DoD SBIR/STTR topics closing this month (July 2026)
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DoW Neurofibromatosis Synergistic Idea Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP) Synergistic Idea Award (SIA) supports new ideas that represent synergistic approaches to neurofibromatosis (NF) research involving two or three Principal Investigators (PIs). These investigators should utilize their complementary and synergistic perspectives to address a…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Neurofibromatosis Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) supports high-impact research that addresses a critical need and has the potential to make important contributions to the field of neurofibromatosis disorders or advance patient care. Research projects may focus on any phase of…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Neurofibromatosis Research Academy – Scholar Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP) Neurofibromatosis Research Academy – Scholar Award (NFRA-SA) supports early-career independent investigators (Scholars) joining the Neurofibromatosis Research Academy to pursue a neurofibromatosis project that may include basic, translational, and/or clinical research.…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Neurofibromatosis Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP) Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award (EHDA) supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain, and potentially groundbreaking concepts in neurofibromatosis (NF) research. Studies supported by this award mechanism should lay the groundwork for future…
→ Full topic / applyDOW Combat Readiness – Medical Research Program Translational Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Combat Readiness – Medical Research Program (CRRP) Translational Research Award (TRA) supports hypothesis-driven innovative, high-impact translational research that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas and/or technologies in trauma care into solutions to maximize casualty survivability, improve…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Neurofibromatosis Research Academy – Leadership Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-14
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Neurofibromatosis Research Program (NFRP) Neurofibromatosis Research Academy – Leadership Award (NFRALA) supports visionary, established neurofibromatosis (NF) investigators with documented history of neurofibromatosis funding, publications, strong mentorship and commitment to leadership to serve as Director and…
→ Full topic / applyInformation Processing Techniques Office Office-Wide
DARPA - Information Processing Technologies Office (DOD-DARPA-IPTO) · closes 2027-06-22
This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing IPTO programs or other published solicitations. Potential proposers are highly encouraged to visit the IPTO technical office page (https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/ipto) to view current and upcoming IPTO programs and solicitations in order…
→ Full topic / applyFiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of the Navy (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program
Office of Naval Research (DOD-ONR) · closes 2026-12-11
Key programmatic objectives of the DoN HBCU/MI Program are achieved through the implementation and performance of three program goals:• enhancing the research and educational capabilities of HBCU/MIs in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the defense mission of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps,• encouraging…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Parkinson’s, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-06
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Parkinson’s Research Program (PRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) supports highly rigorous, multidisciplinary, high-impact research projects that have the potential to make an important contribution to Parkinson’s disease research. Research must address at least one of the four FY26 PRP Focus…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Parkinson’s, Early Investigator Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-06
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Parkinson’s Research Program (PRP) Early Investigator Research Award (EIRA) supports Parkinson’s disease (PD) research for investigators in the early stages of their careers. The FY26 EIRA offers two funding levels, which align to the research career stage of the Principal Investigator (PI). Funding Level…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Kidney Cancer, Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators – Early-Career Scholar Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-28
Summary: Initially created in fiscal year 2019 (FY19), the Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators (AKCI) is a unique interactive virtual academy providing intensive mentoring, national networking, collaborations, and a peer group for junior faculty. The Academy pairs Early Career Scholars (ECS) with established…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Kidney Cancer, Idea Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-28
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) supports the development of high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of kidney cancer and ultimately lead to improved patient outcomes. The research project should include a well-formulated, testable hypothesis based on strong scientific…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Orthopaedic, Clinical Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Orthopaedic Research Program (ORP) Clinical Research Award (CRA) seeks clinical research that evaluates orthopaedic-specific factors and interventions. The ORP intends for research supported by this mechanism to generate clinically useful evidence with potential to optimize patient outcomes and inform clinical care or…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Orthopaedic, Applied Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-18
