Active Government Funding Opportunities

This RFP seeks development of a minimally invasive remote blood collection device for free-ranging cetaceans to enable health monitoring and environmental surveillance. The prototype will use suction-cup deployment methods to collect capillary blood samples from Navy dolphins and wild populations, improving mission readiness and environmental compliance assessments.

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 RFP seeks a schema-driven AI system that transforms complex acquisition decisions into auditable, traceable decision packages for ground vehicle programs. The prototype will demonstrate how agentic AI processes digital engineering data while maintaining human control, transparency, and bias awareness throughout multi-phase trade studies.

This RFP seeks development of a geometric amplifier for telecom applications that leverages Berry phase modulation through fiber-coupled resonators. The approach offers potential advantages over conventional gain mechanisms through reduced complexity, size, and power consumption using RF modulation.

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 scalable, cost-effective methods to manufacture large-area 2D polymer films with precise structural control. Current production techniques yield low-quality or low-yield results, limiting commercial applications; this effort aims to enable roll-to-roll processing for materials with superior properties in catalysis, energy storage, and filtration.

This RFP seeks development of specialized metrology tools to measure and locate charge traps in diamond transistors, addressing current collapse issues that limit high-frequency RF power performance. The system must characterize trap density, energy levels, and locations across multiple device layers using government-provided diamond test devices.

This RFP seeks an open-source 5G platform stack tailored for small-to-mid-size manufacturers facing connectivity challenges in automated production environments. Solutions must demonstrate cost-effective private 5G deployment, validated interoperability across vendors, and reliable performance for mobile robots and machine vision in metal-heavy industrial settings.

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.

This STTR seeks bio-inspired underwater vehicle teams that leverage schooling hydrodynamics to achieve superior efficiency, range, and stealth compared to conventional designs. Proposals should demonstrate untethered UUVs (1-5 meters) reaching 4+ meters/second while minimizing acoustic signatures and optimizing cost of transport.

This RFP seeks open-source 5G/6G solutions for large venues facing connectivity challenges, dead zones, and vendor lock-in costs. Proposers should demonstrate how OCUDU and related open-source components improve network performance across real stadium deployments while benefiting the broader RAN development community.

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 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.

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 development of a compact, receive-only passive X-Band radar with SAR and GMTI capabilities for covert sensing in contested environments. The lightweight, low-cost system must operate on small unmanned platforms without transmitting RF emissions, eliminating adversary detection risks.

This RFP seeks a proof-of-concept system integrating multi-source intelligence data and machine learning to detect threats and assess space operations in real-time. The solution must process non-traditional sensor data to monitor an increasingly congested orbital environment and provide commanders timely situational awareness for decision-making.

This RFP seeks development of ultrafast nonvolatile memory using sliding ferroelectricity in layered van der Waals materials to achieve superior speed, endurance, and energy efficiency compared to current memory technologies. The work requires multidisciplinary expertise in device design, fabrication, and characterization of atomically thin moiré structures.

This RFP seeks a Vision Language Model combining multimodal AI to detect and classify targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery from sensor-independent complex data. The capability integrates large language models with vision encoders to enable automated SAR image analysis and interpretation.

NIST is seeking proposals for microelectronics research, prototyping, and commercial solutions to advance U.S. chip technology capabilities. This addresses critical domestic semiconductor supply chain resilience and technological competitiveness.

Procurement of Okta Identity Cloud software and maintenance services for single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and identity management across federal systems.

Development and maintenance of Acoustic System Performance Estimate (ASPECT) software for Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare tactical planning, targeting ASW platform enhancements and fleet product sustainability.

Procurement of nurse-sensitive indicators and patient/nurse satisfaction survey services from NDNQI-approved provider for Veterans Affairs healthcare system.

Graphics and display system installation for 249th Engineer Battalion. Small business set-aside for facility signage and graphics infrastructure.

ERDC seeks innovative high-performance computing (HPC) system acquisition and support models to modernize how the Army procures, operates, and maintains advanced AI/ML and compute-intensive platforms across military research centers by 2027. This challenge uniquely demands solutions that balance cutting-edge technology insertion with security requirements across geographically distributed, classified and unclassified environments.

NASA seeks research proposals to advance cryosphere science and monitoring through Earth observation. This program funds competitive studies addressing ice sheet dynamics, glaciers, permafrost, and snow systems to improve climate understanding.