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- [Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders](https://nta.org/2026/08/07/cellular-and-molecular-biology-of-complex-brain-disorders/) - Due: September 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages research on the biology of high-confidence risk factors associated with complex brain disorders, with a focus on the intracellular, transcellular, and circuit substrates of neural function. For the purposes of this NOFO, the term complex can refer to a multifactorial contribution to risk (e.g.,
- [DoW Prostate Cancer, Idea Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/08/07/dow-prostate-cancer-idea-development-award/) - Due: September 2, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) supports new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to the PCRP mission. Learn More
- [DoW Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/dow-tuberous-sclerosis-complex-exploration-hypothesis-development-award/) - Due: August 6, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award (EHDA) supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain and potentially groundbreaking concepts in the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) research field. Preliminary Data is not required. Applications should demonstrate the ability to achieve interpretable results in the
- [DoW Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Clinical Translational Research Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/dow-tuberous-sclerosis-complex-clinical-translational-research-award/) - Due: August 6, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Clinical Translational Research Award (CTRA) supports studies that will move promising, well-founded preclinical and/or clinical research findings closer to clinical application, including diagnosis, prognosis or treatment of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Learn More
- [DoW Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Idea Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/dow-tuberous-sclerosis-complex-idea-development-award/) - Due: August 6, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program (TSCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) supports conceptually innovative and high-impact research that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) research and/or improvements in patient care. Learn More
- [Smarter Space: AI and Data Solutions for LEO](https://nta.org/2026/08/06/smarter-space-ai-and-data-solutions-for-leo/) - Live Date: August 25, 2026 at 12 pm ET As the commercial space industry grows in scale and ambition -- and artificial intelligence moves closer to the edge -- space companies need access to advanced computing hardware and data management solutions capable of supporting increasingly complex missions. Join representatives from Amazon Web Services, BAE Systems,
- [Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/science-of-learning-and-augmented-intelligence-2/) - Due: August 5, 2026 Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context.The program
- [JSTO Enterprise Data and Artificial Intelligence (JEDAI) Ecosystem](https://nta.org/2026/08/04/jsto-enterprise-data-and-artificial-intelligence-jedai-ecosystem/) - Due: August 10, 2026 JSTO funded activities generate, process, and analyze massive amounts of diverse data. As the complexity of CB defense research grows, encompassing spectral, multi-omics, molecular dynamics, physiological, and epidemiological data, the volume and fragmentation of JSTO's data have become critical bottlenecks. Currently, these data exist across disconnected systems, sensor system silos, disparate
- [Process and Methodology Optimization Expertise for the Food Industry Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/08/04/process-and-methodology-optimization-expertise-for-the-food-industry-sprint/) - Due: September 1, 2026 A global food and beverage company regularly conducts extensive internal work to ensure that it is focused on the most important topics and utilizing optimal methodologies to determine those priorities. TechConnect’s client seeks to engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who can provide strategic benchmarking expertise to ensure that the organization
- [Perception, Action and Cognition](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/perception-action-and-cognition/) - Due: August 3, 2026 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [Zero Electrocution Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/08/01/zero-electrocution-challenge/) - Due: September 1, 2026 McElhattan Foundation’s Zero Electrocution Challenge seeks breakthrough solutions that present pathways to eliminate life-threatening tasks that lead to fatal electrocution on the job by the year 2050, while increasing enterprise profitability and productivity. This is the inaugural ZERO 2050 challenge, awarding two Winners up to $1 million each. Learn More and Apply
- [Alliance for System Safety of Unmanned Aircraft Systems through Research Excellence (ASSURE)](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/alliance-for-system-safety-of-unmanned-aircraft-systems-through-research-excellence-assure/) - Due: July 31, 2026 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) offer new technologies to support key mission requirements including preliminary damage assessments, debris measurements and calculations, visual evidence, confirmation analysis, establishing flood levels and damages to structures, search and rescue operations, and logistics and package delivery. As jurisdictions develop UAS programs and integrate this technology in emergency
- [Industrial Forge Quenching Capacity Improvement Amendment](https://nta.org/2026/07/28/industrial-forge-quenching-capacity-improvement-amendment/) - Due: July 31, 2026 Heavy forging is a foundational requirement for major defense platforms, particularly within the Submarine Industrial Base (SIB), shipbuilding, and heavy armor. Need Statement: Increase domestic infrastructure and capacity to improve throughput, reduce bottlenecks, and reduce lead times.The Government intends to award a prototype project to design, upgrade, and validate improved industrial
- [Advanced Nuclear Energy Technology Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/06/17/advanced-nuclear-energy-technology-challenge/) - Due: July 31, 2026 Diverse stakeholders including policymakers, utilities, and industry leaders are interested in energy sources that are reliable, scalable, carbon-free, secure, and domestic. Nuclear power is one of the few technologies capable of meeting all those requirements simultaneously. Advanced nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors (SMRs), microreactors, and next-generation reactor designs diverge from
- [Biological Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/biological-anthropology-program-senior-research-awards/) - Due: July 30, 2026 The Biological Anthropology Program seeks to advance scientific knowledge about the processes that have shaped biological diversity in living and fossil humans and their primate relatives through support of basic research on human and primate evolution, biological variation, and interactions between biology, behavior, and culture. The program supports a portfolio of
- [Building the Future Workforce Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/07/09/building-the-future-workforce-challenge/) - Due: July 30, 2026 Caterpillar knows preparing the workforce for the future is urgent. Communities, employers, and industry need new ways to close advancing skill gaps. The Building the Future Workforce Challenge invites fresh perspectives from all sectors to rethink training. Up to five teams will be awarded $1 million each for sustainable, tech‑forward solutions
- [DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Discovery Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/20/dow-peer-reviewed-medical-discovery-award/) - Due: July 30, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Discovery Award supports novel, untested, high-risk, high-reward research projects with the potential to provide new insights, paradigms, technologies, or applications and with a potential to generate preliminary data that will lay the foundation for future projects. The application must address
- [DoW Peer Reviewed Medical, Research Advancement Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/20/dow-peer-reviewed-medical-research-advancement-award/) - Due: July 30, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) Research Advancement Award supports fundamental research studies that will make an important contribution towards research, patient care, and/or quality of life for a disease or condition related to one of the congressionally directed FY26 PRMRP topic areas and one of
- [Developmental Sciences](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/developmental-sciences-3/) - Due: July 30, 2026 Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for
- [Developmental Sciences](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/developmental-sciences-4/) - Due: July 30, 2026 Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for
- [Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/traumatic-brain-injury-model-systems-national-data-and-statistical-center/) - Due: July 29, 2026 The purpose of NIDILRR's Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project (DRRP) grants is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by generating knowledge or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, especially those with
- [Correlating Type-2 Taste Receptors and Satiety Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/07/29/correlating-type-2-taste-receptors-and-satiety-sprint/) - Due: August 26, 2026 Mondelez International, the global snack company, seeks to understand the impact of activating bitter receptors outside the mouth on satiety and appetite regulation. Specifically, Mondelez International seeks subject matter experts (SMEs) with knowledge of gastroenteric type 2 taste receptors (T2Rs) in the gut for a collaborative project. Located in the lining
- [Threat Agnostic Host Directed MCMs](https://nta.org/2026/07/29/threat-agnostic-host-directed-mcms/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q2 FY27 Next-generation CBRN resilience initiative aimed at delivering threat agnostic host directed medical countermeasures that enhance the body’s ability to withstand, mitigate, and recover from the complex and overlapping physiological impacts of CBRN threats. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout
- [Broad Request for Solutions](https://nta.org/2026/07/29/broad-request-for-solutions/) - Due: September 30, 2026 The purpose of this broad request for solutions is to solicit innovative proposals for prototype development, demonstration, test and evaluation, analytics, modeling and simulation to address current and future needs for the ten technology areas within the capability gap. The Government will evaluate the solutions with the intent of awarding a
- [Electro Optic Sight System Prototypes for MK34 and MK48 Gun Weapon Systems](https://nta.org/2026/07/29/electro-optic-sight-system-prototypes-for-mk34-and-mk48-gun-weapon-systems/) - Due: August 7, 2026 The US Navy and US Coast Guard currently have several classes of ships with Gun Weapon Systems (GWS) using MK20 MOD 1 Electro-Optical Sight Systems (EOSS). The current EOSS imposes obsolescence risks and issues which are exacerbated by the limitation of sources and current architecture. Updated performance criteria are needed for
- [Integrated Data Systems and Services](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/integrated-data-systems-and-services/) - Due: July 28, 2026 The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that broadly advance and facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education.Through this solicitation, the IDSS program is accepting proposals for three categories of projects:Category I: Development, deployment, and operation of
- [DoW Kidney Cancer, Concept Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/dow-kidney-cancer-concept-award/) - Due: July 28, 2026 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 cancer. Applications must describe how the
- [Medical Decontamination Personnel Skin](https://nta.org/2025/10/28/medical-decontamination-personnel-skin/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4 2027 This opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below and
- [Advanced Differential Diagnostics (ADD)](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/advanced-differential-diagnostics-add-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4 FY27 Host response based test to predict illness severity. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are
- [Accelerated Antibodies Modification](https://nta.org/2024/07/23/accelerated-antibodies-modification/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q2 FY27: Modification of existing Accelerated Antibodies agreement for additional monoclonal antibody prototype. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you
- [Predicting the Molecular Drivers of Flavor and Sensory Performance Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/07/20/predicting-the-molecular-drivers-of-flavor-and-sensory-performance-sprint/) - Due: August 18, 2026 Mondelez International seeks innovative analytical methods, technologies, and research capabilities that improve the ability to predict how ingredient composition influences flavor, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel. The objective is to identify partners capable of helping build predictive foodomics workflows that connect chemical composition with human sensory perception, enabling faster and more informed
- [Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/fire-science-innovations-through-research-and-education/) - Due: February 10, 2026 The Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) program invites innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire. All areas of science, engineering, and education supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation are included in this program. Projects developed by a wide array
- [DoW Lupus, Impact Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/19/dow-lupus-impact-award/) - Due: August 24, 2026 This funding mechanism supports high-risk/high-reward research that has the potential to make a major impact in lupus research and/or lupus disease. The emphasis is on impact. Research must address at least one of the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Lupus Research Program (LRP) Impact Award (IPA) focus areas. This funding mechanism does
- [Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics](https://nta.org/2026/07/21/methodology-measurement-and-statistics/) - Due: August 27, 2026 The Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential utility for multiple
- [Repurposing Equipment for Drug Delivery](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/repurposing-equipment-for-drug-delivery/) - Due: July 23, 2026 The objective of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, and other stakeholders to assist BARDA in understanding the existing capabilities to assume ownership of available equipment and leverage those assets to manufacture an emergency autoinjector platform, featuring a novel glass-free, collapsible, primary drug container (PDC) with the final
- [Critical Minerals and Materials Accelerator Notice of Funding Opportunity](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/critical-minerals-and-materials-accelerator-notice-of-funding-opportunity-2/) - Due: July 23, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports critical minerals and materials. Critical minerals and materials (CMM) are the building blocks for technologies foundational to U.S. energy dominance, national security, and industrial competitiveness. To build a secure domestic supply of CMMs, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to support collaborative industry
- [Double Probe Consolidated Cargo Replenishment at Sea (CONSOL)](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/double-probe-consolidated-cargo-replenishment-at-sea-consol/) - Due: July 22, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Training and Readiness Accelerator (TReX) II. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [Multi Modal Materials Analysis](https://nta.org/2026/07/21/multi-modal-materials-analysis/) - Due: August 26, 2026 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. Proposed research should
- [Pax Silica Artificial Intelligence Assistance Project](https://nta.org/2026/07/21/pax-silica-artificial-intelligence-assistance-project/) - Due: August 20, 2026 Leveraging foreign assistance from the Pax Fund, this NOFO launches the Pax Silica Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistance Project - a historic first-of-its-kind programmatic initiative to strengthen global AI supply chain security by creating a trusted supply chain credentialing and provenance platform to secure the AI supply chain in partner countries and
- [DoW Epilepsy Research Partnership Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/21/dow-epilepsy-research-partnership-award/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The intent of the Epilepsy Research Program (ERP) Research Partnership Award is to support new or existing research partnerships focused on collaboratively addressing critical questions relevant to post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) in a manner that would be unachievable through separate efforts. It is expected that investigators will utilize their distinct but complementary
- [Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Development of Disorders of the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/blueprint-neurotherapeutics-network-bpn-small-molecule-drug-discovery-and-development-of-disorders-of-the-nervous-system/) - Due: August 18, 2026 The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN) invites applications from neuroscience investigators seeking support to advance their small molecule drug discovery and development projects into the clinic. Participants in the BPN are responsible for conducting all studies that involve disease- or target-specific assays, models, and other research tools and receive funding for all
- [Chemical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/chemical-oceanography-3/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and
- [Biological Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/biological-oceanography-4/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes. Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or
- [Cognitive Neuroscience](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/cognitive-neuroscience-4/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposal also typically strengthen the field through,
- [Physical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/physical-oceanography-3/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the
- [DoW Multiple Sclerosis Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/16/dow-multiple-sclerosis-exploration-hypothesis-development-award/) - Due: August 13, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) Exploration – Hypothesis Development Award (EHDA) supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain, and potentially groundbreaking concepts in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research field. The studies supported by this award mechanism are expected to lay the groundwork for future avenues
- [Ecosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering-5/) - Due: August 11, 2026 Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation. The primary goal of the ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE) program is
- [Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/science-of-learning-and-augmented-intelligence/) - Due: August 5, 2026 Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. The
- [Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/science-of-learning-and-augmented-intelligence-3/) - Due: August 5, 2026 Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence - how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. The
- [Perception, Action & Cognition](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/perception-action-cognition-3/) - Due: August 3, 2026 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [Perception, Action and Cognition](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/perception-action-and-cognition-2/) - Due: August 3, 2026 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [Defense Manufacturing Readiness Exercise](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/defense-manufacturing-readiness-exercise/) - Due: July 20, 2026 The Defense Manufacturing Readiness Exercise (DMRE) is a phased prototype effort conducted under the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) toidentify, assess, develop, and evaluate manufacturing capabilities that may contribute to qualified, contractable, and usable defense production capacity. This effort supports both theDefense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) mission
