Open Department of Defense funding calls

Defense research funding from agencies including the Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA and the Defense Health Agency. 66 open calls, soonest deadline first.

• ONR FY27 NOFO for Young Investigator Program
  Office of Naval ResearchNot specifiedDeadline: October 30, 2026 ·
• DoW Reconstructive Transplant, Concept Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Idea Development Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Resource Development Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• DoW Reconstructive Transplant, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 4, 2026 ·
• DoW Parkinson’s, Early Investigator Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 6, 2026 ·
• DoW Parkinson’s, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 6, 2026 ·
• Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research$50,000 – $7,000,000Deadline: November 6, 2026 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
  Office of Naval Research$50,000 – $3,000,000Deadline: November 6, 2026 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command$50,000 – $3,000,000Deadline: November 6, 2026 ·
• DoW Vision, Clinical Trial Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Vision, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Vision, Translational Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Spinal Cord Injury, Translational Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Spinal Cord Injury, Clinical Trial Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Spinal Cord Injury, Clinical Translation Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• DoW Spinal Cord Injury, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 12, 2026 ·
• Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
  Office of Naval Research$250,000 – $500,000Deadline: November 16, 2026 ·
• DoW Joint Warfighter Medical, Military Medical Research and Development Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 16, 2026 ·
• DoW Orthopaedic, Applied Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Orthopaedic, Clinical Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Rare Cancers Idea Development Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Rare Cancers Resource and Community Development Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DOW Combat Readiness – Medical Research Program Translational Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Breast Cancer, Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Breast Cancer, Clinical Research Extension Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 18, 2026 ·
• DoW Toxic Exposures Clinical Trial Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 19, 2026 ·
• DoW Toxic Exposures Investigator Initiated Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 19, 2026 ·
• DoW Toxic Exposures Translational Research Award
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: November 19, 2026 ·
• The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program Cooperative Agreement
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandUp to $1,300,000,000Deadline: December 3, 2026 ·
• Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research$150,000 – $450,000Deadline: December 4, 2026 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
  Office of Naval Research$450,000 – $525,000Deadline: December 11, 2026 ·
• TTO Office Wide (OW) BAA 2025
  DARPA - Tactical Technology OfficeNot specifiedDeadline: December 22, 2026 ·
• FY25 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
  Office of Naval ResearchNot specifiedDeadline: December 31, 2026 ·
• Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2027
  DARPA - Defense Sciences OfficeNot specifiedDeadline: January 13, 2027 ·
• UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Broad Agency Announcement
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: March 31, 2027 ·
• FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research$200,000 – $600,000Deadline: April 5, 2027 ·
• FY26 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) CAPACITY BUILDING (CB)
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research$750,000 – $1,500,000Deadline: April 5, 2027 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
  Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchUp to $15,000,000Deadline: April 9, 2027 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandUp to $7,500,000Deadline: April 9, 2027 ·
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
  Office of Naval ResearchUp to $7,500,000Deadline: April 9, 2027 ·
• LPS Qubit Collaboratory (LQC)
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: April 30, 2027 ·
• Information Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
  DARPA - Information Processing Technologies OfficeNot specifiedDeadline: June 22, 2027 ·
• Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA
  DARPA - Defense Sciences OfficeNot specifiedDeadline: August 27, 2027 ·
• Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: September 18, 2027 ·
• DOD Defense Health Agency (DHA) Research & Development FY23-FY27 BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT for Extramural Medical Research
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACANot specifiedDeadline: September 30, 2027 ·
• CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
  Air Force -- Research LabNot specifiedDeadline: September 30, 2027 ·
• CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical Areas
  Air Force -- Research LabNot specifiedDeadline: September 30, 2027 ·
• DEVCOM ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: November 20, 2027 ·
• DEVCOM ANALYSIS CENTER BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR APPLIED RESEARCH
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: January 4, 2028 ·
• UNITED STATES ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (ARI) BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BASIC, APPLIED, AND ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: April 30, 2028 ·
• BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA) for Extramural Biomedical and Human Performance Research and Development Department of Defense
  Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA$750,000 – $50,000,000Deadline: July 31, 2028 ·
• FOUNDATIONS OF TRUSTED SYSTEMS
  Air Force -- Research LabUp to $99,900,000Deadline: December 5, 2028 ·
• ARMY APPLICATIONS LAB BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DISRUPTIVE APPLICATIONS
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: April 4, 2029 ·
• Coordinating Austere Nodes through Virtualization and Analysis of Streams (CANVAS)
  Air Force -- Research LabUp to $24,900,000Deadline: May 22, 2029 ·
• Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments
  Air Force -- Research LabUp to $49,000,000Deadline: July 18, 2029 ·
• Air Force Basic Research Sciences Conference and Workshop Support
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research$1 – $2,000,000Deadline: August 31, 2029 ·
• Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
  Air Force -- Research LabUp to $99,000,000Deadline: September 9, 2029 ·
• Staff Research Program
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command$200,000 – $10,000,000Deadline: Rolling (no fixed deadline listed)
• Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER)
  Air Force -- Research LabNot specifiedDeadline: Rolling (no fixed deadline listed)
• Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and Sustaining
  Air Force -- Research LabNot specifiedDeadline: Rolling (no fixed deadline listed)
• Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC)
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel CommandNot specifiedDeadline: Not listed
• Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy (formerly USAFA-BAA-2021)
  Air Force AcademyUp to $99,000,000Deadline: Not listed
• Tactical Behaviors for Autonomous Maneuver
  Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command$100,000 – $2,300,000Deadline: Not listed
• Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchUp to $10,000,000Deadline: Not listed