Summary: The Orthopaedic Research Program (ORP) Applied Research Award (ARA) seeks applied research applications focused on advancing optimal treatment and restoration of function for individuals with orthopaedic injuries sustained during combat or service-related activities.Distinctive Features: • Applied research is defined as work that refines…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Rare Cancers Idea Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) promotes ideas that are ready for further development and have the potential to yield high-impact findings and new avenues of investigation.Distinctive Features:The RCRP encourages applicants to include an exploratory aim or sub-aim to support any…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Rare Cancers Resource and Community Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) Resource and Community Development Award (RCDA) supports the development of research resources and clinical or preclinical datasets that will advance the field of rare cancers research and ultimately improve outcomes for individuals with rare cancers. Research supporting this…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Joint Warfighter Medical, Military Medical Research and Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-16
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (JWMRP) Military Medical Research and Development Award (MMRDA) mechanism is intended to fund the logical continuation of previous Department of War (DOW)-funded research and development efforts relevant to the FY26 JWMRP that augment and accelerate high-priority medical…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Bone Marrow Failure, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-04
Summary: Supports studies that further develop mature ideas, expand upon key discoveries, and have the potential to make significant advances in bone marrow (BMF) failure research and/or patient care. Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) applications may involve translational and clinical research including studies in preclinical models, research…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Bone Marrow Failure, Idea Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-04
Summary: The BMFRP Idea Development Award (IDA) is intended to support innovative ideas and high-impact approaches based on scientifically sound evidence to move toward the BMFRP’s vision of understanding and curing BMF diseases.Distinctive Features:This funding opportunity is open to Established Investigators (EIs) and Early-Career Investigators…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Bone Marrow Failure, Resource Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-04
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Bone Marrow Failure Research Program (BMFRP) Resource Development Award (RDA) supports the development of a multiomic atlas generated from well-annotated human bone marrow failure (BMF) samples, with omic data derived from marrow specimens. The resulting dataset should serve as an open-access, durable resource for the…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Rare Cancers Concept Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-30
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) Concept Award (CA) supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. Applications must describe how the new idea will be innovative and present as a novel course of investigation in the field of rare cancers.Distinctive…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Idea Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program (DMDRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) promotes new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation. This award supports impactful, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Clinical/Translational Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-18
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program (DMDRP) Clinical/Translational Research Award (CTRA) supports advanced translational research to accelerate promising ideas in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research toward clinical applications. Research must address at least one of the FY26 CTRA Focus Areas. Research…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Reconstructive Transplant, Concept Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-09-16
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Reconstructive Transplant Research Program (RTRP) Concept Award supports the exploration of highly innovative new concepts or untested theories that address an important problem relevant to reconstructive transplantation. The Concept Award does not support clinical trials. Distinctive Features: · Innovation:…
→ Full topic / applyMulti Modal Materials Analysis (MMoMA)
DARPA - Defense Sciences Office (DOD-DARPA-DSO) · closes 2026-08-26
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative solutions in the technical area of materials analysis, including surface and bulk analysis of molecular structure, elemental composition, trace elements and isotope ratios in samples, to be conducted under ambient conditions, without the need for special sample preparation.…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Kidney Cancer, Concept Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-07-28
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) Concept Award supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking concepts, theories, paradigms and/or basic kidney cancer research. This award mechanism supports high-risk studies that have the potential to reveal entirely new avenues for investigation in kidney…
→ Full topic / applySpecial Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
Office of Naval Research (DOD-ONR) · closes 2026-11-16
The proposed topic will develop and mature Communications and Networking technologies for Naval operations.Background:A Design for Maritime Superiority (2018) describes an operational architecture for distributed maritime operations (DMO) that "... will provide accurate, timely, and analyzed information to units, warfighting groups, and…
→ Full topic / applyDecentralized Artificial Intelligence through Controlled Emergence (DICE)
DARPA - Information Processing Technologies Office (DOD-DARPA-IPTO) · closes 2026-08-25