- [Integrated Data Systems & Services](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/integrated-data-systems-services-2/) - Due: July 28, 2026 The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that broadly advance and facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education. Through this solicitation, the IDSS program is accepting proposals for three categories of projects: Development, deployment, and operation of
- [Developmental Sciences](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/developmental-sciences-2/) - Due: July 30, 2026 Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for
- [Critical Minerals and Materials Accelerator Notice of Funding Opportunity](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/critical-minerals-and-materials-accelerator-notice-of-funding-opportunity/) - Due: July 20, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports critical minerals and materials. Critical minerals and materials (CMM) are the building blocks for technologies foundational to U.S. energy dominance, national security, and industrial competitiveness. To build a secure domestic supply of CMMs, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to support collaborative industry
- [Mitigating Proliferation Risks Posed by Artificial Intelligence Enabled Molecular Models and Leveraging Nonproliferation Opportunities](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/mitigating-proliferation-risks-posed-by-artificial-intelligence-enabled-molecular-models-and-leveraging-nonproliferation-opportunities/) - Due: July 21, 2026 The Department of State's Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (ACN/NDF) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ACN/NDF invites domestic non-profit/non-governmental organizations, educational institutions, and for-profit organizations to submit proposals for projects that will advance the mission of NDF's
- [CIND (All States of Matter for Various Chemical Hazards)](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/cind-all-states-of-matter-for-various-chemical-hazards/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBD Chemical indicators; Low-cost, easy to use, ultra-low SWaP modular open system based chemical detector that is widely distributed to the General Forces as an integrated kit for indication of chemical hazards; Provide detection and classification capabilities with increased confidence for traditional, advanced and emerging chemical hazards such as CWAs, NTAs, PBAs,
- [High-Performance Antigen Diagnostics](https://nta.org/2026/06/23/high-performance-antigen-diagnostics/) - Due: July 17, 2026 The Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to better understand the research, development, and product landscape of current and next-generation high-performance immunoassay technologies suitable for antigen testing in near-patient settings. While conventional antigen-based immunoassays offer speed, ease of use, and low cost, they remain limited
- [Harmful Algal Bloom Innovation Challenge: Toxin Detection in Seafood](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/harmful-algal-bloom-innovation-challenge-toxin-detection-in-seafood-2/) - Due: July 16, 2026 The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Competitive Research Program (NCCOS/CRP) [formerly Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)/Coastal Ocean Program (COP)] is soliciting proposals to drive practical and cost-effective innovations for harmful algal bloom toxin detection in seafood that
- [HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/heal-initiative-early-stage-discovery-of-new-pain-targets-within-the-understudied-druggable-proteome/) - Due: July 16, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for pilot projects to identify new druggable targets for pain within the understudied druggable proteome. Awards will support generation of preliminary data and/or tools around eligible understudied protein(s) listed in this NOFO. This NOFO is intended to jumpstart
- [HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets within the Understudied Druggable Proteome](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/heal-initiative-early-stage-discovery-of-new-pain-targets-within-the-understudied-druggable-proteome-2/) - Due: July 16, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for pilot projects to identify new druggable targets for pain within the understudied druggable proteome. Awards will support generation of preliminary data and/or tools around eligible understudied protein(s) listed in this NOFO. This NOFO is intended to jumpstart
- [2026 Chem-Bio Threat Reduction Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/07/16/2026-chem-bio-threat-reduction-innovation-challenge/) - Due: August 12, 2026 Chemical and biological threats are becoming more diverse, more sophisticated, and increasingly difficult to detect before they impact military operations, critical infrastructure, public health, or civilian populations. Emerging pathogens, engineered biological agents, toxic industrial chemicals, and novel chemical warfare agents demand faster detection, smarter analysis, and more resilient protective capabilities. The
- [Social Psychology](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/social-psychology/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports theoretically focused empirical investigations that advance fundamental social psychological explanations of human behavior, attitudes, and experience. Synopsis The Social Psychology Program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought,
- [Arctic Research Opportunities](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/arctic-research-opportunities-3/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region. The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process,
- [Ocean Technology Transition Program](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/ocean-technology-transition-program/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a national and regional partnership working to provide ocean, coastal and Great Lakes observations, data, tools, and forecasts to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect our environment. To increase observational and technical capabilities we need smart investments to innovate sensors, data management,
- [Linguistics](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/linguistics-2/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that
- [Protection Before Day-One Vaccine: Advancing Broadly Protective Seasonal Influenza Vaccines with Pandemic Coverage](https://nta.org/2026/06/12/protection-before-day-one-vaccine-advancing-broadly-protective-seasonal-influenza-vaccines-with-pandemic-coverage/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The objective of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, and other stakeholders to assist BARDA in identifying and understanding the development maturity of Day-One influenza vaccine candidates and associated enabling technologies. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout
- [Social Psychology](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/social-psychology-2/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports theoretically focused empirical investigations that advance fundamental social psychological explanations of human behavior, attitudes, and experience.SynopsisThe Social Psychology Program invites research and infrastructure proposals that advance knowledge of how human behavior is influenced by macro- and micro-level social forces, including how thought, motivation, emotion,
- [FY 2026 Ocean Technology Transition Program](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/fy-2026-ocean-technology-transition-program/) - Due: July 15, 2026 Request for Applications Description: The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a national and regional partnership working to provide ocean, coastal and Great Lakes observations, data, tools, and forecasts to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect our environment. To increase observational and technical capabilities we need smart investments to
- [Linguistics](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/linguistics-3/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that
- [DoW Multiple Sclerosis Exploration-Hypothesis Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/dow-multiple-sclerosis-exploration-hypothesis-development-award-2/) - Due: August 13, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) Exploration - Hypothesis Development Award (EHDA) supports the initial exploration of innovative, high-risk, high-gain, and potentially groundbreaking concepts in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research field. The studies supported by this award mechanism are expected to lay the groundwork for future avenues
- [Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/correctness-for-scientific-computing-systems-2/) - Due: August 11, 2026 Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2) is a joint program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The program addresses challenges that are both core to DOE's mission and essential to NSF's mission of ensuring broad scientific progress. The program’s overarching goal is to elevate correctness
- [Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center](https://nta.org/2026/07/15/spinal-cord-injury-sci-model-systems-national-data-and-statistical-center/) - Due: July 29, 2026 The purpose of NIDILRR's Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project (DRRP) grants is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by generating knowledge or developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, especially those with
- [Data Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Mind and Body Interventions](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2014-07-clinical-coordinating-center-for-nccih-multi-site-investigator-initiated-clinical-trials-of-natural-products/) - Due: July 14, 2026 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), utilizing the U24 grant funding mechanism, encourages applications for a collaborating Data Coordinating Center (DCC) application that accompanies an investigator-initiated multi site clinical trial (Phase III and beyond) application submitted under companion PAR-21-243. The DCC application must be specific to the companion Clinical Coordinating Center
- [Clinical Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Natural Products](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/clinical-coordinating-center-for-nccih-multi-site-investigator-initiated-clinical-trials-of-natural-products/) - Due: July 14, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated, multi-site, clinical trials (Phase III and beyond) to study the effects of natural products (i.e. botanicals, probiotics, and products marketed as dietary supplements) in NCCIH designated areas of high research priority. For this NOFO, natural products include promising nutritional
- [Clinical Coordinating Center for NCCIH Multi-Site Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials of Natural Products](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/clinical-coordinating-center-for-nccih-multi-site-investigator-initiated-clinical-trials-of-natural-products-2/) - Due: July 14, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages cooperative agreement applications for investigator-initiated, multi-site, clinical trials (Phase III and beyond) to study the effects of natural products (i.e. botanicals, probiotics, and products marketed as dietary supplements) in NCCIH designated areas of high research priority. For this NOFO, natural products include promising nutritional
- [Mass Market Solutions for Leveraging Robotics and AI Technologies for Home Construction Demonstration](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/mass-market-solutions-for-leveraging-robotics-and-ai-technologies-for-home-construction-demonstration/) - Due: July 13, 2026 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development"s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) expects to release a Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Mass Market Solutions for Leveraging Robotics and AI Technologies for Home Construction Demonstration. This anticipated NOFO is intended to fund demonstration projects that test and scale
- [Kidney Precision Medicine Project Tissue Interrogation Sites](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/kidney-precision-medicine-project-tissue-interrogation-sites/) - Due: July 10, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) requests applications for Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Tissue Interrogation Sites (TIS) to use highly integrated multi-modal analytic pipelines to interrogate human kidney biopsy tissue to discover and define new disease pathways and subgroups that enable precision clinical trials. All KPMP personnel will actively participate
- [NIH SIREN Neurologic Clinical Trials](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/nih-siren-neurologic-clinical-trials/) - Due: July 9, 2026 This announcement (NOFO) encourages applications for multi-center clinical trials focused on neurological emergencies. Successful applicants will collaborate and conduct the trial within the NIH SIREN Network. The NIH SIREN Clinical Coordinating Center (CCC) will work with the successful applicants to implement the proposed trial efficiently and the SIREN Data Coordinating Center
- [AI x SatCom Launch Vehicle](https://nta.org/2026/05/29/ai-x-satcom-launch-vehicle/) - Due: July 9, 2026 AI is reshaping space-based communications, especially as defense, commercial, and space stakeholders prioritize resilience, autonomy, and reliable communications across dynamic and disrupted environments. AI x SatCom Launch Vehicle will identify and accelerate the most promising AI-enabled, space-based communications technologies operating across proliferated and hybrid architectures and connect them directly to the
- [Coccidioidomycosis Collaborative Research Centers](https://nta.org/2026/06/16/coccidioidomycosis-collaborative-research-centers/) - Due: July 9, 2026 The purpose of the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for a Coccidioidomycosis Collaborative Research Centers (CCRC) program. This new initiative will establish highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, research teams to conduct translational and clinical research to support the development of a Valley fever vaccine as outlined in NIAID's Strategic
- [Limited Competition for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development-Extended (ABCD-E) Study-Research Project Sites](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/limited-competition-for-the-adolescent-brain-cognitive-development-extended-abcd-e-study-research-project-sites/) - Due: July 9, 2026 This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for a Limited Competition that will invite applications from eligible organizations to apply. Please see Section III. Eligibility for additional information. In accordance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) standard peer-review processes, the applications will be peer-reviewed, and only meritorious applications will
- [Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms Program](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/prevention-control-and-mitigation-of-harmful-algal-blooms-program-2/) - Due: July 9, 2026 The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Competitive Research Program (NCCOS/CRP) [formerly Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)/Coastal Ocean Program (COP)] is soliciting proposals for the Prevention, Control and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Bloom (PCMHAB) program. The PCMHAB program
- [Next-Generation Consumer Science Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/06/10/next-generation-consumer-science-sprint/) - Due: July 8, 2026 Mondelez International, a global leader in fast moving consumer goods, seeks better insights into consumer sentiment through the usage of next-generation methodologies and technologies. Mondelez International intends to conduct a pilot-scale evaluation later this year. All consumer goods companies rely on understanding the needs and wants of customers. Mondelez International already
- [Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP)-Impact](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/rural-communities-opioid-response-program-rcorp-impact/) - Due: July 8, 2026 The Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Impact funds rural communities to drive measurable improvements in access to integrated, coordinated treatment and recovery services for substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD). Its long-term aim is to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with SUD and enable sustained recovery and
- [Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection](https://nta.org/2026/06/16/great-lakes-restoration-initiative-joint-venture-habitat-restoration-and-protection/) - Due: July 6, 2026 The goal of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is to target the most significant environmental problems in the Great Lakes ecosystem by funding and implementing projects that address these problems. As part of this initiative, the two bird habitat joint ventures that operate in the Great Lakes watershed – the Upper
- [Improving Lake Superior Outflow Regulation and Quantifying Uncertainty](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/improving-lake-superior-outflow-regulation-and-quantifying-uncertainty/) - Due: July 6, 2026 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) invites proposals for a project to conduct a comprehensive uncertainty analysis for new outflow rating equations associated with a critical water control structure on Lake Superior. The primary focus of this funding opportunity is to enhance the accuracy and reliability of discharge measurements, which
- [Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/translational-research-in-maternal-and-pediatric-pharmacology-and-therapeutics-2/) - Due: July 6, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support translational and clinical research to (1) advance precision medicine in pregnant women, lactating women, and children through the development of novel tools, models, and other technologies that could have a direct clinical or health impact; (2) enhance the understanding
- [Advancing HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of the NIDCD](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/advancing-hiv-aids-research-within-the-mission-of-the-nidcd-2/) - Due: July 5, 2026 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate HIV/AIDS research within the scientific mission areas of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIDCD). Applications should address high priority HIV/AIDS research outlined by the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) [https://www.oar.nih.gov/hiv-policy-and-research/research-priorities] in the areas of hearing,
- [Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/cooperative-agreement-for-affiliated-partner-with-the-rocky-mountain-cooperative-ecosystem-studies-unit/) - Due: July 5, 2026 The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research in improving the invasive species habitat tool (INHABIT) to deliver manager requested products to inform invasive species management. The research will be used to further develop the delivery to practitioners, ensuring they have the best available science to
- [Bundibugyo Virus Outbreak Response Vaccines (BundiVx)](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/bundibugyo-virus-outbreak-response-vaccines-bundivx/) - Due: July 2, 2026 The purpose of this RPP is to advance investigational BDBV vaccine candidates leveraging the VSV vaccine platform, which has demonstrated single dose protection in past EBOV outbreaks. Work includes manufacturing process development through production of initial current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Phase 1 clinical trial material (CTM), with a goal of
- [Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/energy-frontier-research-centers-efrcs/) - Due: July 1, 2026 The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program. The purpose of this program is to bring together world-class teams of scientists from universities, DOE national laboratories, and other institutions to perform energy-relevant basic research with a scope and complexity
