Active Government Funding Opportunities

NSF seeks to transform open-source tools into secure, sustainable ecosystems addressing national challenges in AI, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure. Funding supports establishing governance structures, expanding promising projects, and enhancing safety and security across distributed developer communities.

This DoD funding supports clinical translation research to move spinal cord injury treatments from preliminary studies into larger clinical trials. It prioritizes removing barriers to clinical success and identifying effective diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation options.

Translate proven medical research into clinical products—drugs, devices, or decision-support tools—addressing military health needs. Support moves promising preclinical work through final development toward regulatory approval or clinical practice.

This DoD funding supports early-stage lupus research planning, pilot studies, and phase 0/1 clinical trials to generate preliminary data and demonstrate feasibility for future interventional studies. Awards must include patient advocates and address FY26 lupus research priorities.

AFOSR funds basic research across engineering, information science, and physical/biological sciences to develop innovative capabilities supporting Air Force warfighting and peacekeeping missions. The program partners with Air Force, university, and industry labs to transition research discoveries into operational technologies.

This DoD funding supports clinical trials testing new spinal cord injury treatments with potential to significantly improve patient outcomes. The program welcomes early-career researchers and requires community partnership to ensure research relevance.

NSF STEM K-12 funds fundamental and applied research to improve STEM teaching and learning across formal and informal educational settings throughout the human lifespan. The program advances understanding of how to make STEM education more effective and accessible.

NSF seeks innovative research proposals that build STEM research capacity in underrepresented jurisdictions through collaborative networks. Projects must advance emerging or interdisciplinary research areas while developing skilled workforce and ensuring long-term sustainability.

Supports investigator-led spinal cord injury research across basic to translational science phases. Aims to advance SCI patient care, treatment outcomes, and quality of life through competitive grants.

NSF supports early-career mathematical and physical sciences research at underrepresented institutions like R2 universities and minority-serving schools. This funding helps emerging faculty build competitive research programs and expand STEM workforce diversity.

NSF seeks rigorous research to understand research security threats, risks, and mitigation strategies across STEM fields. Projects should develop evidence-based insights, novel methodologies, and data-driven tools to inform U.S. research security policy and practice.

NSF supports faculty research at predominantly undergraduate institutions through RUI and ROA funding. These programs integrate research with undergraduate education, build institutional research capacity, and enable collaborations with research-intensive organizations across all scientific disciplines.

This research study investigates how international parental child abduction affects abducted children and left-behind parents across psychological, developmental, legal, and social domains. It aims to identify support gaps and recommend solutions to better serve impacted U.S. families and communities.

This DoD program funds clinical trials for multiple sclerosis treatments, from early-stage proof-of-concept to phase 2 studies. It supports testing of new drugs, biologics, devices, and emerging technologies to improve MS management.

US-German collaborative research in chemistry and chemical processes seeks innovative scientific discoveries through streamlined international partnerships. The program reduces barriers by enabling single-proposal submission with unified review while maintaining separate funding control.

NIST seeks research advancing measurement science, standards, and metrology across nanotechnology, AI, advanced manufacturing, and communications. Projects strengthen U.S. innovation competitiveness through collaborative R&D partnerships and scientific discovery.

This DoD funding supports rapid clinical trials testing new ALS treatments, from phase 1 through small phase 2 studies. Focus areas include biomarker-driven interventions and improved clinical care approaches for managing the disease.

The Army seeks data science innovations to advance prostate cancer research and treatment outcomes. This award supports novel analytical approaches and computational methods to improve military health and civilian medical care.

NSF supports STEM doctoral research programs at minority-serving institutions across AI, quantum computing, advanced materials, and clean energy. The initiative expands institutional research capacity and increases doctoral degree completion for underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

NSF seeks use-inspired research and translational activities that move scientific discoveries from the lab to real-world practice. Three tracks support researchers at different stages: exploring applications of existing research, maturing translational ideas, or scaling solutions through strategic partnerships with industry and other stakeholders.

Sustained funding for university-based materials research centers tackling fundamental science problems through multidisciplinary collaboration. MRSECs support infrastructure, industry partnerships, and a national network advancing materials discovery and education.

LSAMP funds alliances of colleges and universities to increase STEM degrees among underrepresented minorities through evidence-based strategies, from community college transfers to graduate research pathways, addressing the critical need to diversify the nation's STEM workforce.

NSF seeks small businesses to develop next-generation scientific instrumentation and experimental platforms that enable breakthrough discoveries. This pilot program funds innovative tools and AI-driven research infrastructure to advance the U.S. scientific enterprise.

This DoD program mentors early-career kidney cancer researchers through intensive virtual training, peer networking, and personalized mentorship. It aims to develop the next generation of cutting-edge kidney cancer researchers and accelerate discovery of new patient treatments.

Accelerate translational research in Duchenne muscular dystrophy toward clinical applications. DoD supports advanced preclinical and clinical studies with flexible funding levels and partnership options to bridge promising discoveries into therapies.