Federal Innovation Funding Briefing: Week of August 29, 2026 – September 4, 2026

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.