Active Government Funding Opportunities

ERDC's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory seeks innovative solutions to enhance infrastructure and operational engineering capabilities. This broad solicitation welcomes existing technologies, new procedures, or novel approaches that aren't currently deployed to strengthen mission effectiveness.

CRREL seeks innovative solutions for cold and complex region challenges facing warfighters, including existing technologies not yet deployed. Solutions should enhance or streamline mission capabilities in extreme environment operations.

ERDC seeks innovative geospatial technologies to support military operations and warfighter capabilities. This broadly-scoped Commercial Solutions Opening invites novel approaches across multiple geospatial research areas.

ERDC seeks innovative research solutions across 30+ engineering domains including hydraulics, coastal engineering, geotechnical systems, and environmental processes. The BAA invites proposals to advance military infrastructure, environmental resilience, and operational capabilities.

NSF is building an open-access network of university research facilities for quantum and nanotechnology innovation. The program funds Sites with advanced fabrication and characterization capabilities to accelerate breakthroughs in quantum technologies, semiconductors, AI, and manufacturing.

Assemble interdisciplinary research teams to tackle transformative energy science challenges through integrated experiments, theory, computation, and AI/ML. EFRCs accelerate breakthroughs in materials, chemistry, geosciences, and biosciences beyond what individual researchers can achieve.

DOE seeks cross-cutting accelerator science and technology R&D to advance particle physics capabilities and benefit U.S. government agencies and industry. Focus includes accelerator development and domestic supplier advancement supporting broader scientific research missions.

FAIIA advances U.S. AI innovation and international adoption by removing regulatory barriers and countering China's technological influence globally. The program supports competitive AI solutions, strengthens partnerships, and counters false narratives about U.S. AI accessibility.

Accelerate ocean and coastal observing technologies from research into operational use. This program funds system integration, testing, and validation of sensors, data management tools, and platforms to improve environmental monitoring and forecasting capabilities.

NOAA seeks proposals to establish an Ocean and Coastal Mapping Center that advances integration of mapping technologies and hydrographic services. This hub will develop capabilities to improve coastal zone understanding and support navigation safety, disaster response, and marine resource management.

Fund alumni-led community projects outside the U.S. that address global challenges while celebrating America's 250th anniversary. Projects must align with U.S. foreign policy goals and involve teams of at least two alumni from government exchange programs.

U.S. Embassy Bratislava seeks alumni-led project proposals advancing freedom of speech, religious liberty, innovation, entrepreneurship, or American excellence in Slovakia. Teams of at least two exchange program alumni can compete for funding to implement community-focused initiatives aligned with U.S. policy objectives.

Payment Integrity Validation and Oversight Tool (PIVOT) market research for VA fraud detection. Seeks SaaS solution leveraging advanced analytics and AI/ML for healthcare claims validation and improper payment prevention.

Request for Information on facilities technology management solutions for FBI building systems, seeking industry feedback on smart building technologies and facility operations software.

Endless Forge Manufacturing as a Service platform development: adaptive, regionalized production networks enabling surge capacity and rapid weapon system scaling through platform-agnostic approaches.

Defense Logistics Agency strategic materials broad agency announcement seeking innovative solutions for rapid acquisition, supply chain management, and procurement support through 2029.

Research and development for innovative training simulation technologies, behavioral engineering, and software models to enhance Naval training systems effectiveness and reduce costs.

Commercial Solutions Opening for innovative testing solutions to meet Air Force Test Center and associated partners' evolving test capabilities and agile methodology needs through calls-based procurement.

Air Force Research Laboratory Functional Materials open BAA soliciting white papers and proposals for materials discovery, scientific research, and technology development in functional materials.

DARPA SMASH Program seeks innovative materials processing technologies for scalable element separation across the periodic table. Research aims to enable domestic resource independence through parallel processing and energy-efficient separation methods.

Advanced manufacturing and prototyping technologies enabling multi-modal agile production for contested logistics support. Seeks innovative concepts and materials to enhance manufacturing resilience and rapid deployment.

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 grant supports fundamental research in precision measurement, physics law validation, and determination of physical constants. It addresses emerging scientific opportunities that advance our understanding of basic physics principles.

The Sea Grant Knausz Marine Policy Fellowship trains graduate students in coastal marine policy and governance to address ocean and Great Lakes challenges. Fellows gain practical experience while solving real problems in coastal communities through university-based research partnerships.

Support early-career scientists across seven DOE Office of Science research areas—from advanced computing and fusion energy to high energy physics and isotope production. This program accelerates individual research careers in fundamental science by funding promising scientists at critical career development stages.