- [Production and Distribution Facilities for Brain Cell Type-Specific Access Reagents](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/production-and-distribution-facilities-for-brain-cell-type-specific-access-reagents/) - Due: July 1, 2026 This BRAIN Initiative Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support scaled reagent production and distribution facilities involving technologies to access brain cell types. Facilities for production and distribution of these reagents by a broad set of neuroscientists will be encouraged. This NOFO is part of the BRAIN Initiative Armamentarium for
- [Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)](https://nta.org/2026/06/20/energy-frontier-research-centers-efrcs-2/) - Due: July 1, 2026 The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program. The purpose of this program is to bring together world-class teams of scientists from universities, DOE national laboratories, and other institutions to perform energy-relevant basic research with a scope and complexity
- [Advanced Vehicle Survivability](https://nta.org/2026/06/12/advanced-vehicle-survivability/) - Due: June 30, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Training and Readiness Accelerator II (TReXII). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [2026 Industrial Biotech Innovation Prize Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/05/07/2026-industrial-biotech-innovation-challenge/) - Due: June 26, 2026 Breakthrough biology exists. What’s missing is cost-competitive production, industrial integration, and real-world deployment. This challenge calls on innovators to close that gap. The Industrial Biotech Innovation Prize Challenge supports technologies that move beyond lab success into operational systems, advancing scalable production, reducing cost barriers, and enabling adoption across U.S. manufacturing and
- [Data Archives for the BRAIN Initiative](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/data-archives-for-the-brain-initiative/) - June 24, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) solicits applications to develop web-accessible data archives to capture, store, and curate data related to BRAIN Initiative activities. The data archives will work with the research community to incorporate tools that allow users to analyze and visualize the data, but the creation of such tools is
- [Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/pilot-projects-enhancing-utility-and-usage-of-common-fund-data-sets/) - June 23, 2026 Many valuable and widely available data sets have been generated by multiple Common Fund programs. The purpose of this NOFO is to announce the availability of funding to demonstrate and enhance the utility of selected Common Fund (https://commonfund.nih.gov/) data sets, including generating hypotheses and catalyzing discoveries. Award recipients are asked to provide
- [2026 Maritime Manufacturing Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/05/27/2026-maritime-manufacturing-innovation-challenge/) - Due: June 23, 2026 In 2025, the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Challenge launched in response to the Executive Order to Revitalize U.S. Maritime Power, bringing forward emerging technologies positioned to strengthen the future of American shipbuilding and maritime readiness. The inaugural Challenge highlighted the growing role of advanced manufacturing, automation, materials, digital engineering, and industrial innovation
- [Digital Health Technology Derived Biomarkers and Outcome Assessments for Remote Monitoring and Endpoint Development](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/digital-health-technology-derived-biomarkers-and-outcome-assessments-for-remote-monitoring-and-endpoint-development/) - Due: June 22, 2026 The purpose of this proposed Notice of Funding Announcement (NOFO) is to support development of biomarkers or clinical outcomes derived from digital health technology (DHT) for use in clinical trials for remote monitoring as primary or secondary endpoints. To improve clinical impact, increase statistical feasibility, and promote standardization, applicants will be
- [Analytical Validation of a Candidate Biomarker for Neurological or Neuromuscular Disorders](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/digital-health-technology-derived-biomarkers-and-outcome-assessments-for-remote-monitoring-and-endpoint-development-2/) - Due: June 22, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support rigorous analytical validation of method(s) used for measuring biomarkers for neurological and neuromuscular disorders for use in clinical trials or clinical practice. Applicants must justify the unmet need for the biomarker(s) and measurement methods and specify one or two
- [Precision Measurement Grant Program](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/precision-measurement-grant-program/) - Due: June 22, 2026 The Precision Measurement Grant Program (PMGP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for activities to conduct research work in the field of fundamental measurement, testing the basic laws of physics, and/or the determination of fundamental constants, with emphasis on pressing problems or emerging opportunities. Learn More and Apply
- [Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/naval-air-warfare-center-aircraft-division-office-wide-broad-agency-announcement/) - Due: June 22, 2026 The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is interested in receiving white papers for Research and Development projects which offer potential for advancement and improvement of NAWCAD operations. Learn More and Apply
- [Clinical Validation of a Candidate Biomarker for Neurological or Neuromuscular Disorders](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/clinical-validation-of-a-candidate-biomarker-for-neurological-or-neuromuscular-disorders/) - Due: June 22, 2026 The purpose of this Program Announcement (PAR) is to enable clinical validation of strong candidate biomarkers for neurological diseases and conditions. Specifically, the goal of this PAR is to enable the rigorous validation of biomarker measurements within the clinical population of interest to establish the positive and negative predictive values of
- [Combat System Computing Infrastructure Refresh](https://nta.org/2026/05/28/combat-system-computing-infrastructure-refresh/) - Due: June 22, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [Ecosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering-4/) - Due: August 11, 2026 Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation. The primary goal is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for bringing fundamental plasma science investigations to
- [DoW Multiple Sclerosis Investigator-Initiated Research Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/dow-multiple-sclerosis-investigator-initiated-research-award/) - Due: August 13, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) Investigator-Initiated Research Award (IIRA) supports highly rigorous, high-impact research projects that have the potential to make an important contribution to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research, patient care, and/or quality of life. All applications must address at least one of the FY26 MSRP
- [DoW Epilepsy Leveraging Research Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/dow-epilepsy-leveraging-research-award/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The intent of the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Epilepsy Research Program (ERP) Leveraging Research Award is to support basic, translational and/or clinical research that repurposes or expands existing research resources to accelerate the understanding of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) and associated comorbidities. Distinctive Features: The study must adapt an existing cohort, resource,
- [Chemical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/chemical-oceanography-4/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and
- [DoW Epilepsy Idea Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/dow-epilepsy-idea-development-award/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Epilepsy Research Program (ERP) Idea Development Award (IDA) solicits novel research that has the potential to increase understanding of post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) and associated comorbidities to improve quality of life, especially in Service Members, Veterans and/or their care partners. The work should innovatively challenge existing research
- [Physical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/physical-oceanography-4/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the
- [Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network: Small Molecule Drug Discovery and Development of Disorders of the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/blueprint-neurotherapeutics-network-small-molecule-drug-discovery-and-development-of-disorders-of-the-nervous-system/) - Due: August 18, 2026 The Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN) invites applications from neuroscience investigators seeking support to advance their small molecule drug discovery and development projects into the clinic. Participants in the BPN are responsible for conducting all studies that involve disease- or target-specific assays, models, and other research tools and receive funding for all
- [Decision, Risk and Management Sciences](https://nta.org/2026/06/22/decision-risk-and-management-sciences-2/) - Due: August 18, 2026 The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (DRMS) supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge,
- [Safety Innovation Challenge: Energy Control](https://nta.org/2026/04/30/safety-innovation-challenge-energy-control/) - Due: June 19, 2026 Across a broad range of industries and occupations, workers rely on technologies to control hazardous energy, informally known as “Lockout, Tagout” or “LoTo”. These technologies keep workers safe by preventing exposure to dangerous chemical, electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, or thermal energy sources. The National Safety Council’s latest Safety Innovation Challenge aims
- [Arctic Research Opportunities](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/arctic-research-opportunities-4/) - Due: July 15, 2026 The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region.The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process, and/or
- [Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the North Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit](https://nta.org/2026/06/21/cooperative-agreement-for-affiliated-partner-with-the-north-atlantic-coast-cooperative-ecosystem-studies-unit/) - Due: July 5, 2026 The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research collecting and analyzing environmental DNA (eDNA) samples to evaluate the efficacy of detecting small populations of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB; Oryctes rhinoceros) in the Hawaiian Islands. The research will involve sampling environmental DNA from the trunks of palm
- [DoW Breast Cancer, Clinical Research Extension Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/20/dow-breast-cancer-clinical-research-extension-award/) - Due: August 8, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Clinical Research Extension Award supports research that extends the data collection, follow-up, and analysis of breast cancer clinical studies. The intent of this award mechanism is to increase the clinically relevant impact of breast cancer patient participation in clinical studies by
- [DoW Breast Cancer, Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2](https://nta.org/2026/06/19/dow-breast-cancer-breakthrough-award-levels-1-and-2/) - Due: August 8, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Breakthrough Award mechanism supports promising research with high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. All applications must address at least one of the FY26 BCRP overarching challenges or provide adequate justification for exception. Applications must address the
- [DoW Lung Cancer Idea Development Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/19/dow-lung-cancer-idea-development-award/) - Due: September 2, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Lung Cancer Research Program (LCRP) Idea Development Award (IDA) supports conceptually innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate progress toward eradicating deaths and suffering from lung cancer. This mechanism promotes new ideas that are in the early stages
- [DoW Lupus, Idea Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/19/dow-lupus-idea-award/) - Due: August 24, 2026 This funding mechanism supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that could ultimately lead to a critical discovery or major advancement relevant to lupus. The emphasis is on innovation. Research must address at least one of the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Lupus Research Program (LRP) Idea Award (IA) focus areas. This funding mechanism does
- [AI-Enabled Discovery of Broad-Spectrum Small Molecule Inhibitors for Filoviruses](https://nta.org/2026/05/28/ai-enabled-discovery-of-broad-spectrum-small-molecule-inhibitors-for-filoviruses/) - Due: June 17, 2026 The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to conduct market research to identify organizations with capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) for application in the discovery and advancement of broad-spectrum, small-molecule therapeutics targeting filoviruses (e.g., Ebola virus (EBOV), Sudan virus (SUDV), Marburg virus (MARV)). This RFI seeks information regarding technical
- [Maximizing Consortia Membership Benefits](https://nta.org/2026/02/23/maximizing-consortia-membership-benefits/) - Live Date: June 9, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern ATI offers a suite of member benefits as part of a consortia membership. In this webinar we will discuss how to best utilize these benefits including: Which consortia do I join? How do I collaborate? What are the tools at my disposal and how do I
- [Commercial Space at the State Level](https://nta.org/2026/05/23/commercial-space-at-the-state-level/) - Live Date: June 17 When commercial space entrepreneurs pursue external funding, they often rely on private sources, like angels or VCs, or public sector funding from government agencies at the national level. In the modern era of LEO development, however, there is another avenue for financial support: state-level governmental agencies. The Texas Space Commission has
- [BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Instrumentation and Device Technologies for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/brain-initiative-optimization-of-instrumentation-and-device-technologies-for-recording-and-modulation-in-the-nervous-system-2/) - Due: June 16, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks applications to optimize instrumentation and device technologies for recording and modulation of neural cells and circuits, to address major challenges and to enable transformative understanding of dynamic signaling in the central nervous system. It is expected that the proposed technologies and approaches have previously
- [DoW Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial Award](https://nta.org/2026/06/16/dow-multiple-sclerosis-clinical-trial-award/) - Due: August 13, 2026 The fiscal year 2026 (FY26) Multiple Sclerosis Research Program (MSRP) Clinical Trial Award (CTA) supports the rapid implementation of clinical trials with the potential to have a significant impact on the treatment or management of multiple sclerosis. All applications must address at least one of the FY26 MSRP CTA focus areas.
- [BRAIN Initiative: New Concepts and Early-Stage Research for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/brain-initiative-new-concepts-and-early-stage-research-for-recording-and-modulation-in-the-nervous-system/) - Due: June 15, 2026 A central goal of the BRAIN Initiative is to understand how electrical and chemical signals code information in neural circuits and give rise to sensations, thoughts, emotions and actions. While currently available technologies can provide some understanding, they may not be sufficient to accomplish this goal. For example, non-invasive technologies are
- [Consortium for Nuclear Forensics](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/consortium-for-nuclear-forensics/) - Due: June 10, 2026 Direct-fund basic research at universities that complement applied research in nuclear forensics at the DOE National Laboratories to include foundational disciplines of radiochemistry; geochemistry; shock physics; nuclear physics, science and engineering; radiation detector science; nuclear material science engineering; nuclear chemical engineering; modeling, simulation and optimization methods for nuclear applications; and seismology
- [Standardizing Data and Metadata from Wearable Devices](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/standardizing-data-and-metadata-from-wearable-devices/) - Due: June 10, 2026 The purpose of this NOFO is to support the creation of standards and related efforts that will allow researchers to easily access data from personal tracking devices. The awardees will be expected to partner with device manufacturers as well as the researcher community if the effort is going to be successful.
- [Affordable High-Speed Strike](https://nta.org/2026/05/28/affordable-high-speed-strike/) - Due: June 10, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights](https://nta.org/2026/06/10/techconnect-critical-technology-spotlights-2/) - Due: November 18, 2026 The TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights are an open innovation program focused on accelerating breakthrough technologies in alignment with evolving strategic priorities for national security, sustainability, and economic resilience. In 2027, the spotlight is on seven technical categories: space, defense, and mobility; energy and sustainability; electronics and microsystems; biotech and medical; AI
- [SENSEI EO/IR System Tech Refresh for C-UAS](https://nta.org/2026/05/16/sensei-eo-ir-system-tech-refresh-for-c-uas/) - Due: June 9, 2026 This Request for Information (RFI) is in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center for the specific SENSEI topic. The topic sponsor desires to collaborate with EMC² Members and industry to discuss the topic and possibly shape future EMC² Request for Solutions (RFS). Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the
- [Small Arms Orientation Device and STE LTS Indirect Fire](https://nta.org/2026/05/28/small-arms-orientation-device-and-ste-lts-indirect-fire/) - Due: June 9, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Training & Readiness Accelerator II (TReX II). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [Protecting U.S. Critical Energy Investments Through C-UAS and UAS Surveillance Capabilities in Iraq](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/protecting-u-s-critical-energy-investments-through-c-uas-and-uas-surveillance-capabilities-in-iraq/) - Due: June 8, 2026 The Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) announces this funding opportunity to protect American economic interests, personnel, and national security by supporting the Government of Iraq’s (GOI) capabilities to counter unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) threats while simultaneously advancing Iraqi security forces’ capability to protect critical infrastructure. This program should deliver
- [Impact of Initial Influenza Exposure on Immunity in Infants](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/impact-of-initial-influenza-exposure-on-immunity-in-infants/) - Due: June 4, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support the establishment or continuation of longitudinal infant cohorts to determine and compare how initial and repeated natural influenza infections and/or influenza vaccinations shape infant and childhood immunity to future influenza exposures. The goal of this research is to understand
- [Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/preclinical-proof-of-concept-studies-for-rare-diseases/) - Due: June 2, 2026 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) provides funding to conduct efficacy studies in an established rare disease preclinical model to demonstrate that a proposed therapeutic agent warrants further development. In addition to preclinical efficacy, accompanying pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic studies would be supported. Therapeutic agents include small molecules, biologics or biotechnology-derived products.
