Active Government Funding Opportunities

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.

HUD seeks housing policy research to advance evidence-based solutions for affordable housing challenges. Grants support studies examining policy impacts, housing market dynamics, and interventions addressing homelessness and housing accessibility.

This opportunity supports alumni engagement initiatives in Mauritius through innovation funding. It aims to strengthen connections between U.S. exchange program alumni and their communities through creative projects and programs.

DOE technology licensing opportunity for integrated electrochemical system combining carbonate-composite membrane reactor and protonic ceramic electrolyzer for energy-efficient carbon capture and hydrogen production.

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement seeking R&D in 13 munitions research areas including guidance, propulsion, warheads, fuzing, and AI/autonomy for advanced weapons systems.

Fund university-based basic research in nuclear forensics disciplines—radiochemistry, detector science, shock physics, and modeling—to complement DOE lab applied work. Builds a pipeline of specialized scientists and engineers for national security missions across energy, defense, and intelligence agencies.

Counter-UAS and swarm defense R&D spanning electronic warfare, cyberspace, and autonomy. Develops integrated C-sUAS kill chain with low-collateral effects and UAS traffic management.

NASA seeks science team proposals for hemispheric airborne measurements of air quality. The HAMAQ program supports research using aircraft-based monitoring to advance atmospheric and environmental science understanding.

NSF seeks research projects that revolutionize engineering education and workforce development through new cultural or curricular innovations, or by adapting proven models to new contexts across higher education and workplace-based programs.

NSF seeks research on how engineers develop professional skills across education, training, and workplace contexts. Projects should integrate engineering and social science expertise to build pathways creating ethical, globally-competent engineers ready for evolving technical careers.