Active Government Funding Opportunities

This funding supports a national research center studying parents with disabilities, focusing on rehabilitation research and training to improve outcomes and family well-being. The center addresses gaps in understanding disability support systems and develops evidence-based interventions for this underserved population.

Research, Development, Test & Evaluation support for Navy's Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering. Seeks contractors for materials science and corrosion mitigation R&D.

NASA Lunar Enabling Infrastructure Accelerator (LEIA) Broad Agency Announcement seeking innovative solutions for lunar infrastructure development and operations under NextSTEP-3 program.

EPA Small Business Innovation Research Phase I solicitation seeking novel environmental technology solutions. Supports innovative research and development by small businesses in environmental sectors.

NOAA seeks research teams to advance natural infrastructure for coastal flood protection through public-private partnerships, innovative insurance products, and sediment management. Projects will develop practical solutions that strengthen state and local flood preparedness capacity.

NSF Ocean Education supports ocean research integration through undergraduate internships (REU) and early-career faculty programs combining research with education. Funding enables universities and marine labs to train the next generation of ocean scientists.

NAVAIR seeks an integrated, modular framework called ANVIL that unifies fragmented development efforts across systems engineering, digital engineering, security, and test environments. The solution must flex across classification levels and multiple mission priorities to accelerate weapon systems from concept to fielding.

NAWCAD seeks innovative workforce development solutions that accelerate technology adoption in naval aviation. The challenge addresses the gap between rapid technological change and organizational readiness, requiring novel methods to help employees integrate new capabilities into mission workflows.

Develop innovative insecticides, personal protective technologies, and pesticide application equipment to protect deployed military personnel from disease-carrying arthropods like mosquitoes, ticks, and emerging threats. Research focuses on new formulations, enhanced protection modalities, and improved vector control sustainability.

NASA GSFC seeks information on Ground Systems and Mission Operations (GSMO-4) support for science and Earth science missions including JWST, EOS, and GOES, encompassing systems engineering, launch operations, flight dynamics, and cloud infrastructure management.

DOE seeks input on foundational biotechnology research challenges to advance predictive biosystems design, synthetic biology, and bio-based fuel/chemical production capabilities.

DOE is offering vouchers to energy companies for performance validation, modeling, and certification support to accelerate commercialization of advanced energy technologies. Recipients gain access to testing, digital twin development, and failure-mode analysis to increase market readiness.

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.