Air Force

Aircraft integration technologies R&D covering physical, electrical, and logical interfaces for munitions and weapons system integration.

Advanced missile flight control actuator R&D including miniaturized high-speed actuation, articulating radomes, and adaptive airframe control technologies.

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement seeking R&D in 13 munitions research areas including guidance, propulsion, warheads, fuzing, and AI/autonomy for advanced weapons systems.

Development of innovative aircraft integration technologies addressing physical, electrical, and logical interfaces. Focus on integration solutions for air dominance weapon systems and combat platforms.

Investigation of missile power electronics and thermal management for air-to-air systems. Research emphasizes miniaturization of power conversion, advanced battery technologies, and compact guidance electronics.

Development of Engagement Management systems for contested environments to maximize aircraft survivability. Systems integrate with aircraft platforms for autonomous countermeasure response and keep-out zone management.

Development of advanced warhead technologies including blast effects, reactive materials, and novel target defeat mechanisms. Research focuses on robust, affordable air-launched munitions meeting insensitive munitions requirements.

Munitions carriage and release technology R&D for high-density weapon bay integration with multi-missile carrying capacity and advanced communications.

Find-Fix-Target-Track and datalink technology R&D for air-to-air threat detection, discrimination, and missile swarm communication systems.

Conventional and conceptual warhead technology R&D for optimized target defeat while meeting insensitive munitions requirements.

Space Force Commercial Solutions Opening for Space Domain Awareness innovations including software engineering and data analytics. Multi-phase white paper and proposal process for small business set-aside.

Combat identification and automated target recognition technology development spanning TRL 3-7, focusing on multi-sensor exploitation and fusion for air, ground, and surface target identification.

Air Force STAR-FISH program supports fast-tracked R&D and rapid prototyping of innovative software and hardware solutions for space technology challenges.

Air Force Space Technology Advanced Research (STAR) program funds innovative space technology R&D and prototype development through an open research announcement.

Enterprise broad agency announcement defining AFRL areas of interest for innovative technologies and services across full spectrum of Air Force research laboratory needs.

Air Force SPEED Commercial Solutions Opening with multiple closed and open areas of interest including RF spectrum monitoring, housing management, and data science solutions.

Air Force AFIMSC SPEED CSO with multiple closed/open areas including RF spectrum monitoring, BIM data, and data science capabilities for facilities and operations optimization.

Space payload hosting technologies for RF/optical communications terminals with reduced integration time, cost, and complexity.

High-rate mesh backbone networks with fast data transfer, minimized latency, optimized routing, and dynamic adaptation for contested environments.

Multi-level security operations development for contested environments with cross-domain solutions, innovative security architectures, and formal verification methods.

RF communication payload maturation including TT&C protocols, constellation commanding, waveform repurposing, and software-based transmission systems.

Space hardware advancements for LINK-182 user radios, multi-waveform capabilities, SGLS, and secure contested communications with LPI/LPD connectivity.

Optical inter-satellite link advancements including terminal standardization, low SWaP-C designs, high data rates, and distributed ground station networks.

Enterprise hybrid architecture for space-to-space communications enabling disparate systems integration using COTS and commercial standards.

Novel communication techniques for contested environments including high data rate, interoperability, AI/ML, quantum communications, and advanced antennas.