Active Government Funding Opportunities

Army advanced materials research for weapons and munitions including alloys, composites, ceramics, and additively manufactured materials. Focus on weight reduction and hypersonic applications.

Research target defeat technology applications for counter-CBRNE and defensive operations.

Army AI assurance research including algorithms, deep learning robustness, and adversarial attack mitigation. Focuses on model interpretability, data certification, and AI system acceptance standards.

Plasma physics and chemistry investigation across collisional to magnetized states. Research on plasma-catalysis interactions and energetic materials applications.

Develop advanced microsensor technologies for CBRNE detection and defense applications with enhanced sensitivity and miniaturization.

Develop decontamination technologies and methods for rapid removal of CBRNE agents from personnel, equipment, and environments.

Research in Find-Fix-Target-Track and datalink technologies for threat detection and air-to-air missile coordination. Development includes conformal antennas, alternative waveforms, and swarming applications.

Development of Engagement Management systems for contested environments to maximize aircraft survivability. Systems integrate with aircraft platforms for autonomous countermeasure response and keep-out zone management.

Development of advanced warhead technologies including blast effects, reactive materials, and novel target defeat mechanisms. Research focuses on robust, affordable air-launched munitions meeting insensitive munitions requirements.

Advanced missile flight control actuator R&D including miniaturized high-speed actuation, articulating radomes, and adaptive airframe control technologies.

Munitions carriage and release technology R&D for high-density weapon bay integration with multi-missile carrying capacity and advanced communications.

Find-Fix-Target-Track and datalink technology R&D for air-to-air threat detection, discrimination, and missile swarm communication systems.

Engagement management system R&D for autonomous decision-making in contested environments with threat response optimization and aircrew collaboration.

Conventional and conceptual warhead technology R&D for optimized target defeat while meeting insensitive munitions requirements.

Biotechnology innovation in detection and decontamination of chemical-biological agents using enzymatic systems, microbial remediation, and self-decontaminating coatings.

Develop novel timber construction techniques for expeditionary and high-threat environments including cold-weather shelters, blast-resistant CLT panels, and protective structural innovations.

Advanced missile flight control actuator R&D including miniaturized systems, high-speed actuation, and articulating airframe technologies.

Develop advanced emergency response and firefighting technologies for airbases, including composite material extinguishment, hazard prediction modeling, and protective equipment innovations.

Airbase energy and utility systems RDT&E including shelter efficiency, renewable power generation, storage, management, and waste minimization technologies.

Space hardware advancements for LINK-182 user radios, multi-waveform capabilities, SGLS, and secure contested communications with LPI/LPD connectivity.

Cyber defense enhancements leveraging AI for threat detection, secure software development, zero trust architectures, and supply chain security.

Enterprise hybrid architecture for space-to-space communications enabling disparate systems integration using COTS and commercial standards.

Counterspace capabilities R&D including defensive/offensive technologies, cyber capabilities, phenomenology, and satellite servicing for space protection.

Radiation belt and plasma particle effects modeling for space systems. Includes spacecraft charging models, materials interaction studies, and nuclear effects analysis.

Development of material substitutes, recycling methods, and rare earth recovery. Addresses supply chain resilience and material conservation for defense applications.