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights](https://nta.org/2026/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-spotlights/) - Due: May 29, 2026 The TechConnect Critical Technology Spotlights represent six targeted innovation tracks aligned with U.S. national priorities and designed to accelerate breakthroughs in critical domains. Through an open innovation model, each spotlight invites innovators to present transformative solutions, connecting them with federal, private, and corporate funding over $8 billion annually in emerging tech
- [Food-Safe Lubricants for Commercial-Scale Production Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/04/27/food-safe-lubricants-for-commercial-scale-production-sprint/) - Due: May 26, 2026 TechConnect’s client, an international snack and candy producer, seeks innovative food-safe lubricants for use on its confectionary production lines. Proposed solutions must allow for extended manufacturing time without product accumulation on equipment. LEARN MORE AND APPLY
- [NEI Collaborative Clinical Vision Research Project: Resource Center Grant](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/nei-collaborative-clinical-vision-research-project-resource-center-grant/) - Due: May 25, 2026 The NEI uses UG1 cooperative agreement awards to support investigator-initiated large-scale clinical trials, human gene-transfer, stem cell therapy trials, and other complex or high resource- or safety-risk clinical trials. These projects are multifaceted and of high public health significance requiring clear delineation of study organization including roles and responsibilities and require
- [AIDS Research Center on Mental Health and HIV/AIDS](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/aids-research-center-on-mental-health-and-hiv-aids/) - Due: May 25, 2026 The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Division of AIDS Research (DAR) encourages applications for Center Core grants (P30) to support HIV/AIDS Research Centers (ARC). The ARC is intended to provide infrastructure support that facilitates the development of high impact science in HIV/AIDS and mental health that is relevant to the
- [Capabilities and Needs for Future Respiratory and Ocular Protection Systems](https://nta.org/2024/07/26/capabilities-and-needs-for-future-respiratory-and-ocular-protection-systems/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBD This topic aims to provide novel, low-burden masks for the general purpose warfighter utilizing innovative materials and custom manufacturing processes. These materials and processes will make these masks bespoke to users’ physical features and vision, and designed to protect while optimizing mission performance. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the
- [CIND, All States of Matters For Various Chemical Hazards](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/cind-all-states-of-matters-for-various-chemical-hazards/) - Anticipated Release: TBD Chemical indicators; Low-cost, easy to use, ultra-low SWaP modular open system based chemical detector that is widely distributed to the General Forces as an integrated kit for indication of chemical hazards; Provide detection and classification capabilities with increased confidence for traditional, advanced and emerging chemical hazards such as CWAs, NTAs, PBAs, RCAs,
- [Far Forward Biological Sequencing, FFBS, Increment 2](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/far-forward-biological-sequencing-ffbs-increment-2-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBD FFBS Increment 2 will focus on automating the sample preparation process and meeting any key performance parameter thresholds that were not met during the development of FFBS Increment 1. This is a completely separate requirement from FFBS Increment 1. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass
- [Host-Based Diagnostics for Acute Infections](https://nta.org/2026/05/16/host-based-diagnostics-for-acute-infections/) - Due: May 20, 2026 CPE CBRND is conducting essential market research for the Advanced Differential Diagnostics (ADD) program, an existing Program of Record that is developing new diagnostic capabilities in a phased approach. This program is dedicated to identifying and advancing mature diagnostics that utilize the warfighter’s early response to the pathogen. CPE CBRND will
- [Agnostic Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing (mNGS) for Clinical Diagnostics](https://nta.org/2026/05/16/agnostic-metagenomic-next-generation-sequencing-mngs-for-clinical-diagnostics/) - Due: May 20, 2026 CPE CBRND is conducting essential market research for a new initiative dedicated to identifying and advancing mature, portable, and integrated mNGS systems for clinical diagnostics. The program is focused on overcoming technical and regulatory hurdles currently preventing deployment of mNGS as a routine clinical diagnostic tool, particularly in resource-limited or austere
- [2026 Chevron Rapid Engagement Challenge: Break Rocks Better](https://nta.org/2026/05/07/2026-chevron-rapid-engagement-challenge-break-rocks-better/) - Due: May 19, 2026 Chevron wants a bold approach to radically alter how we break rocks. Unconventional thinking can deliver new and innovative solutions allowing them to extract resources more efficiently. The Chevron Rapid Engagement Challenge: Break Rocks Better will connect Chevron to entrepreneurs, researchers, startups and corporations through a fast-paced process to uncover promising
- [Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness (ALACRITY) Research Centers](https://nta.org/2026/03/03/advanced-laboratories-for-accelerating-the-reach-and-impact-of-treatments-for-youth-and-adults-with-mental-illness-alacrity-research-centers/) - Due: May 18. 2026 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) invites applications for centers to support transdisciplinary teams of clinical and mental health services researchers, behavioral scientists, social scientists, health information and communications technologists, health systems engineers, decision scientists, and mental health stakeholders (e.g., service users, family members, clinicians, payers) to engage in high-impact studies that
- [2026 Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Industry and Government Summit](https://nta.org/2025/01/29/2025-modular-open-systems-approach-mosa-industry-and-government-summit/) - September 22-24 | Washington, D.C. Gaylord National Convention Center and Hotel Don't miss the nation's premier Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) Summit and Expo featuring leadership keynotes, panel discussions, technical tracks and live exhibitor demonstrations from a broad array of MOSA experts across the ecosystem. Engage first-hand with top government offices on initiatives as well
- [2025 Space Industry and Government Summit and Expo](https://nta.org/2025/01/29/2025-space-industry-government-summit-expo/) - August 27-29, 2025 | Washington, D.C. Gaylord National Convention Center and Hotel Welcome to the International Space Industry and Government Summit and Expo, where the future of space exploration and innovation take center stage. This premier event brings together leaders from governments, private industry, and international organizations to shape the trajectory of the global space
- [2026 Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo](https://nta.org/2025/01/29/2025-defense-techconnect-innovation-summit-and-expo/) - September 22-24 | National Harbor, MD Gaylord National Convention Center and Hotel Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo unites the innovation community with the US Department of Defense for the benefit of national security and societal advancement. With origins in 2012, the event champions the imperatives established by the National Defense Strategy (NDS) and National
- [2025 Operational Energy & Logistics Summit](https://nta.org/2025/01/29/2025-operational-energy-logistics-summit/) - September 23-25, 2025 | Honolulu, HI Hale Koa Hotel TechConnect, in cooperation with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Navy Operational Energy Office, and U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) are proud to co-develop the 2025 Operational Energy and Logistics Summit, taking place September 23-25, 2025 in Honolulu, HI. Join us as we advance operational energy,
- [Scaling in the OTA Space: Growth Paths for Small and Nontraditional Contractors](https://nta.org/2026/02/23/scaling-in-the-ota-space-growth-paths-for-small-and-nontraditional-contractors/) - Live Date: April 21, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern Join govmates for an ATI education session where we’ll discuss moving from single-project wins to sustained growth. This discussion will include: Leveraging OTA work for follow-on production contracts Building past performance credibility for federal bids Funding growth—cash flow strategies for fast-moving OTA awards CLOSED
- [Cracking the OTA Code: Proven Strategies to Win Your First (or Next) Award](https://nta.org/2026/02/23/webinar-cracking-the-ota-code-proven-strategies-to-win-your-first-or-next-award/) - Live Date: March 3, 2026 at 12 pm Eastern Join gomates and ATI for a discussion on practical, step-by-step guidance for identifying OTA opportunities, crafting competitive proposals, and positioning your business for selection. Throughout this discussion we’ll cover: Where to find OTA solicitations and consortium opportunities How to interpret technical requirements for non-traditional awards Common
- [Harmful Algal Bloom Innovation Challenge: Toxin Detection in Seafood](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/harmful-algal-bloom-innovation-challenge-toxin-detection-in-seafood/) - Due: May 14, 2026 The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Competitive Research Program (NCCOS/CRP) [formerly Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)/Coastal Ocean Program (COP)] is soliciting proposals to drive practical and cost-effective innovations for harmful algal bloom toxin detection in seafood that
- [Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms Program](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/prevention-control-and-mitigation-of-harmful-algal-blooms-program/) - Due: May 14, 2026 The purpose of this document is to advise the public that NOAA/NOS/National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Competitive Research Program (NCCOS/CRP) [formerly Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR)/Coastal Ocean Program (COP)] is soliciting proposals for the Prevention, Control and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Bloom (PCMHAB) program. The PCMHAB program
- [Lithium Battery Abusive Testing Capabilities](https://nta.org/2026/03/10/lithium-battery-abusive-testing-capabilities/) - Due: May 13, 2026 This Request for Information (RFI) is issued by the Expeditionary Missions Consortium – Crane (EMC²) in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center. The Topic Sponsor desires to collaborate with EMC² Members and industry to discuss the topic and possibly shape future EMC² Request for Solutions (RFS). Responding to this opportunity
- [TRMC S&T](https://nta.org/2026/04/02/trmc-st/) - Due: May 11, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Training and Readiness Accelerator II (TREX II). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [Collaboration for Innovative Research on Aircraft Structure (CIRAS)](https://nta.org/2026/03/03/collaboration-for-innovative-research-on-aircraft-structure-ciras/) - Due: May 11, 2026 Collaboration for Innovative Research on Aircraft Structure (CIRAS) The Aerospace Vehicles Division (RQV), Aerospace Systems Directorate (RQ), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is soliciting research in aircraft structural design, analysis, and experimentation, specifically in the following areas: Innovative structural concepts for reducing weight and/or improving performanceGeneration of realistic load and environmental
- [Neuromuscular Junction Micro-Physiological Systems for Botulinum Neurotoxin Potency Measurement and Medical Countermeasures Evaluation](https://nta.org/2026/04/22/neuromuscular-junction-micro-physiological-systems-for-botulinum-neurotoxin-potency-measurement-and-medical-countermeasures-evaluation/) - Due: May 11, 2026 The objective of this RFI is to assess the current landscape of human-relevant neuromuscular junction (NMJ) micro-physiological systems (MPS) and their potential application for botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) detection, potency measurement, and evaluation of medical countermeasure (MCM) neutralizing activity. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV). This
- [Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/translational-research-in-maternal-and-pediatric-pharmacology-and-therapeutics/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support translational and clinical research to (1) advance precision medicine in pregnant women, lactating women, and children through the development of novel tools, models, and other technologies that could have a direct clinical or health impact; (2) enhance the understanding
- [Development and Application of PET and SPECT Imaging Ligands as Biomarkers for Drug Discovery and for Pathophysiological Studies of CNS Disorders](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/development-and-application-of-pet-and-spect-imaging-ligands-as-biomarkers-for-drug-discovery-and-for-pathophysiological-studies-of-cns-disorders/) - Due: May 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites research grant applications that propose the development and evaluation of novel radioligands for positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging in human brain and the incorporation of, pilot or clinical feasibility evaluation from previously collected data in pre-clinical studies.
- [Assay Development and Screening for Discovery of Validated Chemical Hits for Brain Disorders](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/assay-development-and-screening-for-discovery-of-validated-chemical-hits-for-brain-disorders/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The objective of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to stimulate research in 1) discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in studying disease treatment relevant to psychiatric disorders; and 2) to generate new insight into the biology of relevant diseases and processes that have yet
- [Protean](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/protean/) - Due: May 7, 2026 This Research Announcement represents a solicitation for a research thrust, entitled Protean, that will focus on identifying novel ways to restore protein function to targets of chemical threat agents. APPLY
- [Small R01s for Clinical Trials Targeting Diseases within the Mission of NIDDK](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/small-r01s-for-clinical-trials-targeting-diseases-within-the-mission-of-niddk/) - Due: May 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Announcement (NOFO) encourages the submission of pilot and feasibility clinical trials conducted in humans that will lay the foundation for larger clinical trials related to the prevention and/or treatment of diseases and conditions within the mission of NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases).
