Department of Defense

This DoD funding supports early-stage rare cancer research ideas with potential for high-impact discoveries. The program welcomes exploratory approaches and accepts preliminary data from related disease studies to advance novel investigation pathways.

The Army seeks orthopaedic clinical research to advance musculoskeletal injury treatment and recovery for military personnel. This award funds innovative studies addressing combat-related and service-connected orthopaedic conditions.

This DOD program funds translational trauma care research that moves promising medical technologies from concept toward real-world solutions. Projects must demonstrate preliminary data and advance casualty survivability and point-of-injury care.

The Army seeks manufacturers for Primer Feed Mechanism (PFM) assemblies supporting the M777A2 155mm Howitzer. This single-award, five-year IDIQ contract targets small businesses to produce ammunition feeding components for domestic and foreign military customers.

This Army Medical Research funding supports translational research addressing health impacts from toxic exposures on military personnel. Projects bridge discovery science to clinical solutions for affected service members and veterans.

This Army funding opportunity supports investigator-initiated research into toxic exposures affecting military personnel, seeking novel scientific studies to understand health impacts and inform prevention strategies.

This award supports clinical trials investigating health outcomes and treatments for service members exposed to toxic substances during military operations. The research aims to establish evidence-based interventions and improve medical care for affected veterans.

The Air Force seeks remanufactured E-3 AI gearbox assemblies through a 5-year fixed-price contract. This procurement supports ongoing maintenance and replacement of critical airborne early warning aircraft components.

Maintenance dredging project in Pass-a-Grille Pass, Florida, involving channel excavation and beach placement with environmental monitoring and water quality controls to maintain navigable waterway access.

The Air Force seeks advanced reserve power source technologies for weapon systems that maintain performance over 20+ years of storage without maintenance while delivering high specific energy (40-100 Wh/kg) and power density (2.5-5+ kW/kg). Solutions must rapidly activate within 600 milliseconds, operate reliably for 5+ minutes, withstand extreme environments, and address safety limitations of current battery technologies.

ONR seeks low-cost heads-up display solutions for drone pilots and forward observers, enabling real-time situational awareness in combat operations. Proposals should demonstrate existing hardware integrating displays with FPV equipment or native tracking capabilities using onboard sensors.

This SBIR Phase II solicitation seeks an automated software platform that ingests Technical Data Packages (3D CAD, drawings, BOMs) to autonomously generate collision-free robotic inspection trajectories, eliminating manual programming. The solution targets aerospace quality control bottlenecks by compressing setup timelines from days to hours for agile manufacturing environments.

The Air Force seeks a non-destructive launching system for high-precision long rod projectile delivery to improve Live Fire Test and Evaluation data fidelity. This capability enables reliable flight control and targeting accuracy, reducing acquisition risk and supporting vulnerability assessments for aircraft survivability development.

This RFP seeks a networked telemetry signal synchronization system that simultaneously transmits correlated test signals to multiple ground stations. It solves the inability to pre-flight test integrated telemetry infrastructure end-to-end, enabling validation of receive sites, networks, and best-source selection systems before live missions.

The Navy seeks improved fire-resistant joiner bulkheads for naval vessels that contain compartment fires while meeting strict weight, cost, and dimensional constraints. Solutions must leverage advanced materials like intumescent coatings or high-performance fibers while passing rigorous fire, shock, and toxicity certification standards.

FOCISAUS seeks prototype solutions for sharing and fusing sensor data across multiple uncrewed aircraft to improve situational awareness and reduce blind spots. The technology must handle bandwidth constraints, process data in real-time, and deliver actionable perception outputs for autonomous systems or operators.

This contract seeks a modern, reusable replacement for discontinued PF300 flash bulbs used in high-speed video systems. The new illumination system must match or exceed original performance while leveraging existing technology to reduce costs and obsolescence risks.

This RFP seeks development of a computationally efficient engineering model to predict fluid jet formation from shaped-charge liners. The reduced-order model will enable faster warhead design iteration by accurately forecasting spurt characteristics while avoiding expensive hydrocode simulations.

The Air Force is seeking compact, lightweight 2-micron fiber amplifiers that match the size and weight of existing 1-micron systems while maintaining kilowatt-class power. This advancement enables eye-safer directed energy capabilities and advanced sensing for defense applications.

This RFP seeks mature counter-UAS technologies addressing detection, identification, and defeat of Group 1-2 unmanned aerial systems threatening tactical forces and infrastructure. Solutions must operate in denied environments without permanent infrastructure, prioritizing passive sensing, non-radiating approaches, and on-platform processing.

This SBIR seeks scaled production of AFRL-patented UHTC preceramic polymers to support defense composite manufacturing. The initiative addresses supply chain needs by making ultra-high temperature ceramic materials available at production scale and competitive pricing for defense acquisition programs.

This RFP seeks development of a luminescence-based measurement technique to simultaneously capture pressure and temperature data in non-oxygen hypersonic wind tunnels. Current pressure-sensitive paint technology requires oxygen in the flow, limiting advanced facilities like nitrogen-based tunnels to discrete measurements.

This Direct to Phase II opportunity seeks proven cyber defense technology for fog and edge computing devices that can autonomously detect and respond to attacks. Proposals must demonstrate a working prototype and scalable architecture capable of preventing or mitigating cyber threats across distributed edge-node environments.

This RFP seeks an AI-powered computer vision system that automatically analyzes aerial refueling video to provide objective pilot performance feedback, replacing subjective instructor assessments. The solution will generate real-time debrief products with performance metrics and visualizations to improve training effectiveness and flight safety across Air Force and Navy aviation communities.

This RFP seeks an adaptive single-arm robotic workcell to automate wire harness routing and connector installation for unmanned aerial systems and munitions production. The solution addresses a critical manufacturing bottleneck by replacing manual assembly with sensor-driven automation capable of handling flexible materials with sub-millimeter precision and rapid retaskability between product designs.