Active Government Funding Opportunities

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.

Multidisciplinary university research teams tackle complex, defense-relevant challenges at the intersection of multiple sciences. MURI funds high-impact basic research to develop cutting-edge capabilities and cultivate a defense-aware scientific workforce.

This MURI program funds multidisciplinary university research teams addressing critical DoD scientific challenges. It supports cutting-edge R&D across multiple fields to develop innovative solutions for defense capabilities and national security.

NASA seeks research on Earth solutions across agriculture, disaster resilience, water resources, and infrastructure using satellite data and applications. This consolidated program addresses critical environmental and societal challenges through space-based science and technology.

NASA seeks atmospheric science research proposals advancing Earth's atmosphere understanding through innovative observational and modeling studies. This competitive program supports fundamental and applied research addressing climate, weather, and air quality challenges.

NASA solicits proposals for planetary science enabling facilities that support research infrastructure and capabilities. This program funds facility development to advance planetary exploration and scientific discovery through enhanced instrumentation and equipment.

NASA seeks theoretical and computational astrophysics research through networked collaborations to advance modeling and simulation capabilities. This program funds fundamental scientific research networks tackling complex astrophysical challenges through innovative computational approaches.

NASA seeks research proposals to advance cryosphere science and monitoring through Earth observation. This program funds competitive studies addressing ice sheet dynamics, glaciers, permafrost, and snow systems to improve climate understanding.

NASA seeks research proposals on hydrosphere science to advance understanding of Earth's water systems and their interactions with climate. This competitive grant program supports innovative studies addressing critical water cycle challenges through dual anonymous peer review.

Navy procurement requirement accessible via PIEE system. Detailed information requires login to defense acquisition portal for full specification and submission details.

NSF X-Labs Initiative soliciting innovative early-stage platform technologies for AI systems operating in physical environments including robotics, embodied systems, human-robot interfaces, advanced sensing, and cyber-physical systems.

Development and demonstration of expendable pyrophoric countermeasures for aircraft defense against infrared missile threats, supporting Joint Services protection across Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force.