
Description: The Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program funds development of autonomous robotic surgery technologies in two major areas: (1) fully autonomous endovascular robotic systems for procedures like thrombectomy and embolization, and (2) untethered, autonomous interventional microbots that can diagnose and treat disease with minimally invasive access.
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 15-19, 2025.
Funding Award Size: $1 Million to $5 Million (Estimate)
Description: ARPA-H’s Making Obstetrics Care Smart (MOCS) program will fund teams to build new placenta diagnostics and noninvasive, wireless, AI-enabled fetal monitoring technologies that can predict fetal oxygen risk and guide safer interventions during labor, with the goal of dramatically reducing maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in the U.S.
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: December 4, 2025
Funding Award Size: Unspecified (Est: $1M to $5M)
Description: Funding for innovative signal processing algorithms and payload designs that enable continuous detection and tracking of faint objects in cislunar space. The goal is to advance real-time, onboard space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities using commercial or quasi-COTS sensors and processors positioned at the Sun-Earth L1 point (SEL1) or in beyond-GEO orbits.
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Funding Award Size: $20 Million+
Description: Seeks commercial solutions to prototype and demonstrate responsive, adaptive, and scalable production methods—including digital design, AI-enabled software, 3D printing, CNC, automated molding, and software-defined manufacturing—to strengthen and expand the U.S. domestic space supply chain. The goal is to achieve on-demand production of space systems and components at scale (hundreds per month, thousands per year), enabling a resilient, agile, and commercially viable industrial base capable of supporting defense and dual-use space missions.
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: March 13, 2026
Funding Award Size: ~$300K
Description: : Funding for small businesses developing innovative technologies that address social needs influencing substance use disorders (SUD), such as housing, mental health, food insecurity, transportation, and safety.
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.