Active Government Funding Opportunities

Army energetics innovation research in explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics. Areas include modeling, synthesis methods, high energy density materials, and lifecycle advancement.

Army revolutionary armament design R&D including threat recognition, targeting, and remotely operated platforms. Focus on hypervelocity airframes, novel propulsion, morphing structures, and advanced materials.

Army fuze technology research including Electronic Safe and Arm Devices, MEMS devices, and miniaturized components. Focus on reliability, manufacturability, and G-load survivability.

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.

Army disruptive lethality research in next-generation warheads and lethal mechanisms. Focus on increased energy density, multi-domain targeting, and novel materials.

Army fire control technology R&D including optics, electro-optics, position/navigation sensors, and quantum science. Spans target acquisition, tracking, and autonomous systems integration.

Army logistics and supportability R&D including predictive maintenance, ammunition health monitoring, and supply chain management. Emphasizes AI-based planning and battlefield manufacturing.

Army environmental and demilitarization technology research improving lifecycle sustainability. Focus on wastewater treatment, emerging contaminant elimination, and AI process control.

Army biometric technology research for detection, identification, and tracking. Advances fingerprint, face, iris, palm, voice, and DNA capture with portable, lightweight imaging platforms.

Army research in containerized software and orchestration technology for enhanced deployment, scalability, and cybersecurity. Emphasizes cloud-agnostic, standards-compliant solutions supporting DevSecOps.

Army research supporting cloud-based software factories leveraging DevSecOps for rapid development and deployment. Focus on GOTS/open source tools, implementation best practices, and continuous accreditation.

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 Digital Engineering research supporting the Digital Thread across product lifecycle. Focuses on CAD/software integration, semantic data exchange, ontologies, and API standards.

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.

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

Army research identifying operational deficiencies and leveraging existing technology base through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Focus on innovative integration of evolving technologies for enhanced capabilities.

Air Force structural materials R&D spanning scientific discovery through technology development and transition. Seeks innovations in materials science, composites, alloys, and manufacturing processes.

Navy RFI for modernizing Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) correlator system using software-based capabilities and high-performance computing to enable near real-time operations and process higher data volumes.

Library system migration from Aleph ILS to modern Library Services Platform. Includes data migration, custom index replacement, and federated search functionality for federal databases.

This RFP seeks autonomous leader-follower UAS formation technology enabling single operators to manage multiple coordinated aircraft while reducing workload and enhancing mission resilience. Solutions should incorporate AI-based control, resilient mesh communications, and adaptive algorithms for contested and GPS-denied environments.

The Air Force seeks Runtime Assured Autonomy (RTAA) technology to continuously monitor and safeguard autonomous unmanned systems when radio communications fail or operator workload is saturated. RTAA detects autonomy faults and activates recovery protocols to ensure safe flight and mission success in complex battle scenarios.

Sources sought for scientific evidence evaluation and knowledge integration in translational toxicology. NIH seeking small business capabilities for evidence synthesis and AI-driven toxicology research support.

Earth Venture Orbital (EVO-1) solicitation for innovative, PI-led Earth observation investigations in low Earth orbit. Community announcement seeking novel science mission concepts with cost-capped investigations.

FAA ten-year research BAA covering aviation structural integrity, pavement assessment, fatigue testing, and advanced aerospace research topics across multiple technical areas.

Army aviation and missile R&D BAA seeking competitive research proposals for defense technology advancement across multiple technical focus areas.