Active Government Funding Opportunities

NSF seeks proposals to unlock hidden value in existing scientific datasets through AI-driven feature extraction, metadata generation, and automated analysis pipelines. Enable interdisciplinary discovery by harmonizing data for AI tools while addressing security, governance, and community contribution frameworks.

This fellowship program supports graduate students pursuing marine policy careers by providing mentorship and professional development in coastal resource management and ocean policy. It addresses the need for trained professionals to tackle complex challenges facing coastal communities through federal-state university partnerships.

This initiative catalyzes U.S.-Algerian partnerships in innovation, entrepreneurship, and AI to strengthen commercial ties and expand market access. It targets young professionals and students through programs connecting American institutions with Algerian counterparts on technology and business standards.

Develop cooperative programs with Türkiye to advance civil nuclear infrastructure safety, security, and nonproliferation standards. This addresses risks from non-U.S. reactor selection and supply chains through technical assistance and operational support.

Installation of custom protective shields for laboratory equipment at NIH Building 10. Facilities maintenance contract providing equipment protection installation services to prevent water damage in research facilities.

Fire sprinkler system inspection, maintenance, and repair services for VA San Diego Medical Center. Facilities maintenance contract ensuring NFPA and Joint Commission compliance for building fire safety systems.

Navy engineering contract with limited publicly available details. Full details require login to PIEE system; classified as other due to insufficient information for classification.

Air Force seeks sound testing services at Edwards AFB and Nellis AFB through a 5-year IDIQ contract for acoustic analysis and testing support.

Rapid Assured Access (R2A) program establishing multiple IDIQ contracts providing rapid, assured semiconductor foundry access and vendor onramps for DoD and defense contractors to mitigate microelectronics supply gaps.

This RFP seeks AI-enabled autonomy software that generates game-theoretically optimized courses of action for coordinating UAS swarms in contested, degraded environments. The system must scale to 200+ aircraft, incorporate adversarial reasoning, and support decentralized decision-making for maritime and air defense operations.

USSOCOM seeks innovative stand-off detection technology to identify concealed threats—explosives, weapons, radiological materials—through barriers without sampling or active emissions. The feasibility study targets miniaturized, field-deployable systems for SOF missions including maritime operations, route clearance, and counter-air protection in GPS-denied environments.

This RFP seeks foundation-model-based systems for collaborative target recognition across multi-domain unmanned platforms. The solution must enable cross-platform target disambiguation and sensor fusion to replace manual, error-prone coordination processes in degraded operational environments.

This RFP seeks a room-temperature photon-number-resolution sensor array capable of detecting multiple simultaneous photons at GHz rates with megapixel scalability. The technology addresses quantum imaging and environmental sensing applications requiring precise photon counting while processing extreme data rates without loss.

This RFP seeks development of affordable infrared lens technology using salt-based optical materials to reduce thermal camera costs for unmanned drone systems. The challenge is engineering moisture-resistant coatings for these naturally hygroscopic materials to enable field deployment while maintaining cost advantages over traditional military infrared optics.

This RFP seeks compact, high-speed nanophotonic spatial light modulators to enable advanced wavefront control for adaptive optics applications. Current technologies like liquid crystal and MEMS devices are limited by slow response times, hindering adoption of LiDAR, free-space communications, and quantum sensing systems.

This RFP seeks tunable metasurface devices that perform analog optical edge detection and image processing directly within thermal-imaging systems. The innovation reduces computational load and latency by shifting feature extraction from digital post-processing to the optical front-end using practical, scalable mid-wave infrared materials.

Adaptive AI-driven waveform design for radar systems that autonomously optimize transmit parameters to counter electronic attack and interference in contested environments. The solution uses deep reinforcement learning to enable real-time waveform adaptation on edge-computing hardware while maintaining strict power and size constraints.

This RFP seeks integrated quantum sensor components with minimal size, weight, and power requirements for vehicle and platform deployment. The effort aims to transition custom quantum sensing solutions toward standardized, commercially viable COTS components that reduce costs and expand dual-use market applications.

This RFP seeks development of an Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne interferometer spectrometer that simultaneously achieves large light-gathering capacity and ultra-high spectral resolution—solving a critical instrumentation gap for quantum communication systems, quantum sensing, and advanced remote sensing applications operating across 400–1600 nm wavelengths.

This RFP seeks a room-temperature photon-number-resolution imaging sensor array capable of detecting individual photons at gigahertz rates with minimal data loss. The technology will enable advanced quantum imaging and time-correlated photon measurements across megapixel arrays while maintaining scalability and real-time on-chip data compression.