- [NIDCR Research Grants for Analyses of Existing Genomics Data](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/nidcr-research-grants-for-analyses-of-existing-genomics-data/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The purpose of this NOFO is to announce support for meritorious research projects that address research questions relevant to human dental, oral, or craniofacial (DOC) biology, and diseases and conditions, through analysis of existing and publicly available genomic data, with or without other types of complementary data, using statistical and computational
- [Early Immune System Development and Ontogeny](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/early-immune-system-development-and-ontogeny/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is tofurther elucidate the mechanisms of early immune development in utero, during the early post-natal period and during early childhood in neonates, infants, and children and adolescents with or without in-utero exposure to HIV or Anti-Retroviral Therapeutics (ART).This initiative aims to understand
- [Advancing HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of the NIDCD](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/advancing-hiv-aids-research-within-the-mission-of-the-nidcd/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to stimulate HIV/AIDS research within the scientific mission areas of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIDCD). Applications should address high priority HIV/AIDS research outlined by the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) (https://www.oar.nih.gov/hiv-policy-and-research/research-priorities) in the areas of
- [Priority HIV/AIDS Research within the Mission of NIDDK](https://nta.org/2026/03/03/priority-hiv-aids-research-within-the-mission-of-niddk/) - Due: May 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks to stimulate HIV/AIDS research within the mission of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) that align with the HIV/AIDS research priorities outlined by the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR). These priorities were most recently described in NOT-OD-20-018 UPDATE:
- [HIV Prevention and Alcohol](https://nta.org/2026/03/03/hiv-prevention-and-alcohol/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The NOFO seeks to expand the HIV/AIDS prevention toolkit among alcohol impacted populations with a range of patterns of episodic and long-term use and associated behavioral and biological risks for HIV acquisition. This includes integration of effective prevention and treatment interventions with an understanding of the overarching framework for reducing the
- [NIDCR Small Research Grants for Analyses of Existing Genomics Data](https://nta.org/2026/03/03/nidcr-small-research-grants-for-analyses-of-existing-genomics-data/) - Due: May 7, 2026 The purpose of this NOFO is to announce support for meritorious research projects that address research questions relevant to human dental, oral, or craniofacial (DOC) biology, and diseases and conditions, through analysis of existing and publicly available genomic data, with or without other types of complementary data, using statistical and computational
- [Understanding Expectancies in Cancer Symptom Management](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/understanding-expectancies-in-cancer-symptom-management/) - May 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports research on expectancy-generating factors and measures of their effects on expectancies and subsequent cancer symptom management outcomes; and research to identify moderators of such expectancy effects. Specifically, this NOFO will solicit mechanistic research that aims to understand how and why expectancy effects occur in
- [Development and Testing of Novel Interventions to Improve HIV Prevention, Treatment, and Program Implementation for People Who Use Substances](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/development-and-testing-of-novel-interventions-to-improve-hiv-prevention-treatment-and-program-implementation-for-people-who-use-substances/) - Due: May 7, 2026 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) encourages formative research, intervention development, and pilot-testing of interventions. Primary scientific areas of focus include the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability and safety of novel or adapted interventions that target HIV prevention, treatment or services research for people who use drugs. For the purposes of this NOFO,
- [Expertise in the Inhibition of Glycemic Peaks Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/expertise-in-the-inhibition-of-glycemic-peaks-sprint/) - Due: May 6, 2026 Mondelez, a global leader in snacks, seeks long-term collaboration with US experts having knowledge natural compounds to inhibit glycemic peaks. The goal is to identify and test candidate ingredients allowing the modulation of glycemic response for possible evaluation in finished goods. Closed
- [NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Biospecimen Access](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/nih-brain-development-cohorts-nbdc-biospecimen-access/) - Due: May 5, 2026 The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is the largest longitudinal study of brain development and child health collecting data from more than 11,000 children across the U.S. beginning when they are 9-10 years old and continuing for a decade. In addition to behavioral assessments, youth undergo neuroimaging and provide biospecimens,
- [Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program FY 2026](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/snow-water-supply-forecasting-program-fy-2026/) - Due: May 5, 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation's Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program aims to improve the skill of water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring using emerging technologies to complement existing monitoring techniques and networks. This program was authorized in December 2020 by P.L. 116-260, Sec. 1111.This NOFO invites proposals from eligible applicants to
- [Evidence-Based Formal Methods Integration for Enhanced Software Assurance](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/evidence-based-formal-methods-integration-for-enhanced-software-assurance/) - Due: May 5, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [Innovative Research in Cancer Nanotechnology](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/innovative-research-in-cancer-nanotechnology/) - Due: May 4, 2026 Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) encourages applications promoting transformative discoveries in cancer biology and/or oncology through the use of nanotechnology. Proposed projects should address major barriers in cancer biology and/or oncology using nanotechnology and should emphasize mechanistic studies toward fundamental understanding of nanomaterial and/or
- [Modeling the Gut Microbiota of Child Populations Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/04/06/modeling-the-gut-microbiota-of-child-populations-sprint/) - Due: May 4, 2026 Mondelez, a global leader in fast-moving consumer goods, seeks long-term collaboration with US-based research partners possessing adolescent microbiome data. The goal is to utilize models generated from that data to understand metabolic processes in support of future clinical trials. Questions about this project? Contact us at challenges@techconnect.org Closed
- [Rapid Antibody Production for Immunoassay Diagnostics (RAPID)](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/rapid-antibody-production-for-immunoassay-diagnostics-rapid-2/) - Due: April 30, 2026 Through the Rapid Antibody Production for Immunoassay Diagnostics (RAPID) RPP, BARDA seeks to support advanced research and development of rapid antibody and other protein-based molecular recognition reagent generation platforms to enable timely production of immunoassay-ready reagents for diagnostic use. The objective is to establish flexible, end-to-end systems capable of generating high-performance
- [Expertise in GLP-1 Secretion through Food Ingredients Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/04/01/expertise-in-glp-1-secretion-through-food-ingredients-sprint/) - Due: April 29, 2026 Mondelez, a global fast-moving consumer goods company, seeks U.S.-based expertise in the stimulation of GLP-1 response in adults through food ingredients. SMEs will assist with the identification and analysis of ingredients for possible future commercial integration. Closed
- [Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/safety-security-and-privacy-of-open-source-ecosystems/) - Due: April 28, 2026 Vulnerabilities in an open-source product and/or its continuous development, integration and deployment infrastructure can potentially be exploited to attack any user (human, organization, and/or another product/entity) of the product. To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of open-source ecosystems (OSEs), NSF is launching theSafety, Security, and
- [Cognitive Neuroscience](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/cognitive-neuroscience-3/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposal also typically strengthen the field through,
- [Biological Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/biological-oceanography-3/) - Due: August 17, 2026 The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecologyin environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes.Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or oceanography, as
- [Ecosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2026/04/28/ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering-3/) - Due: August 11, 2026 Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation. The primary goal of the ECosystem forLeadingInnovation inPlasmaScience andunderline;">Engineering (ECLIPSE) program is to identify and capitalize on
- [Analytics Engine Platform](https://nta.org/2026/04/09/analytics-engine-platform/) - Due: April 24, 2026 JPM CBRN Integrated Early Warning is developing AI/ML models to monitor physiological status, predict CBRN-related effects, and support Warfighter tactical decision making, readiness, and recovery. JPM CBRN Integrated Early Warning also seeks to develop a unified, open data architecture and algorithm ecosystem to standardize data collection, storage, and streamline the development,
- [Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Strengthening Agricultural Systems](https://nta.org/2026/04/07/agriculture-and-food-research-initiative-strengthening-agricultural-systems/) - Due: April 23, 2026 The long-term goal of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative - Strengthening Agricultural Systems (SAS) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to help transform the U.S. food and agricultural system to increase agricultural production while enhancing farmer prosperity. Achieving this goal will require transdisciplinary approaches to address current and future food
- [Assessing Snacking Satisfaction through Multidisciplinary Insights Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/03/24/assessing-snacking-satisfaction-through-multidisciplinary-insights-sprint/) - Due: April 21, 2026 Mondelez, a multinational snack manufacturer, seeks insights into drivers of consumer satisfaction with foods by exploring the intersection of behavioral science, nutrition and consumer experience. Individuals and organizations with significant experience in the physiological and psychological aspects of food / eating behavior are highly sought. Email questions to challenges@techconnect.org. CLOSED
- [Prophylaxis in Advanced Development](https://nta.org/2026/04/02/prophylaxis-in-advanced-development/) - Due: April 17, 2026 CPE CBRND is conducting essential market research for the Prophylaxis in Advanced Development (PAD) program, a new initiative expected to launch in Fiscal Year 2028. This program is dedicated to identifying and advancing high-impact innovative prophylactic candidates that can provide reliable, mission-enabling protection for our military personnel against both endemic and
- [Host Directed Medical Countermeasures](https://nta.org/2026/04/09/host-directed-medical-countermeasures/) - Due: April 17, 2026 CPE CBRND is conducting essential market research for the Host-Directed Therapeutics (HD TX) program, a new initiative expected to launch in Fiscal Year 2027. This program is dedicated to identifying and advancing mature, threat-agnostic MCMs that strengthen the warfighter’s own physiological systems. We are seeking collaboration with industry who are developing
- [Host Directed Therapeutics for the Prevention of Progression to ARDS](https://nta.org/2026/04/09/host-directed-therapeutics-for-the-prevention-of-progression-to-ards/) - Due: April 15, 2026 The objective of this SSN / RFI is to better refine the requirements for host directed therapeutics for the prevention of progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in support of BARDA’s Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division (IEIDD). BARDA seeks Contractor(s) to support the continuation of the ARDS Preparedness and
- [Biomining](https://nta.org/2026/04/09/biomining/) - Due: April 15, 2026 DTRA RD-CXN seeks new approaches to augment the suite of tools available to end users conducting environmental monitoring and sampling. The desired end-state capability is a software prototype that shall facilitate the precise design and engineering of microbial consortia or enzymes with targeted metabolic properties, informed by a mechanistic understanding of
- [HARMONY: Human-Centric Analytics for Resilient & Modernized Power sYstems](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/harmony-human-centric-analytics-for-resilient-modernized-power-systems/) - Due: April 9, 2026 HARMONY: Human-Centric Analytics for Resilient & Modernized Power sYstems This NOFO aims to enhance grid reliability and resilience in the face of growing uncertainties and in the age of big data to accelerate pathways towards DOE grid modernization goals. Successful implementation of projects will enable rigorous quantification of risks and uncertainties
- [Improved Tactical Aviation Armament System](https://nta.org/2026/04/02/improved-tactical-aviation-armament-system/) - Due: April 9, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Expeditionary Missions Consortium - Crane (EMC2). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [Patient Safety Prize](https://nta.org/2026/02/10/patient-safety-prize/) - Due: April 7, 2026 Building on its long-standing commitment to improve lives and communities, the Elevance Health Foundation recently launched a new initiative: Community Action Leadership. This initiative brings together external thought leaders from across a range of disciplines. Through their collective expertise and resources, the Foundation is addressing large-scale community health needs and incentivizing
- [Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/fire-science-innovations-through-research-and-education-2/) - Due: April 7, 2026 The Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) program invites innovative multidisciplinary and multisector investigations focused on convergent research and education activities in wildland fire. All areas of science, engineering, and education supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation are included in this program. Projects developed by a wide array
- [Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning](https://nta.org/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-formal-methods-and-mathematical-reasoning-2/) - Due: February 5, 2026 The Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing) program seeks tosupport research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery. Mathematical reasoning is a central ability of human intelligence that plays an important role in knowledge discovery.
- [Chemical Screening and Optimization Facility](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/chemical-screening-and-optimization-facility/) - Due: April 3, 2026 Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. There is a critical need for fertility regulation methods that fit the needs of women and men throughout their reproductive lives. Concurrent with this, there is a critical need to facilitate the development of new reproductive health related therapies. This
- [Feed the Future Innovation Labs](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/feed-the-future-innovation-labs/) - Due: April 3, 2026 The Department of State invites eligible applicants for Feed the Future Innovation Labs to advance global food security in alignment with U.S. policy through targeted research that meets one or both of the following core objectives: (1) Advances agricultural science and research to increase productivity, mitigate threats to production systems, and
- [Collaborative Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/03/06/collaborative-challenge/) - Due: April 3, 2026 This solicitation, issued by the CWMD Consortium Manager (CM), Advanced Technology International (ATI), represents a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) for the FY 2026 “CWMD Collaborative Challenge” to encourage and fund collaborative innovation among CWMD Consortium members through non-dilutive grant awards supporting joint technical projects aligned with the CWMD mission areas
- [Sensor Systems](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/sensor-systems/) - Due: March 30, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the NSTIC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below and a program
- [2026 MOSA Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/12/18/2025-mosa-innovation-challenge/) - Due: March 27, 2026 Twenty-first century air mobility demands twenty-first century technology. Join us for the MOSA Innovation Challenge, where more than 20 innovators will pitch cutting-edge communications, computing, and operations technologies to a distinguished panel of military, industry, and investment leaders. The top innovator will receive a crystal award and national recognition as the
- [Commercialization Grant](https://nta.org/2026/03/06/commercialization-grant/) - Due: March 27, 2026 The Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC) was formed in response to the government’s expressed interest to establish an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with an eligible entity or group of entities, to include industry, academic, and not-for-profit partners, for advanced development efforts to support the Department of Defense’s (DoD) medical, pharmaceutical and
- [Sourcewell Ventures Civic Solutions Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/01/21/sourcewell-ventures-civic-solutions-challenge/) - Due: March 26, 2026 From the farthest corners of the United States and everywhere in between, governments and educational agencies face an increasing need to understand, manage, and utilize the vast amounts of data at their disposal. Balancing the demands for high-quality services with limited staff, time and budgets, those governments and agencies often find
- [Deployed Warfighter Protection (DWFP) Program for the Protection of Deployed Military Personnel from Threats Posed by Arthropod Disease Vectors](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/deployed-warfighter-protection-dwfp-program-for-the-protection-of-deployed-military-personnel-from-threats-posed-by-arthropod-disease-vectors/) - Due: March 25, 2026 The Deployed Warfighter Protection (DWFP) Program’s mission is to protect deployed military personnel from arthropod vectors of medically relevant disease pathogens, including (but not limited to) arthropod disease vectors of tick-borne pathogens and mosquito-borne arboviruses, as well as nuisance biting arthropods and emerging arthropod threats such as the New World Screwworm
