Active Government Funding Opportunities

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.

Space system survivability through proliferation strategies, commercial standards reuse, redundancies, and rapid reconstitution capabilities.

Space Domain Awareness enhancements through low-cost resilient ground-based SDA, space-based sensors, and optics for comprehensive space environment knowledge.

Battle Management C3 efficiency improvements through space data analytics, AI, and automation for large datasets and space operations.

Innovative approaches for exercises, tests, and training environments including ride share solutions, multi-domain innovations, and inter-satellite link technologies for small satellites.

Qualification of materials and processes for DOD Programs of Record. Requires validation and integration planning with existing defense acquisition programs.

AI-enabled autonomous control of space vehicles and payloads for coordinated mission effects. Develops algorithms for resource allocation, scheduling, and network orchestration in contested environments.

Army electronics and sensors R&D including MEMS devices, distributed sensors, and anti-tamper systems. Emphasis on hardened electronics, autonomous behaviors, and advanced sensing.

Army biometric technology research for detection, identification, and tracking. Advances fingerprint, face, iris, palm, voice, and DNA capture with portable, lightweight imaging platforms.

Army Digital Engineering research supporting the Digital Thread across product lifecycle. Focuses on CAD/software integration, semantic data exchange, ontologies, and API standards.

Navy RFI for modernizing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) correlator system using software-based capabilities and high-performance computing to enable near real-time operations and process higher data volumes.

Library system migration from Aleph ILS to modern Library Services Platform. Includes data migration, custom index replacement, and federated search functionality for federal databases.

Sources sought for scientific evidence evaluation and knowledge integration in translational toxicology. NIH seeking small business capabilities for evidence synthesis and AI-driven toxicology research support.

FAA ten-year research BAA covering aviation structural integrity, pavement assessment, fatigue testing, and advanced aerospace research topics across multiple technical areas.

Army aviation and missile R&D BAA seeking competitive research proposals for defense technology advancement across multiple technical focus areas.

Support state agencies in implementing conservation programs for endangered and threatened marine species under the Endangered Species Act. Funding covers management efforts, scientific research, and public education to aid species recovery.

ERDC broad agency announcement for R&D in hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, environmental science, remote sensing, materials science, and military infrastructure innovation across multiple laboratory centers.

Spaceport and launch assessment study providing technical services for partner nation satellite launch capability development, including facility design and mission assurance processes.

Navy requires annual software maintenance for CSI cloud sign-in license management and technical support services.

NASA SBIR Phase I appendix 26B second solicitation for small business Phase I R&D proposals addressing technical research topics in space and aeronautics domains.

NASA STTR Phase I appendix 26B soliciting small business technology transfer research and development proposals with academic/research institution partnerships.

NASA SBIR Phase I appendix 26A soliciting small business R&D proposals for Phase I innovation projects across nine technical research topics.

Idaho National Laboratory licensing for anisotropic additive manufacturing optimization technology creating material property databases for 3D printed parts design and prediction.