Active Government Funding Opportunities

Alternative PNT systems independent from GPS including optical/RF ranging, navigation signals, and low SWaP-C quantum inertial sensors.

Ground support infrastructure for constellation tasking and orchestration including C2 capabilities, intelligent automation tools, and mesh network management.

RF communication payload maturation including TT&C protocols, constellation commanding, waveform repurposing, and software-based transmission systems.

Space payload hosting technologies for RF/optical communications terminals with reduced integration time, cost, and complexity.

High-rate mesh backbone networks with fast data transfer, minimized latency, optimized routing, and dynamic adaptation for contested environments.

Multi-level security operations development for contested environments with cross-domain solutions, innovative security architectures, and formal verification methods.

Space system survivability through proliferation strategies, commercial standards reuse, redundancies, and rapid reconstitution capabilities.

Space Domain Awareness enhancements through low-cost resilient ground-based SDA, space-based sensors, and optics for comprehensive space environment knowledge.

Battle Management C3 efficiency improvements through space data analytics, AI, and automation for large datasets and space operations.

Innovative approaches for exercises, tests, and training environments including ride share solutions, multi-domain innovations, and inter-satellite link technologies for small satellites.

Qualification of materials and processes for DOD Programs of Record. Requires validation and integration planning with existing defense acquisition programs.

AI-enabled autonomous control of space vehicles and payloads for coordinated mission effects. Develops algorithms for resource allocation, scheduling, and network orchestration in contested environments.

Army electronics and sensors R&D including MEMS devices, distributed sensors, and anti-tamper systems. Emphasis on hardened electronics, autonomous behaviors, and advanced sensing.

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

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

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.

Support state agencies in implementing conservation programs for endangered and threatened marine species under the Endangered Species Act. Funding covers management efforts, scientific research, and public education to aid species recovery.

ERDC broad agency announcement for R&D in hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, environmental science, remote sensing, materials science, and military infrastructure innovation across multiple laboratory centers.

Idaho National Laboratory licensing for anisotropic additive manufacturing optimization technology creating material property databases for 3D printed parts design and prediction.

Air Force seeks innovative Next Generation Aircraft Protection technologies across four capability areas: system architecture, sensing, processing, and countermeasures with modular open architecture design.

Los Alamos technology licensing for selective metal separation using tunable chemistry to replace complex solvent extraction for actinides, lanthanides, and rare earth elements.

Naval Research Laboratory long-range BAA for basic and applied research proposals across diverse technical topic areas with competitive selection of innovative research.

Air Force five-year closed BAA seeking R&D solutions for airbase systems including timber products, automated heavy machinery, and PFAS destruction technologies.

ARO and NSA LPS Qubit Collaboratory seeks disruptive quantum computing and sensing research with collaborative partnerships, workforce development, and transformative qubit technology advancement.