Active Government Funding Opportunities

DOE is offering in-kind support vouchers to help states, tribes, and local governments streamline energy infrastructure siting and permitting processes. This accelerates commercialization of innovative energy technologies by reducing regulatory barriers.

DOE seeks companies with advanced energy technologies ready for commercialization or large-scale demonstration. Voucher-based in-kind support funds studies and analyses to accelerate market readiness and reduce commercial risk.

Space Development Agency seeks sources for PEREGRINE Sentry, a performance-enhanced real-time ground environment system for space domain awareness and satellite operations support.

Fund marine mammal rescue and stranding response efforts through grants supporting sick, injured, or entangled animal recovery, emergency response operations, and health data collection to advance understanding of marine mammal population trends.

This STTR seeks bio-inspired underwater vehicle teams that leverage schooling hydrodynamics to achieve superior efficiency, range, and stealth compared to conventional designs. Proposals should demonstrate untethered UUVs (1-5 meters) reaching 4+ meters/second while minimizing acoustic signatures and optimizing cost of transport.

This RFP seeks development of a geometric amplifier for telecom applications that leverages Berry phase modulation through fiber-coupled resonators. The approach offers potential advantages over conventional gain mechanisms through reduced complexity, size, and power consumption using RF modulation.

This RFP seeks cyber deception solutions to mitigate 5G digital signature tracking threats against military and government personnel using commercial mobile networks. The technology must protect against adversary surveillance by masking cellular metadata that reveals location, device identity, and operational patterns.

This RFP seeks an open-source 5G platform stack tailored for small-to-mid-size manufacturers facing connectivity challenges in automated production environments. Solutions must demonstrate cost-effective private 5G deployment, validated interoperability across vendors, and reliable performance for mobile robots and machine vision in metal-heavy industrial settings.

This RFP seeks open-source 5G/6G solutions for large venues facing connectivity challenges, dead zones, and vendor lock-in costs. Proposers should demonstrate how OCUDU and related open-source components improve network performance across real stadium deployments while benefiting the broader RAN development community.

The Navy seeks monolithic graphene-CMOS focal plane arrays that detect targets across ultraviolet to long-wave infrared wavelengths in low-light conditions. This technology would replace multiple incumbent detector systems, reducing size, weight, cost, and complexity while improving naval imaging capabilities for multi-domain operations.

This STTR seeks novel diagnostic systems and computational models to characterize freestream noise sources in hypersonic wind tunnels, particularly in regions inaccessible to conventional optical techniques. Deliverables will enable better understanding of noise generation upstream and improve ground-test facility performance for high-speed vehicle evaluation.

Sought: A fuel-flexible electric propulsion system for spacecraft that operates on multiple propellants—air, water, ammonia derivatives, and CO2 mixtures—using shared components. This addresses mission flexibility limitations and reduces costly development cycles by enabling a single system to serve diverse orbital environments and refueling architectures.

This STTR seeks innovative hard-mask materials that enable precise, high-aspect-ratio semiconductor fabrication for defense microsystems like 3D circuits and RF filters. Solutions should deliver superior etch resistance and minimal line-edge roughness while addressing current masks' stress, degradation, and pattern-distortion limitations.

This SBIR seeks an autonomous "ICU-in-a-Box" platform integrating extracorporeal membrane oxygenation with multi-organ support capabilities to provide sustained resuscitative care for combat casualties in austere environments where evacuation delays extend beyond initial trauma phases. The system would automate critical functions including oxygenation, cardiovascular stabilization, and renal support to address preventable deaths from severe hemorrhage and subsequent organ failure.

DARPA seeks autonomous systems capable of detecting casualties and chemical toxidromes in contaminated mass casualty environments where human responders face hazardous conditions. The technology must locate injuries, recommend triage priorities, and deliver initial treatments to improve survival rates when rapid medical response is critical.

CORPS seeks software that predicts casualty streams and optimizes medical response decisions in austere, communications-limited environments. The solution must evaluate response options against tactical constraints using sparse data, while integrating with both DoD and civilian infrastructure.

This RFP seeks a simulated market testbed to evaluate behavioral tendencies in AI systems used by warfighters. The economic framework will detect hidden biases, deceptive strategies, and cognitive impacts that may impair decision-making without requiring direct model access.

This RFP seeks a noninvasive detection system combining advanced sensing and AI to help combat medics rapidly identify and monitor life-threatening internal bleeding in austere field environments. The solution must pinpoint hemorrhage location and bleeding rate to enable timely triage and evacuation decisions when surgical care is unavailable.

This RFP seeks an autonomous, networked detection system using machine learning and on-board sensors to identify New World Screwworm in real-time across remote border regions. The system addresses current manual trap limitations by enabling persistent surveillance and rapid threat detection without laboratory diagnostics.

This RFP seeks an advanced airborne subsurface radar system operable from high-altitude aircraft to map mineral deposits across larger areas faster. The system must solve extreme power-scaling challenges while remaining self-contained, modular, and electromagnetically compatible with host aircraft.

This RFP seeks development of a minimally invasive remote blood collection device for free-ranging cetaceans to enable health monitoring and environmental surveillance. The prototype will use suction-cup deployment methods to collect capillary blood samples from Navy dolphins and wild populations, improving mission readiness and environmental compliance assessments.

This RFP seeks advanced signal processing technology to protect GPS systems from jamming and spoofing threats. The solution combines machine learning and stochastic resonance principles to enhance weak GPS signals while filtering adversarial interference for military and commercial operations.

This RFP seeks compact, low-noise mode-locked semiconductor lasers operating at 6-12 GHz with picosecond pulses and 50+ mW power. The technology bridges optical and microwave domains for photonics applications, addressing the current lack of commercially available stabilized lasers in this performance range.

Army Mentor-Protégé Program BAA incentivizes large contractors to develop small business capabilities through technical and business expertise partnerships to strengthen the Defense Industrial Base.

The DoW MURI program funds high-risk, multidisciplinary basic research aimed at breakthrough discoveries that have never been achieved before. It connects university researchers with military needs to develop revolutionary technologies and scientific advances.