- [Health Security Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/health-security-innovation-challenge-2/) - Due: March 23, 2026 Global health threats continue to proliferate and evolve, threatening armed forces and civilians alike. As a result, the need for cutting-edge technologies to enhance and expand prevention, detection, treatment, and protection efforts is ever-present. The 2026 Health Security Innovation Prize Challenge invites entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, SMEs and innovators to propose their
- [Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals](https://nta.org/2026/03/10/domestic-processing-capabilities-of-critical-minerals/) - Due: March 20, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below
- [Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV (SCORCH) Program: Data Mining and Functional Validation](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/single-cell-opioid-responses-in-the-context-of-hiv-scorch-program-data-mining-and-functional-validation/) - Due: March 19, 2026 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support data mining of single cell data sets to identify cell types, transcripts, enhancers, or transcriptional networks that play a role in HIV/antiretroviral therapy (ART) or Substance Use Disorder (SUD)-relevant molecular responses, and/or to support functional validation studies (e.g. epigenomic
- [Rapid Prototyping of Asymmetric Warfare Systems](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/rapid-prototyping-of-asymmetric-warfare-systems/) - Due: March 19, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the NSTIC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below and a program
- [Expertise in Sugar-Free Candy and Coatings Sprint](https://nta.org/2026/02/18/expertise-in-sugar-free-candy-and-coatings-sprint/) - Due: March 19, 2026 A multi-billion-dollar global candy manufacturing company wants to optimize their production of sugar-free candies and gums. The company seeks experts in the chemistry of sugar-free candies and coatings as well as the impacts of application and processing technologies. The production of high-quality sugar-free gums and candies relies on specialized knowledge and
- [EOSS to Support MK34 and MK48 GWSs](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/eoss-to-support-mk34-and-mk48-gwss/) - Due: March 18. 2026 This Request for Information (RFI) is issued by the Expeditionary Missions Consortium – Crane (EMC²) in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center. This program has been initiated to create a competitive environment for the replacement of the MK20 MOD 1 Electro-Optic/Infrared (EO/IR) Sight System (EOSS) whose predecessors were MK20 MOD
- [HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/hiv-vaccine-research-and-design-hivrad-program/) - Due: March 13, 2026 The HIV Vaccine Research and Design (HIVRAD) Program supports projects that address hypotheses crucial to the design of an efficacious HIV/AIDS prophylactic vaccine. An application submitted in response to this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) should include hypothesis-supporting data that the research has advanced past the exploratory stage, including preliminary immunogenicity
- [Future Interceptor](https://nta.org/2026/03/06/future-interceptor/) - Due: March 11, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [Advanced Sensor Capabilities and Fire Control Technologies](https://nta.org/2026/03/06/advanced-sensor-capabilities-and-fire-control-technologies/) - Due: March 11, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium (AMTC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [Three-Dimensional Materials for Agnostic seNsing (3D MAN)](https://nta.org/2026/03/10/three-dimensional-materials-for-agnostic-sensing-3d-man/) - Due: March 16, 2026 DTRA RD-CB in support of the CPE CBRND seeks to develop 3-Dimensional Materials for Agnostic seNsing (3D MAN) technologies that shall provide a self-indicating response (e.g., colorimetric, optical, electrical, etc. responses) to alert the end user of the presence of chemical and biological (CB) threats, such as Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs),
- [Production of Drug Substances and Drug Products at Commercial Scale – Anti-Microbials and Large Volume Parenterals](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/production-of-drug-substances-and-drug-products-at-commercial-scale-anti-microbials-and-large-volume-parenterals/) - Due: March 9, 2026 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III Program is interested in submissions that strengthen the Nation’s security of supply for at least one (1) key starting material (KSM), drug substance, and/or drug product identified within the FDA’s List of Essential Medicines, with a preference
- [Design Manufacturing Processes for New Materials](https://nta.org/2026/03/06/design-manufacturing-processes-for-new-materials/) - Due: March 10, 2026 The Government acquires and uses many different types of energy storage systems that provide very specific electrical power levels and voltages by relying on specialty materials, components, and subassemblies. These systems are sometimes inadequate to accommodate growing energy storage demand, have manufacturing weaknesses, or reliance on foreign materials. A web search
- [Mitochondrial-associated Mechanisms of Neuropathological and Immunodeficient Aging in the Context of HIV and SUD](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/mitochondrial-associated-mechanisms-of-neuropathological-and-immunodeficient-aging-in-the-context-of-hiv-and-sud/) - Due: March 10, 2026 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites applications to investigate protective and pathogenic mechanisms at the nexus of mitochondrial function and aging in the context of HIV infection, ART and exposure to addictive substances. Basic and preclinical research projects are appropriate. Substances of interest include, but not limited to: synthetic and
- [Autonomous Systems to Reduce Risk Warfighters Encounter](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/autonomous-systems-to-reduce-risk-warfighters-encounter/) - Due: March 9, 2026 This Request for Information (RFI) is issued by the Expeditionary Missions Consortium – Crane (EMC²) in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center for the specific topic area identified below. The Topic Sponsor desires to collaborate with EMC² Members and industry to discuss the topic and possibly shape future EMC² Request
- [SENSEI Data Fusion Correlator](https://nta.org/2026/02/17/sensei-data-fusion-correlator/) - Due: March 6, 2026 This Request for Information (RFI) is issued by the Expeditionary Missions Consortium – Crane (EMC²) in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center. SENSEI is an integrated multi-sensor, multi-weapon, multi-domain counter-unmanned system (C-UxS); its objective is to detect-to-defeat Counter-small Unmanned (Air, Ground, Surface, Undersea) System (C-sUxS) to protect Navy/DoD critical infrastructure
- [Engineering Improved Stem Cell-Derived Islet Cells for Replacement Therapies](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/engineering-improved-stem-cell-derived-islet-cells-for-replacement-therapies/) - Due: March 7, 2026 This funding opportunity is designed to support research in understanding how to engineer intrinsic characteristics of stem cell-derived islet cell products that can result in improved cell replacement therapy outcomes. Unlike cadaveric human islets, stem cell-derived islet cell products are generated from well-defined and highly controlled cell bank sources. Their banking,
- [NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/nlm-research-grants-in-biomedical-informatics-and-data-science/) - Due: March 5, 2026 The National Library of Medicine (NLM) supports innovative research and development in biomedical informatics and data science. This funding opportunity focuses on biomedical discovery and data-powered health, integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness to
- [Analytical and Clinical Validation of Biomarkers for Alzheimers Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD)](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/analytical-and-clinical-validation-of-biomarkers-for-alzheimers-disease-ad-and-ad-related-dementias-adrd/) - Due: March 5, 2026 The goal of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to accelerate the establishment of effective and reliable biomarkers of Alzheimers disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) for usein therapy/medical product discovery and development, clinical trials and/or clinical practice. Specifically, this NOFO willsupport analytical and/or clinical validation of a biomarker, composite
- [Stimulate Utilization of Plentiful Energy in Rocks through High-Temperature Original Technologies](https://nta.org/2026/03/02/stimulate-utilization-of-plentiful-energy-in-rocks-through-high-temperature-original-technologies/) - Due: March 5, 2026 The Stimulate Utilization of Plentiful Energy in Rocks through High-temperature Original Technologies (SUPERHOT) program aims to boost baseload power supply by enabling future power production from superhot geothermal resources, defined as temperatures greater than 375 °C and pressures greater than 22 megapascals (MPa). The goal of the SUPERHOT program is to
- [Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/coupling-energetics-and-dynamics-of-atmospheric-regions-2/) - Due: March 5, 2026 The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program supports research to increase our understanding of the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere. Projects explore coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. The research topics include
- [NSF/CASIS Transport Phenomena Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/nsf-casis-transport-phenomena-research-at-the-international-space-station-to-benefit-life-on-earth-2/) - Due: March 4, 2026 The Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) and the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing innovation (CMMI) in the Engineering Directorate (ENG) and the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) are partnering with
- [Global Tactical Edge Acquisition Directorate (G-TEAD), Rapid Experimentation and Acquisition Process (REAP)](https://nta.org/2026/02/25/global-tactical-edge-acquisition-directorate-g-tead-rapid-experimentation-and-acquisition-process-reap/) - Due: March 4, 2026 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in TREXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below and a program representative
- [RRPV: Assay Development for Superior Understanding of Response and Efficacy](https://nta.org/2025/12/01/rrpv-assay-development-for-superior-understanding-of-response-and-efficacy/) - Due: February 24, 2026 The ASSURE program aims to develop innovative, multiplexed, high-throughput, scalable, and sample sparing assays that provide comprehensive evaluation of an individual’s immune status as a response to either infection or vaccination. This program seeks to de-risk the development of novel assay platform technologies with the ultimate goal of establishing new, qualified
- [The OTA Advantage: Turning Flexibility Into Competitive Edge](https://nta.org/2026/02/23/the-ota-advantage-turning-flexibility-into-competitive-edge/) - Live Date: September 15, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern OTAs stand proudly by their characteristics of speed and flexibility. Join govmates and ATI as we talk about hto leverage the unique benefits of OTAs—speed, flexibility, and innovation—to outmaneuver traditional contractors. Key takeaways of this discussion will include: Mapping your solutions to rapid prototyping needs Understanding
- [Mastering the OTA Pitch: Communicating Innovation to Federal Decision Makers](https://nta.org/2026/02/23/mastering-the-ota-pitch-communicating-innovation-to-federal-decision-makers/) - Live Date: August 18, 2026 at 12 PM Eastern As the expert in your field, you hold the keys to strategic innovation. Join ATI and govmates as we explore the art of crafting winning technical and business narratives that resonate with program managers and evaluators. Key takeaways of this discussion include:c Understanding your audience: technical
- [Biological Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/biological-oceanography-2/) - Due: February 17, 2026 The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes. Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or
- [Chemical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/chemical-oceanography-2/) - Due: February 17, 2026 The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and
- [Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/ocean-technology-and-interdisciplinary-coordination/) - Due: February 16, 2026 The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community. Closed
- [Capital Readiness Program](https://nta.org/2026/01/26/capital-readiness-program/) - Due: February 13, 2026 Navigate the fundraising process with confidence. This 5-day intensive is designed to equip health tech startups with the expert insights and tangible skills needed to approach institutional investors with clarity and credibility. Closed
- [Consolidated Nerve Agent Treatment System](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/consolidated-nerve-agent-treatment-system-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY26 FDA approval of a multi-drug autoinjector to reduce logistical burden on the warfighter and increase survivability. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage
- [Advanced System for Protection and Integrated Reduction of Encumbrances, ASPIRE](https://nta.org/2024/09/09/advanced-system-for-protection-and-integrated-reduction-of-encumbrances-aspire-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY26 ASPIRE will provide respiratory and ocular protection against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear threats that allows near normal operations by minimizing or eliminating physical and psychological burden and increasing Warfighter lethality. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout
- [Capabilities and Needs for Future Respiratory and Ocular Protection Systems](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/capabilities-and-needs-for-future-respiratory-and-ocular-protection-systems-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY25 This topic aims to provide novel, low-burden masks for the general purpose warfighter utilizing innovative materials and custom manufacturing processes. These materials and processes will make these masks bespoke to users’ physical features and vision, and designed to protect while optimizing mission performance. This opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons
- [Synthetic Binder Prediction, Synthesis, and Assay Development](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/cwmd-synthetic-binder-prediction-synthesis-and-assay-development/) - Anticipated Release: Q3FY25 This effort will solicit multidisciplinary teams for a competition involving prediction of synthetic binders, synthesis of identified binders, and assay development to include, but not limited to, lateral flow assays (LFAs) with the binders. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous
- [Biocontainment Isolation System - Enhanced Biodefense (BCIS-ENBD)](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/biocontainment-isolation-system-enhanced-biodefense-bcis-enbd/) - Anticipated Release: Q3FY25 BCIS-ENBD will provide a ground-based isolation area for personnel infected or suspected of infection of biological organism or infectious disease and allows medical staff to monitor and/or treat while decreasing the risk of infecting other patients and staff. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD)
- [Diagnostic Platforms for Agnostictoxin Detections](https://nta.org/2024/07/23/diagnostic-platforms-for-agnostictoxin-detections/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q2FY25 Develop diagnostic and detection assays, platforms, or devices to sense exposures of emerging toxins, to include naturally occurring (e.g. marine, fungal, snake venom, small molecules) or synthetically-derived threats. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if
- [Novelbioaerosol Detection and Identification Technologies](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/novelbioaerosol-detection-and-identification-technologies/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q2FY25 Novel approaches to bioaerosol detection and identification that implement reliable, accurate and timely sampling mechanisms in a diverse range of operational environments. Aim to address current technical challenges such as false positive results, interference from environmental artifacts, and lack of automated & remote sampling approaches. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in
- [VADER VaporAgent Demasking –Easily Readable](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/vaporagent-demasking-easily-readable/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q2FY25 VaporAgent Demasking –Easily Readable Develop low-burden, low-cost detection capabilities for chemical threat vapors to facilitate doffing PPE as part of the M256A2 modernization effort. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may
- [Autonomous Decontamination System (ADS) / PPMT ](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/autonomous-decontamination-system-ads-ppmt/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q1FY25 The Autonomous Decontamination System program will provide a semi-autonomous supported capability that relies on precision detection capabilities, modernized decontaminants, and robotics to allow a CBRN deconsquad to provide platoon level thorough decontamination on critical mission equipment, infrastructure, and terrain. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
- [Agent Directed Therapeutic (ADTX) FY25 OTA](https://nta.org/2024/07/26/agent-directed-therapeutic-adtx-fy25-ota/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q1FY25 New start OTA award for ADTX Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for
- [Shipboard Isolation System (SIS) / PPMT](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/shipboard-isolation-system-sis-ppmt/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 The SIS program provides the capability to temporarily isolate or quarantine personnel to prevent the spread of infection and safely evacuate patients for transfer off the ship. Capability will be used on multiple Navy ship types to contain and medically monitor/treat infectious disease patients while protecting embarked crew and personnel. Responding to
- [Therapeutics Capability Area](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/therapeutics-capability-area/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY24 OR Q4FY24 Multiple Topics TBD—Possible 3 or 4 The goal of the Therapeutics Capability Area is to develop lead candidate medical treatments and pharmaceuticals that, when administered after exposure to a biological agent or toxin, mitigate or curtail the effects of that exposure and sustain forces operating in a bio- warfare hazard
- [Mature Microphysiological System To Directly Compare To Well-Characterized Animal Model Results](https://nta.org/2024/07/23/mature-microphysiological-system-to-directly-compare-to-well-characterized-animal-model-results/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 Develop a microphysiological system that realistically mimics human physiological responses to threat exposures for rapid discovery of diagnostic biomarkers. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we
- [Development of Novel, Broad Spectrum Countermeasures, and enabling capabilities for Toxin Exposure](https://nta.org/2024/07/26/development-of-novel-broad-spectrum-countermeasures-and-enabling-capabilities-for-toxin-exposure/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 Prophylactic and therapeutic medical countermeasures for exposure to naturally occurring, synthetic and/or aerosolized toxins (excluding botulinum and ricin). Efforts would aim to focus on advancing the discovery of: Enabling capabilities for activity (i.e., potency) and characterization assays, animal models and related hurtles in development, Identification of toxin and/or host-based targets common
