Active Government Funding Opportunities

DARPA's Carbon Crunch program seeks advanced composite manufacturing methods to accelerate scalable, rapid hypersonic aeroshell production with improved design-cycle turnaround and cost reduction.

DARPA's Expedited Research Implementation Series is an open call for disruptive technology solutions featuring rapid acquisition through video pitch marketplace, enabling quick evaluation and deployment of breakthrough innovations.

DARPA's Commercial Solutions Opening seeks commercialization of DARPA R&D-funded technologies to fulfill military and civilian capability gaps, offering embedded entrepreneur support for technology transition.

The Air Force is developing AI-enabled command and control systems that enhance warfighter decision-making through human-machine teaming. This research explores how autonomy and machine learning can support military operations while keeping personnel actively involved in critical decisions.

The Air Force is seeking innovative munitions and air dominance technologies across 13 research areas, from advanced propulsion and guidance systems to AI-enabled autonomous capabilities. These developments aim to strengthen aircraft integration, targeting accuracy, and engagement effectiveness against evolving threats.

The Air Force seeks innovative commercial technologies and services to enhance Air Combat Command's operational capabilities. Proposals should address capability gaps, streamline mission effectiveness, or introduce new technologies currently unused by USAF that deliver strong value.

The Air Force seeks innovative technologies and research solutions across all technical areas to enhance human performance and mission capabilities through the CHEERS program. Proposals should address challenges in human enabling, sustaining, and restoring capabilities for defense applications.

The Air Force is seeking research on solar, ionospheric, and plasma physics effects to better understand and predict how space environment conditions disrupt military and national security systems. Proposals should address mitigation strategies and ways to exploit these effects for operational advantage.

The U.S. Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command seeks innovative emerging technologies to advance armament systems and associated capabilities throughout their product lifecycles. Proposals should present novel research addressing critical gaps in the Army's technical community across the full spectrum of armaments development needs.

The Army is exploring industry capabilities for developing Modular Mission Payloads to enhance cyber and space operations. This market research seeks innovative solutions that can flexibly adapt to evolving military mission requirements.

The Army seeks advanced layered protection technologies—including multi-spectral concealment, AI-enabled counter-drone systems, and resilient command networks—to enhance soldier survivability against peer adversaries in contested environments. Solutions must be modular, platform-agnostic, and optimized for rapid deployment and ease of use by frontline forces.

The Navy seeks cyberspace research, engineering, and technology integration services to maintain warfighter superiority in cyber operations. This covers technology assessment, systems engineering, software development, and cybersecurity support across Navy command and control systems.

The Air Force is seeking innovative cloud-based intelligence platforms that automate processing workflows and consolidate data into cyber-resilient dashboards. The goal is to deliver tailored, secure analytics capabilities that enhance decision-making across multiple intelligence disciplines while maintaining cybersecurity throughout their lifecycle.

The Air Force is seeking advanced multi-sensor fusion and automatic target recognition algorithms to improve air-to-ground combat identification capabilities. These solutions will integrate with existing platforms to enhance targeting accuracy and decision-making for military operations.

The Air Force seeks innovations in cyber security, open system architecture, and advanced avionics to protect military platforms and electronic warfare systems from vulnerabilities. Research will develop tools, simulation capabilities, and technologies that safeguard manned and unmanned aircraft, sensors, and munitions across multi-domain operations.

The Army seeks optical tracking technology to accurately locate and track test systems in GPS-denied environments, replacing unreliable ground-based sensors and limited indoor testing chambers with a scalable, passive landmark-based solution.

The Army seeks innovative manufacturing technologies to strengthen ammunition production capabilities. Solutions should enhance digital integration, operational resilience, and sustainability while meeting DoD cybersecurity and readiness standards.

The Air Force seeks advanced Combat Identification and Automated Target Recognition technology to improve military targeting accuracy and decision-making. This R&D initiative aims to enhance existing systems for better real-world operational effectiveness.

The Army is seeking advanced multispectral screening and obscuration technology to enhance concealment and detection capabilities in field operations. This innovation aims to improve tactical advantages by integrating optical masking with real-time environmental analysis.

The Navy and Marine Corps are seeking long-range science and technology proposals to advance military operations across diverse engineering disciplines. Researchers from academia, industry, and worldwide sources can compete for funding to develop innovative solutions enhancing naval and marine capabilities.

The Air Force is seeking innovative research to enhance counter-unmanned aircraft defenses through advances in electronic warfare, cyber operations, and autonomous command-and-control systems. The focus is developing low-collateral solutions, improved threat detection, and integrated traffic management to safely operate unmanned systems in contested airspace.

The Air Force is seeking innovative research to develop adversary system analysis capabilities that help optimize cyber tactics and procedures against evolving threats. This work will support Air Force, USCYBERCOM, and partner entities through proof-of-concept development and operational testing.

The Air Force seeks innovative solutions for secure, seamless information sharing across military networks and security domains at the tactical edge. Research will develop next-generation cross-domain brokers, dynamic red/black networking, and modeling frameworks to strengthen collaboration across air, space, and ground operations.

The Air Force seeks innovative research to rapidly integrate Systems of Systems and automate testing across heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. This capability enables seamless DoD system interoperability and deployment without requiring universal standardization across diverse legacy and modern technologies.

The Air Force is seeking innovative multi-source data fusion and reasoning technologies to enhance intelligence analysis and command operations. Proposals should advance analytical capabilities across target identification, moving target engagement, and publicly available information integration for C4I and cyber missions.