Active Government Funding Opportunities

CHEERS (Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining) Broad Agency Announcement Open Period 1 seeking medical technology and human enhancement R&D proposals.

Develop arctic-capable resilient infrastructure and expeditionary modular systems for extreme cold operations including facilities, utilities, and protective structures for personnel and aircraft.

Army energetics innovation research in explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics. Areas include modeling, synthesis methods, high energy density materials, and lifecycle advancement.

Army revolutionary armament design R&D including threat recognition, targeting, and remotely operated platforms. Focus on hypervelocity airframes, novel propulsion, morphing structures, and advanced materials.

Army fire control technology R&D including optics, electro-optics, position/navigation sensors, and quantum science. Spans target acquisition, tracking, and autonomous systems integration.

Air Force Research Laboratory seeks manufacturing technology R&D to discover new capabilities and efficiencies, transitioning innovations to factory and depot operations within high-impact defense domains.

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

Space Force Commercial Solutions Opening for Space Domain Awareness innovations including software engineering and data analytics. Multi-phase white paper and proposal process for small business set-aside.

Develop chemical forensics methods for attribution and analysis of chemical agents in defense operations.

Air Force CHEERS (Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining) open period solicitation under 10 U.S.C. 4023 for experimental research. Multi-award advanced research projects across multiple technical areas.

Multi-Spectrum Defensive Electronic Warfare (MSDEW) ARA develops threat warning and countermeasures sensors/systems for contested environments through design, simulation, and testing.

Naval Air Warfare Center Broad Agency Announcement for R&D in manned/unmanned air platforms, advanced sensors (EO/IR/RF/acoustic), AI/ML processing, and naval air capabilities.

NASA Ames Research Center soliciting partners for science investigations, research activities, and technology development aligned with NASA missions. Open call for space science, Earth sciences, and technology demonstrations.

Commercial Solutions Opening for air platform propulsion and blended wing body advanced aircraft development. Competitive innovation solicitation for next-generation airlift efficiency.

Air Force five-year closed BAA seeking R&D solutions for airbase systems including timber products, automated heavy machinery, and PFAS destruction technologies.

Los Alamos technology licensing for selective metal separation using tunable chemistry to replace complex solvent extraction for actinides, lanthanides, and rare earth elements.

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.

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

Army research identifying operational deficiencies and leveraging existing technology base through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Focus on innovative integration of evolving technologies for enhanced capabilities.

CBRNE defense R&D seeking innovative chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive capabilities through procurement contracts, cooperative agreements, and prototype OTA awards for Joint Warfighter dominance.

Air Force seeks innovative Next Generation Aircraft Protection technologies across four capability areas: system architecture, sensing, processing, and countermeasures with modular open architecture design.

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

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

NASA SBIR/STTR FY 2026-2027 BAA for small business R&D and technology transfer projects in Phase I and II with multiple release cycles.