- [Prototype MCMs to address the therapeutic indications of the Warfighter exposure to viral and bacterial biothreat agents](https://nta.org/2024/07/26/prototype-mcms-to-address-the-therapeutic-indications-of-the-warfighter-exposure-to-viral-and-bacterial-biothreat-agents/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 The prioritizations on broad-spectrum direct-acting antivirals (nucleoside/nucleotide-like compounds and combination therapies) and host-directed broad-spectrum antivirals and antibacterials such as molecules that target host signaling pathways, are involved in entry and replication, epigenetic modifications in the host, and modulation of host response. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN
- [Development of Alternate Large Animal Models For Biothreats (Viral and Toxin) and Chemical Threats](https://nta.org/2024/07/26/development-of-alternate-large-animal-models-for-biothreats-viral-and-toxin-and-chemical-threats/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 Development of alternate large animal models for biothreats (viral and toxin) and chemical threats. Due to the limited supply of non-human primates, the CBDP is investing in alternative models for threat characterization and medical countermeasure testing. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous
- [ChemDx Expansion](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/chemdx-expansion/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY24 Develop a diagnostic prototype strip, compatible with the ChemDx device, able to diagnose opioid exposure. Additional test strips able to differentiate between bacterial vs. viral infection, pre-symptomatic, contagiousness, or disease severity may also be considered. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout
- [Vaccines Capability Area](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/vaccines-capability-area/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY24 OR Q4FY24 Multiple Topics TBD—Possible 3 or 4 The goal of the Vaccines Capability Area is to conduct research in order to develop lead candidate vaccines and pretreatments that can be administered before exposure to provide both specific and broad-spectrum protection against validated biological agents. Categories of threat agents addressed in this
- [Draft SOO: Operationalizing Novel Technologies for Advanced Rapid Generation of Effective MCMs](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/draft-soo-operationalizing-novel-technologies-for-advanced-rapid-generation-of-effective-mcms/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY23 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking to establish an integrator for evaluating innovative medical countermeasure (MCM) technologies to meet critical unmet needs in combating CBRN threats. Staying ahead of an evolving threat landscape requires incorporating novel approaches to ensure a robust,
- [AI for Grid Resilience and Security Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/01/16/ai-for-grid-resilience-and-security-challenge/) - Due: February 10, 2026 The intersection of AI, critical infrastructure, and energy grids are a symbiotic necessity, where AI serves as both the primary driver of new electricity demand and the essential tool for managing a complex and secure critical infrastructure. Inspired by the Department of Energy’s emerging Genesis Mission, this Challenge invites innovators to
- [Algorithms for Modern Power Systems](https://nta.org/2026/01/06/algorithms-for-modern-power-systems-2/) - Due: February 9, 2026 The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science
- [High-efficiency Nitrogen Oxidation (HNO3)](https://nta.org/2026/01/06/high-efficiency-nitrogen-oxidation-hno3/) - Due: February 5, 2026 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the foundational technologies to enable high-rate, energy efficient, decentralized nitric acid manufacturing to protect critical supply chains in the defense industrial base and redefine energetics manufacturing in contested logistics environments. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary
- [Bio In Space Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2026/01/20/bio-in-space-innovation-challenge/) - Due: February 5, 2026 Transforming Health and Biotech at the Edge of Space TechConnect seeks breakthrough technologies that leverage space and microgravity to advance development and commercialization in biotechnology, human health, and advanced biomaterials. Share your innovation with leading investors and key stakeholders from government and industry. Areas of Interest: Microgravity for Drug Development Microgravity-enabled
- [Designing Synthetic Cells Beyond the Bounds of Evolution](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/designing-synthetic-cells-beyond-the-bounds-of-evolution/) - Due: February 2, 2026 Because of recent technological advances in synthetic biology and bioengineering, researchers are now able to tailor cells and cell-like systems for a variety of basic and applied research purposes. The goal of this solicitation is to support research that (1) develops cell-like systems to identify the minimal requirements for the processes
- [Perception, Action & Cognition](https://nta.org/2026/01/06/perception-action-cognition-2/) - Due: February 2, 2026 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [Cognitive Neuroscience](https://nta.org/2026/01/06/cognitive-neuroscience-2/) - Due: February 2, 2026 The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposal also typically strengthen the field through,
- [Mechanisms for Amplification of fusion Reaction Rates in Solids (MARRS)](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/mechanisms-for-amplification-of-fusion-reaction-rates-in-solids-marrs/) - Due: March 12, 2026 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in exploring and implementing mechanisms that amplify and increase the rates of nuclear fusion reactions in solids at and near room temperature. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is
- [Collaborative Research Using Biosamples and/or Data from Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Studies](https://nta.org/2026/02/03/collaborative-research-using-biosamples-and-or-data-from-type-1-diabetes-clinical-studies/) - Due: March 8, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for studies of type 1 diabetes etiology and pathogenesis using data and samples from clinical trials and studies. This opportunity is intended to fund investigative teams collaborating to answer important questions about disease mechanisms leading to improved prevention of type 1 diabetes. Apply
- [Developmental Sciences](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/developmental-sciences/) - Due: January 30, 2026 The Developmental Sciences program supports research that addresses developmental processes within the domains of perceptual, cognitive, social, emotional, language, and motor development across the lifespan by working with any appropriate populations for the topics of interest including infants, children, adolescents, adults (including aging populations), and non-human animals. The program also supports
- [RRPV: New Vaccine Platforms](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/rrpv-new-vaccine-platforms/) - Due: January 30, 2026 The objective of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, and other stakeholders to assist BARDA in identifying, and understand the development maturity of, vaccine platform technologies that (1) are safe and effective across a broad range of different known infectious disease threats and (2) can enable efficient development
- [Collaborations Advancing Rapid Load Additions (CARLA)](https://nta.org/2026/01/07/collaborations-advancing-rapid-load-additions-carla/) - Due: January 30, 2026 U.S. electricity demand is projected to grow significantly in the next 5-10+ years, driven by data center expansion and the rise of AI applications, domestic manufacturing growth, and electrification of transport, industry, and buildings. DOE is addressing industry and public concerns about powering this demand growth by leveraging the full set
- [Dynamic and Adaptable Infrastructure for Drug Development and Outreach to Aid the Research Community in Advancing Medication Repurposing and Repositioning Efforts for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs)](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/dynamic-and-adaptable-infrastructure-for-drug-development-and-outreach-to-aid-the-research-community-in-advancing-medication-repurposing-and-repositioning-efforts-for-substance-use-disorders-suds/) - Due: January 28, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity seeks applications to establish and operate a dynamic and adaptable drug development infrastructure to support the research community. The aim is to strengthen and expand the substance use disorder (SUD) drug development pipeline by accelerating the evaluation and validation of repurposed and repositioned drugs. The Center
- [Biomedical Technology Optimization and Dissemination Center](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/biomedical-technology-optimization-and-dissemination-center/) - Due: January 27, 2026 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for NIGMS Biomedical Technology Optimization and Dissemination (BTOD) Centers to support late-stage technology optimization and sustainable dissemination of the technology to the wider biomedical research community. A BTOD Center should be at the leading edge of its field with respect to both technology development
- [BioHealth Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/09/30/biohealth-innovation-challenge/) - Due: January 22, 2026 Located in the heart of the Western United States, Las Vegas provides convenient access to nearby markets and offers several state and local tax incentives. There is also ample opportunity for partnerships within the community. Las Vegas has a strong backbone of biotech research through the region’s higher education institutions, including
- [BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Instrumentation and Device Technologies for Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/brain-initiative-optimization-of-instrumentation-and-device-technologies-for-recording-and-modulation-in-the-nervous-system/) - Due: January 20, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks applications to optimize instrumentation and device technologies for recording and modulation of neural cells and circuits, to address major challenges and to enable transformative understanding of dynamic signaling in the central nervous system. It is expected that the proposed technologies and approaches have previously
- [Decision, Risk and Management Sciences](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/decision-risk-and-management-sciences/) - Due: January 20, 2026 The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (DRMS) supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge,
- [National Safety Challenge: Workplace Fatigue](https://nta.org/2025/10/28/national-safety-challenge-workplace-fatigue/) - Due: January 16, 2026 Fatigue is more than just “tired”; it’s your body’s response to inadequate sleep, mental or physical stressors, or a lack of recovery time, among other causes. Fatigue can manifest in a variety of ways including cognitive impairment, decreased reaction speeds, or muscular weakness. Impacts from fatigue are most often seen in
- [2026 Smart 20 Awards](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/2026-smart-20-awards/) - Due: January 15, 2026 The Smart 20 Awards annually recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work. We will designate three winners from the overall awardee pool at the awards reception. Closed
- [Revolutionary Fibers and Textiles Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/12/10/revolutionary-fibers-and-textiles-innovation-challenge/) - Due: January 15, 2026 Accelerating the Future of Smart, Functional, and Sustainable Textiles for Defense and Beyond The U.S. textile defense industrial base is at a critical inflection point. While advances in materials science and manufacturing have transformed other sectors, fiber and textile production in the United States continues to face constraints from outdated automation,
- [Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Field Support](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/antarctic-research-not-requiring-u-s-antarctic-program-usap-field-support/) - Due: January 15, 2026 Through this solicitation, the Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) funds cutting-edge research that:Improves understanding of interactions among the Antarctic region and global systems.Improves understanding of the dynamic linkages among processes operating in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean and linkages to global Earth systems, which helps
- [Arctic Research Opportunities](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/arctic-research-opportunities-2/) - Due: January 15, 2026 The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region. The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process,
- [Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/pathways-to-enable-open-source-ecosystems/) - Due: January 13, 2025 The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program aims to harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. Many NSF-funded projects result in publicly accessible, modifiable, and distributable open-source products, including software, hardware, models, specifications, programming languages, or data
- [NIA Multi-site Clinical Trial Implementation Grant](https://nta.org/2025/12/10/nia-multi-site-clinical-trial-implementation-grant/) - Due: January 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for implementation of investigator-initiated multi-site interventional clinical trials (all phases). The trials should be hypothesis-driven, milestone-defined, and related to NIA's (National Institute on Aging) research mission. Closed
- [NIAID Resource-Related Research Projects](https://nta.org/2025/12/10/niaid-resource-related-research-projects/) - Due: January 7, 2025 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), invites applications for investigator-initiated Resource-Related Research Projects (R24). The proposed resource must provide a significant benefit to currently funded high priority projects in need of further coordination and support in the areas specified. Under rare
- [NCI Small Grants Program for Cancer Research](https://nta.org/2025/12/11/nci-small-grants-program-for-cancer-research/) - Due: January 7, 2026 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) supports small research projects on cancer that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects, including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of
- [Co-infection and Cancer](https://nta.org/2025/12/11/co-infection-and-cancer/) - Due: January 7, 2026 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to enhance mechanistic and epidemiologic investigations addressing the roles of co-infection and cancer to shed light on presently unestablished pathways in carcinogenesis that may inform prevention and treatment strategies for infection-related cancers. Co-infection is defined as the occurrence of infections by two
- [Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems](https://nta.org/2025/12/15/engineering-next-generation-human-nervous-system-microphysiological-systems/) - Due: January 7, 25 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages research grant applications directed toward developing next-generation human cell-derived microphysiological systems (MPS) and related assays that replicate complex nervous system architectures and physiology with improved fidelity over current capabilities. Supported projects will be expected to enable future studies of complex nervous system development, function
- [Implementation Research for Multi-morbidity Management in the Context of Non-communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and US Tribal Populations](https://nta.org/2025/12/11/implementation-research-for-multi-morbidity-management-in-the-context-of-non-communicable-diseases-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-and-us-tribal-populations/) - Due: January 7, 2025 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) participating Institutes and Centers (ICs), in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD), intend to publish Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to invite applications for implementation research on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in World Bank-defined low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN)
- [Advancing Learning Health Care Research in Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Settings](https://nta.org/2025/12/10/advancing-learning-health-care-research-in-outpatient-mental-health-treatment-settings/) - Due: January 7, 2026 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages pilot effectiveness, implementation, data science, and services research studies that will advance data-driven learning health care in behavioral health treatment settings, leading to better knowledge and tools for implementing, sustaining, and optimizing evidence-based, high quality, and equitable mental health services in community settings. Pilot
- [Secondary Analysis of Existing Datasets in Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Sleep Disorders](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/secondary-analysis-of-existing-datasets-in-heart-lung-and-blood-diseases-and-sleep-disorders/) - Due: January 7, 2026 The goal of this funding opportunity is to stimulate the use of existing human datasets for well-focused secondary analyses to investigate novel scientific ideas or new models, systems, tools, methods, or technologies that have the potential for significant impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research in areas relevant to the NHLBI (National
- [Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Down Syndrome Research](https://nta.org/2025/12/11/development-of-animal-models-and-related-biological-materials-for-down-syndrome-research/) - Due: January 6, 2026 The INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Project encourages exploratory and innovative research to develop, characterize, or improve animal models and related biological materials for Down syndrome (DS) related research and to improve access to information about or from the use of animal models for
- [Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Piedmont South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit](https://nta.org/2025/12/08/cooperative-agreement-for-affiliated-partner-with-the-piedmont-south-atlantic-coast-cooperative-ecosystem-studies-unit/) - Due: January 6, 2026 The USGS (United States Geological Survey) Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Davie, Florida is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU (Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units) partner for research in genetic analyses of biological samples from threatened and endangered sea turtles. The sea turtle biological sample dataset is comprised of skin (tissue)
- [Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with the Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit](https://nta.org/2025/12/10/cooperative-agreement-for-affiliated-partner-with-the-great-lakes-northern-forest-cooperative-ecosystem-studies-unit/) - Due: January 6, 2026 The USGS (United States Geological Survey) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU (Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units) partner for research in conducting research on Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The overall goal is to determine the molecular mechanisms that drive the accumulation of PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in fish.
