Defense Innovation Funding Opportunities | Edition 92

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Note: opportunities are arranged by submission date deadline, meaning the newest opportunities do not necessarily appear near the top of the document. Search [NEW]? to discover the most recent additions. Please find the opportunities linked to the submission date deadlines.

Closing This Month

Funding Available for Non-GPS Navigation Solutions | Aug. 1, 2024 | Innovative Capabilities Opening (ICO) | AFWERX

Innovators with alternative navigation solutions for small unmanned autonomous systems (sUAS) may submit their solutions to AFWERX for the opportunity to receive awards. Solutions may leverage techniques including visual reference, inertial, timing propagation via signals, magnetic, and solar or astrological navigation, or may be based upon entirely novel techniques. Submissions are due Aug. 1.

Funding Available for Information and Communication Technologies Research | Aug. 9, 2024 | Research Announcement (RA) | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Innovators with fundamental research that could enable novel information and communications technologies covering topics including high-performance, energy efficient devices; monolithic and heterogeneous integration; memory and storage; systems and architecture for distributed computing; intelligent sensing; connectivity; and cognition may submit their solutions to DARPA for the opportunity to receive funding. Submissions are due Aug. 9.

[NEW] Blue UAS Refresh Challenge? | Aug. 19, 2024 | Prize Challenge | DIU and NSIN

Companies with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technologies may submit their platforms, components, capabilities, or software for the potential to be included on the Blue UAS or Blue UAS Framework list. Submissions are due Aug. 19.

$2.25M Available for Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging | Aug. 30, 2024 | Prize Challenge | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Innovators are invited to propose, design, build, and test state-of-the-art SiC packaging prototypes that advance the industry for the opportunity to receive part of $2.25 million in prizes. Submissions are due Aug. 30.

Closing Next Month

Funding Available for Multiple Technologies | Sept. 4, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Army Innovators with technologies covering nine different topic areas including additive manufacturing, advanced materials, tooling, robotics, and sensing may submit their proposals for the opportunity to receive SBIR grant funding from the Army. These topics are currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Aug. 1 and close on Sept. 4.

$250,000 Grants Available for Multiple Technologies | Sept. 4, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Army Innovators with solutions for tools to enable mobile sustainment operations, tools to reverse engineer components, tool sets and lifting/moving equipment to enable flexible manufacturing system within mechanical and electrical repair facilities, and component and supply chain enhancement for uncooled thermal sensors

may submit their proposals for the opportunity to receive SBIR grant funding from the Army. These topics are currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Aug. 8 and close on Sept. 4.

$55,000 Available for Breath Diagnostics | Sept. 6, 2024 | Prize Challenge | NASA

Innovators with solutions to improve NASA’s E-Nose, adding functionality that could allow it to act as a clinical tool, testing the molecular composition of the breath to discriminate between the breath of COVID-positive and COVID-negative individuals may submit their solutions to win part of the $55,000 prize pool. Submissions are due Sept. 6. ?

$125,000 Available to Students for Cyber Resiliency and Measurement Solutions | Sept. 8, 2024 | Prize Challenge | Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD)

Student innovators with the ability to develop mathematical models and software algorithms to assess cyber resiliency and evaluate a system’s architecture, defined functions, hardware and software needs, known cyber vulnerabilities, and the effectiveness of its defensive capabilities against cyber attack from one or more advanced persistent threats (APTs.) may submit their solutions to NSWCDD for the opportunity to win part of $125,000. Submissions are due Sept. 8.

Funding Available for Multiple Technologies | Sept. 9, 2024 | Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) | Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) Innovators with research that covers the topic areas of interest of ONR or MCWL (find topic areas under the “BAA” tab) may submit their proposals for the opportunity to receive funding from ONR or MCWL. Submissions are due Sept. 9.

Funding Available for Multiple Technologies | Sept. 9, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Navy?

Innovators with solutions for advanced data integrity and control, sustainment and obsolescence, and advanced robotic automation for industrial processes may submit their solution for the opportunity to receive funding from the Navy. These topics are currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Aug. 8 and close on Sept. 9.

Funding Available for Warfighter Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | Sept. 10, 2024 | Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Grant | DARPA

Small businesses with lightweight, flexible, and breathable PPE solutions that could protect warfighters from extreme environments and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) threats without restricting their movement may submit their solutions for the opportunity to receive STTR funding. Submissions open on Aug. 7 and close on Sept. 10.

$250,000 and $2M Grants Available for AI/ML Technologies | Sept. 17, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Army

Small businesses with innovations for artificial intelligence and machine learning may submit their solutions to the Army for the opportunity to receive a $250,000 Phase I SBIR grant or a Direct to Phase II (DP2) SBIR grant. This topic is currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Aug. 13 and close on Sept. 17.

$250,000 and $2M Grants Available for Hybrid Electric Powertrain, Power, and Propulsion Systems Technologies | Sept. 17, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Army

Small businesses hybrid electric powertrain, power, and propulsion systems may submit their solutions to the Army for the opportunity to receive a $250,000 Phase I SBIR grant or a Direct to Phase II (DP2) SBIR grant. This topic is currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Aug. 13 and close on Sept. 17.

Up to $15M Available for Phase II SBIR Awardees | Sept. 18, 2024 | Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI)/Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)?

Small businesses that have been awarded a Phase II SBIR contract within the last two years are eligible to apply for additional funding through the U.S. Air Force’s STRATFI/TACFI program to help them bridge the “Valley of Death'' between Phase II and Phase III.? STRATFI/TACFI can be based on a Phase II contract from another service, however, the effort must have an Air Force end-user. Submissions close Sept. 18.

Further Out

Technology Commercialization Fund Open Voucher Call | Oct. 3, 2024 | Open Call | U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Innovators interested in receiving technical assistance from researchers at DOE National Laboratories may apply for $2.1 million in vouchers valid for testing and validation, use of specialized equipment and software, simulation and modeling, consulting, and more. Submissions are due Oct. 3.

$250,000 and $2M Grants Available for Battery Technologies | Oct. 15, 2024 | Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants | U.S. Army

Small businesses with innovations for battery technologies may submit their solutions to the Army for the opportunity to receive a $250,000 Phase I SBIR grant or a Direct to Phase II (DP2) SBIR grant. This topic is currently in pre-release. Submissions open on Sept. 10 and close on Oct. 15.

$139,500 Available to HBCU Students | Oct. 30, 2024 | Prize Challenge | 美国军队 xTech

Students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) may submit their solutions for autonomy and power and energy to the U.S. Army xTechHBCU Student competition for the opportunity to receive part of the cash prize, engage with the Do, participate in an accelerator program, and potentially develop a prototype of their innovative idea. Submissions are due Oct. 30.

Other Opportunities

[NEW] NATO DIANA Launches 2024 Challenges | Aug. 9, 2024 | Challenge | NATO DIANA

NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has launched its 2024 challenges to bring together the best innovators across the NATO alliance. The five challenge areas are energy and power, data and information security, sensing and surveillance, human health and performance, and critical infrastructure and logistics. Applications close Aug. 9.?