Active Government Funding Opportunities

NIST seeks organizations to establish Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers across 12 states and Puerto Rico. These centers provide technical assistance and advisory services to help small and mid-sized manufacturers improve competitiveness and operational efficiency.

NASA Goldfire annual software license renewal for competitive intelligence and innovation intelligence platform, supporting research and development decision-making capabilities.

ERDC seeks modular, rapidly deployable supercomputing architectures combining HPC and AI capabilities to overcome lengthy acquisition timelines. The solution must enable quick initial deployment, seamless scaling across thousands of processors, in-place hardware upgrades, and exact replication across classified networks—breaking free from rigid, static supercomputer designs.

The xTech|Phantum competition seeks innovative quantum sensors, quantum clocks, and photonic technologies to enhance Army position, navigation, timing, and communications capabilities while reducing dependence on GPS and improving performance in contested environments. Winners will be eligible to submit SBIR proposals under four specialized quantum and photonics topics.

This RFP seeks integrated quantum sensor components with minimal size, weight, and power requirements for vehicle and platform deployment. The effort aims to transition custom quantum sensing solutions toward standardized, commercially viable COTS components that reduce costs and expand dual-use market applications.

The Air Force seeks integrated prototype solutions combining expeditionary training environments, human performance optimization, and digital technologies to modernize Basic Military Training. Solutions must demonstrate measurable improvements in warfighter readiness and instructor effectiveness across a unified training ecosystem.

NIST market research to identify alternative commercial sources for comprehensive financial and market intelligence platform services and capabilities.

Technology licensing opportunity for ChronoQuantum quantum-based fiber timing integrity monitor using entangled photons for precision timing network assurance with AI-enabled predictive analytics.

R&D contract for fabrication of optically transparent micronozzle flow models and fluid dynamics characterization using particle velocimetry to support FDA medical device evaluation.

Sole-source purchase of Apple iPad Mini 7 devices for Electronic Flight Bags application support in USAF operations, set-aside for Women-Owned Small Businesses.

This RFP seeks innovative commercial sensing and analytics solutions to deliver real-time tactical surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking capabilities for military operators. The effort aims to close gaps in operational responsiveness by rapidly integrating commercially available space and ground-based insights with advanced data processing and fusion technologies.

NSF seeks proposals to unlock hidden value in existing scientific datasets through AI-driven feature extraction, metadata generation, and automated analysis pipelines. Enable interdisciplinary discovery by harmonizing data for AI tools while addressing security, governance, and community contribution frameworks.

Air Force seeks sound testing services at Edwards AFB and Nellis AFB through a 5-year IDIQ contract for acoustic analysis and testing support.

Rapid Assured Access (R2A) program establishing multiple IDIQ contracts providing rapid, assured semiconductor foundry access and vendor onramps for DoD and defense contractors to mitigate microelectronics supply gaps.

This RFP seeks AI-enabled autonomy software that generates game-theoretically optimized courses of action for coordinating UAS swarms in contested, degraded environments. The system must scale to 200+ aircraft, incorporate adversarial reasoning, and support decentralized decision-making for maritime and air defense operations.

USSOCOM seeks innovative stand-off detection technology to identify concealed threats—explosives, weapons, radiological materials—through barriers without sampling or active emissions. The feasibility study targets miniaturized, field-deployable systems for SOF missions including maritime operations, route clearance, and counter-air protection in GPS-denied environments.

This RFP seeks foundation-model-based systems for collaborative target recognition across multi-domain unmanned platforms. The solution must enable cross-platform target disambiguation and sensor fusion to replace manual, error-prone coordination processes in degraded operational environments.

This RFP seeks a room-temperature photon-number-resolution sensor array capable of detecting multiple simultaneous photons at GHz rates with megapixel scalability. The technology addresses quantum imaging and environmental sensing applications requiring precise photon counting while processing extreme data rates without loss.

This RFP seeks development of affordable infrared lens technology using salt-based optical materials to reduce thermal camera costs for unmanned drone systems. The challenge is engineering moisture-resistant coatings for these naturally hygroscopic materials to enable field deployment while maintaining cost advantages over traditional military infrared optics.

This RFP seeks compact, high-speed nanophotonic spatial light modulators to enable advanced wavefront control for adaptive optics applications. Current technologies like liquid crystal and MEMS devices are limited by slow response times, hindering adoption of LiDAR, free-space communications, and quantum sensing systems.

This RFP seeks tunable metasurface devices that perform analog optical edge detection and image processing directly within thermal-imaging systems. The innovation reduces computational load and latency by shifting feature extraction from digital post-processing to the optical front-end using practical, scalable mid-wave infrared materials.

Adaptive AI-driven waveform design for radar systems that autonomously optimize transmit parameters to counter electronic attack and interference in contested environments. The solution uses deep reinforcement learning to enable real-time waveform adaptation on edge-computing hardware while maintaining strict power and size constraints.

This RFP seeks development of an Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne interferometer spectrometer that simultaneously achieves large light-gathering capacity and ultra-high spectral resolution—solving a critical instrumentation gap for quantum communication systems, quantum sensing, and advanced remote sensing applications operating across 400–1600 nm wavelengths.

This RFP seeks a room-temperature photon-number-resolution imaging sensor array capable of detecting individual photons at gigahertz rates with minimal data loss. The technology will enable advanced quantum imaging and time-correlated photon measurements across megapixel arrays while maintaining scalability and real-time on-chip data compression.

T3CP seeks innovative commercialization of government-funded patents across microelectronics, advanced materials, energetics, munitions, critical minerals, and biomanufacturing sectors. Proposals should develop prototype products with clear commercial relevance and credible dual-use transition pathways, excluding incremental improvements without viable market applications.