The DICE program seeks to develop the theory and algorithms for decentralized coordination and local inference control to enable a scalable, adaptive, and resilient collective of heterogeneous AI agents that can autonomously execute sustained long-time-horizon missions in contested environments while remaining under human control. In contrast to…
→ Full topic / applyGlobalX Challenge 26.2: Naval Southern Hemisphere Space Weather and Plasmas (NSHSWP)
Office of Naval Research (DOD-ONR) · closes 2026-08-31
This purpose of the GlobalX Challenge is to accelerate the traditional knowledge generation cycle, proving or disproving an applied research theory on an advanced timeline, leading to the discovery of revolutionary dual-use capability for the benefit of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, the commercial marketplace, and the public. The expected outcomes of…
→ Full topic / applyGlobalX Challenge 26.1: AI-Native Air Interface for Tactical Communication Networks
Office of Naval Research (DOD-ONR) · closes 2026-08-31
The purpose of the GlobalX Innovation Challenge is to accelerate the traditional knowledge generation cycle, rapidly testing applied research theories to enable the discovery of revolutionary dual-use capabilities for the benefit of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, the commercial marketplace, and the public. Led by the Office of Naval Research Global and…
→ Full topic / applyResearch and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)
Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command (DOD-AMC) · closes 2026-08-11
This solicitation invites applications (also referred to as “proposals”) for basic research projects. The proposals must align with the research areas of interest to the DoW (which includes the USW(R&E) and the Agencies) and enhance the education of students in areas of STEM that align with the DoW research interests. Information about…
→ Full topic / applyResearch Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DOD-AFOSR)
AFOSR plans, coordinates, and executes the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) basic research program in response to technical guidance from AFRL and requirements of the Air Force. Additionally, the office fosters, supports, and conducts research within Air Force, university, and industry laboratories; and ensures transition of research results…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Toxic Exposures Clinical Trial Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-19
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Toxic Exposures Research Program (TERP) Clinical Trial Award (CTA) mechanism supports the advancement, execution, and analysis of clinical trials with the potential to have a significant impact on the prevention, treatment, or management of symptoms, diseases or conditions associated with or resulting from…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Toxic Exposures Translational Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-19
Summary: The intent of the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Toxic Exposures Research Program (TERP) Translational Research Award (TRA) is to support translational research that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas in military-related toxic exposure research into clinical applications, including health care products, interventions, technologies and/or…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Toxic Exposures Investigator Initiated Research Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-11-19
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 Toxic Exposures Research Program (TERP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) is intended to support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or patient care for diseases or conditions associated with military-related toxic exposures. Research projects may focus on any phase of research…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Autism Career Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-10-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Autism Research Program (ARP) Career Development Award supports early-career, independent investigators and/or the transition of established investigators from other research fields to conduct innovative, high-impact ideas or early-phase, proof-of-principle clinical trials with the potential to have a major impact on…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Autism Idea Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-10-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Autism Research Program (ARP) Idea Development Award supports the development of innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress in improving outcomes for Autistic individuals. This award mechanism is designed to support innovative…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Autism Clinical Trial Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-10-22
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Autism Research Program (ARP) Clinical Trial Award supports the rapid implementation of clinical trials with the potential to have a significant impact on the treatment or management of autism. Clinical trials may be designed to evaluate promising new products, pharmacologic agents (drugs or biologics), devices,…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Military Burn, Technology/Therapeutic Development Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-10-21
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Military Burn Research Program (MBRP) Technology/Therapeutic Development Award (TTDA) is a burn-focused, product-driven award mechanism intended to provide support for the translation of promising preclinical findings into burn products for clinical application in an austere, resource-limited, distributed operational…
→ Full topic / applyDoW Military Burn, Discovery Award
Defense Health Agency Contracting Activity - DHACA (DOD-AMRAA) · closes 2026-10-21
Summary: The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Military Burn Research Program (MBRP) Discovery Award supports innovative, untested, groundbreaking research that provides new insights and explores early concepts in combat-relevant burn care that provide the foundation for future translational and/or clinical research. The proposed project may be exploratory,…
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