Active Government Funding Opportunities

Resilient Analytic Platforms for Intelligence Delivery (RAPID) ARA seeks innovative cloud-based intelligence analysis tools, workflow automation, and cyber-resilient dashboards. Estimated $237M total funding.

ERDC has developed a patented technology for indoor air quality and building design. This webinar explores licensing and commercializing opportunities for companies with manufacturing or distribution capabilities.

Army autonomy, guidance, navigation, and control R&D for autonomous munitions. Areas include long-range precision guidance, collaborative control, GPS-denied navigation, and machine intelligence.

Development of innovative aircraft integration technologies addressing physical, electrical, and logical interfaces. Focus on integration solutions for air dominance weapon systems and combat platforms.

Investigation of missile power electronics and thermal management for air-to-air systems. Research emphasizes miniaturization of power conversion, advanced battery technologies, and compact guidance electronics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Advanced processing, command and control algorithms for contested space operations. Includes network defense, secure enclaves, autonomous orchestration, and radiation-hardened processors.

Army research in future small arms lethal technologies including ammunition ballistics, fire control, and AI-enhanced systems. Focus on warfighter lethality against lightly armored targets.

Army testing methodology R&D including destructive/non-destructive testing, inspection, and verification/validation. Areas span environmental testing, automated software testing, and quality control innovations.

Research advanced materials and manufacturing science for chemical and biological defense applications with enhanced protective properties.

Develop analytical toxicology methods and analysis techniques for CBRNE agent identification and characterization.

Advanced data links and waveforms for contested/interference environments with LPI/LPD capabilities and compensation for high-rate orbital doppler effects.

Alternative PNT systems independent from GPS including optical/RF ranging, navigation signals, and low SWaP-C quantum inertial sensors.

Ground support infrastructure for constellation tasking and orchestration including C2 capabilities, intelligent automation tools, and mesh network management.

Counter-UAS and swarm defense R&D spanning electronic warfare, cyberspace, and autonomy. Develops integrated C-sUAS kill chain with low-collateral effects and UAS traffic management.