- [ERDC Broad Agency Announcement](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/erdc-broad-agency-announcement/) - Due: December 31, 2025 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is issuing this announcement for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL), the Environmental Laboratory (EL) and the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) in
- [Arctic Energy Seed Awards](https://nta.org/2025/02/26/connectwerx-arctic-energy-seed-awards/) - Due: December 17, 2025 ConnectWerx, a Partnership Intermediary of DOE in collaboration with the Arctic Energy Office and the Office of Technology Transitions will establish the Arctic Energy Seed Awards which will fund multiple awards to support the execution of projects in the Arctic that focus on the delivery of support, including technical assistance, training towards energy efficiency
- [Integrated Modeling and Population Analysis for Consequence Threat Assessments (IMPACT-A)](https://nta.org/2025/10/28/integrated-modeling-and-population-analysis-for-consequence-threat-assessments/) - Due: December 17, 2025 This Statement of Objectives (SOO) solicits proposals for the development of an agent-based synthetic population and infrastructure that provides scalable, adaptable frameworks for modeling and understanding dynamic, interdependent systems across a range of applications spanning the CBRNE domain. This enhanced capability requires the expanded capability to conduct population and behavior analyses
- [Statistics](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/statistics/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty
- [Enhancement and Management of Established Biomedical Data Repositories and Knowledgebases](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/enhancement-and-management-of-established-biomedical-data-repositories-and-knowledgebases/) - Due: January 25, 2026 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support established biomedical data resources, that have demonstrated impact and have potential for continued benefit to the mission of one or more of the NIH Institutes and Centers participating in this announcement. Each application must: (a) deliver scientific impact to
- [Linguistics](https://nta.org/2025/12/16/linguistics/) - Due: January 15, 2026 The Linguistics Program supports basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages, and of natural language in general. Research areas include syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics and phonology. The program encourages projects that are interdisciplinary in methodological or theoretical perspective, and that
- [Domestic Capability Building Activity – Onshoring the Manufacturing of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Vaccine Candidates](https://nta.org/2025/10/28/domestic-capability-building-activity-onshoring-the-manufacturing-of-viral-hemorrhagic-fever-vaccine-candidates/) - Due: December 11, 2025 The United States Government (USG) has a requirement to expand domestic commercial biopharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities. To meet this need, the USG is initiating an effort to onshore the manufacturing of novel Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (VSV) Delta G based vaccine candidates, expressed in Vero cells, for protection against viral hemorrhagic fever viruses
- [In-Depth Phenotyping and Research Using IMPC-Generated Knockout Mouse Strains Exhibiting Embryonic or Perinatal Lethality or Subviability](https://nta.org/2025/12/11/in-depth-phenotyping-and-research-using-impc-generated-knockout-mouse-strains-exhibiting-embryonic-or-perinatal-lethality-or-subviability/) - Due: January 7, 2026 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to encourage applications to phenotype and/or perform research on embryonic lethal knockout (KO) mouse strains being generated through the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) of which the NIH Knockout Mouse Phenotyping Program (KOMP2) is a member. The mission of IMPC is to
- [Drone Incident Source Model Development](https://nta.org/2025/10/28/drone-incident-source-model-development/) - Due: December 8, 2025 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have proven to be a force multiplier and revolutionary tactical asset in the Russia-Ukraine war. In addition to conventional munitions, military and civilian UAVs can be equipped with chemical or biological payloads and dispersal systems. UAVs are a common delivery platform for herbicide and pesticide application in
- [AHRQ Health Services Research Projects](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2029-10-ahrq-health-services-research-projects/) - Due: October 6, 2029 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to seek health services research grant applications focused on AHRQ research priorities, including improving healthcare quality and patient safety, improving healthcare delivery and practice improvement, and enhancing whole-person healthcare delivery. AHRQ supports research in all healthcare settings, including the hospital, long-term
- [Grant Opportunity: Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2028-8-grant-opportunity-improving-diagnostic-safety-in-ambulatory-care/) - DUE: August 31, 2028 Funding opportunity to develop strategies and interventions to improve diagnostic safety in the heterogenous ambulatory care environment. Apply
- [Grant Opportunity: Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk with Use of Incretin Mimetics](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2027-1-grant-opportunity-mechanisms-that-impact-cancer-risk-with-use-of-incretin-mimetics/) - DUE: January 7, 2027 Funding available to promote preclinical and patient based studies examining the mechanism(s) through which incretin mimetics (including agonists or antagonists of GLP-1, GIP-1, or dual GLP-1/GIP-1 agents) impact cancer risk Apply
- [Grant Opportunity: Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2026-11-grant-opportunity-personal-health-informatics-for-delivering-actionable-insights-to-individuals/) - DUE: November 5, 2026 Furthering the science of personal health informatics by providing meaningful and actionable insights to individuals through innovative personal health data collection, integration, analysis, and personalized risk assessments and interpretation. Apply
- [Grant Opportunity: Assay development and screening for discovery of chemical probes, drugs or immunomodulators](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2026-9-grant-opportunity-assay-development-and-screening-for-discovery-of-chemical-probes-drugs-or-immunomodulators/) - DUE: September 7, 2026 Seeking applications for identification of small molecules that function to elucidate the biology of disease as chemical probes or function as agonists or antagonists of disease target(s) for therapy or immunotherapy. Apply
- [Grant Opportunity: Research Projects to Enhance Applicability of Mammalian Models for Translational Research](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2026-9-grant-opportunity-research-projects-to-enhance-applicability-of-mammalian-models-for-translational-research/) - DUE: September 7, 2026 The National Cancer Institute invites applications for projects to expand, improve, or transform the utility of mammalian cancer and tumor models for translational research. Apply
- [ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering-2/) - Due: December 5, 2025 The primary goal of the ECosystem forLeadingInnovation inPlasmaScience andEngineering (ECLIPSE) program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for bringing fundamental plasma science investigations to bear on problems of societal and technological need within the scope of science and engineering supported by the participating NSF programs.Examples of topical areas within the
- [Integrated Data Systems & Services](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/integrated-data-systems-services/) - Due: December 4, 2025 The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that broadly advance and facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education. Through this solicitation, the IDSS program is accepting proposals for three categories of projects: Category I. Development, deployment, and
- [Rapid Antibody Production for Immunoassay Diagnostics (RAPID)](https://nta.org/2025/12/01/rapid-antibody-production-for-immunoassay-diagnostics-rapid/) - Due: December 4, 2025 The objective of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, and other stakeholders to assist BARDA in understanding existing process bottlenecks and to identify technologies, capabilities, and potential partnerships that can substantially improve the speed, scalability, and adaptability of antibody (or other protein/peptide binders) development for diagnostic applications, particularly
- [Unlocking the Power of Data for Space Startups with AWS](https://nta.org/2025/10/02/unlocking-the-power-of-data-for-space-startups-with-aws/) - Space startups generate and rely on massive amounts of data—from satellite imagery and mission telemetry to AI-driven analytics and digital twins. But how do you efficiently manage, store, and scale that data without diverting resources from your core mission? Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and National Technology Alliance (NTA) for a free 45-minute webinar designed
- [CWX-024-CESER: Securing ENergy Technology ResiliencY (SENTRY)](https://nta.org/2025/10/01/cwx-024-ceser-securing-energy-technology-resiliency-sentry/) - Due: December 1, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), is issuing the Securing ENergy Technology ResiliencY (SENTRY) Opportunity Announcement to solicit innovative proposals from commercial technology startups. This initiative aims to significantly enhance the security, resilience, and operational efficiency of the nation’s energy
- [Archaeometry](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/archaeometry/) - Due: December 1, 2025 The Archaeology Program administers an annual Archaeometry competition with a target date of December 1. The goal is to fund projects in two main categories:To develop or refine anthropologically relevant archaeometric techniques. Examples include the development of methods to identify specific types of organic residues on ceramics or development of field
- [Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation](https://nta.org/2025/11/25/cyberinfrastructure-for-sustained-scientific-innovation/) - Due: December 1, 2025 The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. The CSSI
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Space, Defense and Mobility](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-space-defense-and-mobility/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Space, Defense and Mobility is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in space, defense and mobility innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in space, defense
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-energy-2/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in energy and sustainability innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in microelectronics, enhance system integration, and enable
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Biotech and Medical](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-biotech-and-medical-2/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Biotech and Medical is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in biotechnology and medical innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in biomanufacturing, enhance medical technologies,
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Artificial Intelligence](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-artificial-intelligence/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Artificial Intelligence is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in AI and machine learning. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive advancements in AI technologies, enhance system integration,
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Manufacturing](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-advanced-manufacturing/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Manufacturing is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in manufacturing. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance the development of innovative materials, and enable sustainability, scalability, and
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-advanced-materials/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in materials science. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance the development of innovative materials, and enable sustainability, scalability,
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Electronics and Microsystems](https://nta.org/2025/07/23/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-electronics-and-microsystems-2/) - Due: December 15, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Electronics and Microsystems is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in electronics and microsystems innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in microelectronics, enhance system integration,
- [Agnostics Diagnostics](https://nta.org/2025/10/31/agnostics-diagnostics/) - Due: November 20, 2025 The purpose of this RPP is to support the advanced development, clinical evaluation, and FDA clearance of mNGS-based diagnostic assays for viral and bacterial pathogen detection. BARDA seeks highly flexible, rapidly adaptable systems capable of identifying all known viral and bacterial pathogens within a given specimen (e.g., respiratory sample) and reconfiguring-through
- [MSD Prevention Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/10/15/msd-prevention-innovation-challenge/) - Due: November 14, 2025 TechConnect, in partnership with the National Safety Council, invites applications from innovators and business advancing solutions and interventions with applications in the field of ergonomics. In particular, technologies with potential to reduce the frequency and/or severity of musculoskeletal disorders by mitigating MSD-related risks (e.g. forceful exertion, awkward postures and repetitive motion)
- [2025 Enzymatic Conversion of Maltose Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/10/20/2025-enzymatic-conversion-of-maltose-sprint/) - Due: November 14, 2025 Abstract A global food manufacturer seeks enzymatic technologies to convert maltose in solution into a non-sugar alternative for use in food products while maintaining clean labels. Background Maltose is a common, versatile component in modern food production. Consumers, however, seek food products with reduced sugar content while maintaining taste and texture.
- [Subsurface Void Detection Technologies](https://nta.org/2025/09/30/subsurface-void-detection-technologies/) - Due: November 3, 2025 Resource extraction companies require reliable data on all significant subsurface voids within the operational volume of an active site. TechConnect’s global mining and materials client is seeking next-generation detection technologies to locate and analyze subsurface voids at its locations in the United States and globally. Subsurface voids at active resource extraction
- [Geometric Analysis](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/geometric-analysis/) - Due: November 1, 2025 The program in Geometric Analysis supports research on differential geometry and its relation to partial differential equations and variational principles; geometric methods in modern mathematical physics; symplectic geometry; geometric group theory; geometric data analysis; aspects of global analysis, including convex, complex, integral, and information geometries; and related geometric topics. Apply
- [Topology](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/topology/) - Due: November 1, 2025 The Topology program supports research on algebraic topology, including chromatic, equivariant, motivic, and (un)stable homotopy, homology and cohomology theories; bordism and K-theory; topological manifolds; knots and links; geometric topology; differential topology; transformation groups; topological quantum field theories; contact and symplectic structures; infinity and model categories; and topological data analysis. Closed
- [Moonshot Opportunities: Partnering with Lunar Outpost on the Next Era of Exploration](https://nta.org/2025/09/29/moonshot-opportunities-partnering-with-lunar-outpost-on-the-next-era-of-exploration/) - To boldly go where only a few have gone before… Humanity is once again setting its sights on the Moon, and Lunar Outpost is helping lead the way. From small autonomous rovers to astronaut-ready space vehicles, the company is pioneering technologies that will enable sustainable lunar operations. Join the National Technology Alliance (NTA) and Lunar
- [Clinical Trials Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases (R01) Clinical Trials Required](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/clinical-trials-addressing-unmet-needs-of-rare-neurodegenerative-diseases-r01-clinical-trials-required/) - Due: October 21, 2025 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to fund clinical trials of products evaluating efficacy and/or safety in support of a new indication or change in labeling to address unmet needs in rare neurodegenerative diseases for children and adults. Through the support of collaborative, efficient, and/or innovative clinical
- [Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/bidirectional-influences-between-adolescent-social-media-use-and-mental-health/) - Due: October 20, 2025 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focuses on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. For the purposes of this NOFO, social media are defined as internet-based communication platforms and applications that enable interactions between users by sharing or
- [Aging Mammalian Tissues In Vitro](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/aging-mammalian-tissues-in-vitro/) - Due: October 20, 2025 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites applications that propose interdisciplinary research that aims to develop complex mammalian 3-dimensional (3D)in vitromicrophysiological systems (MPS) to model aging and recapitulate aging processes/phenotypes observed in the whole organismin vivo. This NOFO is primarily focused on human cell-derived MPS (e.g., tissue chip, organ-on-chip, tissue organoids).
- [Development of devices, diagnostic technologies, or digital health tools for treatment, detection, and diagnosis of Pediatric Cancers and/or Rare Cancers](https://nta.org/2025/09/19/development-of-devices-diagnostic-technologies-or-digital-health-tools-for-treatment-detection-and-diagnosis-of-pediatric-cancers-and-or-rare-cancers/) - Due: October 17, 2025 The goal of this solicitation is to encourage small businesses to propose “out of the box” ideas to demonstrate “proof of concept” for the development of innovative technologies to make a transformative impact in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of pediatric or rare cancer patients. To be considered innovative, projects must
- [DHA- Military Health System Research Program](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/dha-military-health-system-research-program/) - Due: October 17, 2025 The Military Health System Research Program (MHSRP) provides research grants on topic areas directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD (HA)) and the Leadership of the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The intent of MHSRP is to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery within Military
- [DoD Toxic Exposures Translational Research Partnership Award](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/dod-toxic-exposures-translational-research-partnership-award/) - Due: October 16, 2025 The intent of the FY25 Toxic Exposures Research Program (TERP) Translational Research Partnership Award (TRPA) is to support new or existing collaborative partnerships to pursue 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 clinical
- [Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/windows-on-the-universe-the-era-of-multi-messenger-astrophysics/) - Due: October 15, 2025 The Universe is the ultimate laboratory, and we can now probe it as never before through several powerful and diverse windows – electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles, and gravitational waves. Each of these windows provides a different view. Together they reveal a detailed picture of the Universe that will allow us to
- [Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory Coordinating Center](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/artificial-intelligence-and-technology-collaboratory-coordinating-center/) - Due: October 15, 2025 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites Cooperative Agreement (U24) applications for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory (AITC) Coordinating Center (AITCC). The AITC Program promotes the development and implementation of artificial intelligence approaches and technology through research projects for aging and AD/ADRD research. The central
- [Mathematical Biology](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/mathematical-biology/) - Due: October 14, 2025 The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in all areas of mathematical sciences with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, biological relevance and significance, and strong integration between mathematics and biology. Some projects of interest to the Mathematical Biology Program may include development of mathematical theories, methodologies,
- [Development of an Expeditionary Medical (EXMED) mobile Command, Control, Communications, and Computers IT (C4IT) solution for integration into Expeditionary Fast Transport (T-EPF) Flight II](https://nta.org/2024/11/11/development-of-an-expeditionary-medical-exmed-mobile-command-control-communications-and-computers-it-c4it-solution-for-integration-into-expeditionary-fast-transport-t-epf-flight-ii/) - Due: November 25, 2024 This RPP is focused on development of expeditionary medical (EXMED) command and control (C2), communications, and computer (C4) information technology (IT), or C4IT, prototypes with approval to connect (ATC) to Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) Network Management System (NMS) and authorization to operate (ATO) on an Expeditionary Fast Transport
- [Platelet and Platelet-like Products State of the Technology Meeting Request for Information](https://nta.org/2024/10/16/platelet-and-platelet-like-products-state-of-the-technology-meeting-request-for-information/) - Due: November 1, 2024 There is a a critical need for improved capabilities to understand, detect, prevent, mitigate, treat and recover from the pathophysiology that occur along the continuum from blood-vascular injury. This opportunity requires membership in the MTEC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be
- [Single Blood Donor Collection and Storage Bags Manufactured in Continental United States](https://nta.org/2024/11/18/single-blood-donor-collection-and-storage-bags-manufactured-in-continental-united-states/) - Due: January 6, 2025 In accord with the Department of Defense (DoD) 2022 National Defense Strategy identifying Building Enduring Advantages, there is an effort to invest in manufacturing capabilities within the continental United States (CONUS) as part of efforts to bolster the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and securing domestic supply chains. In recent years, there
- [MultiTopic](https://nta.org/2025/01/17/multitopic/) - Due: February 14, 2025 Purpose:This solicitation, issued by the MTEC Consortium Manager (CM), Advanced TechnologyInternational (ATI), represents a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) to solicit current MTECmembers for a broad range of medical prototype technological and knowledge solutions relatedto the Focus Areas of Interest (also called “Focus Area(s)”) listed below. Proposed solutions mayinclude medical techniques,
- [Sailor Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Risk Prediction Model](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/sailor-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-risk-prediction-model/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBA The objective of this effort is to deliver a minimum viable predictive model prototype for PTSD and associated stress-related mental disorders among active component Sailors that is functional in DoD analytics platforms and can be deployed to production in different data environments. Basic functionality should include a data dashboard indicating basic
- [Modernization of Expeditionary Medicine (EXMED) Warfighter Prototypes](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/technology-integration-and-modernization-of-expeditionary-medicine-warfighter-prototypes/) - Due: June 13, 2025 In order to modernize the DoD to be a ready and resilient Force, PMS 408 is seeking to build a capability through MTEC that is poised to rapidly advance prototypes related to Warfighter expeditionary medicine and transition these to both the Warfighter and the commercial marketplace as appropriate. This effort requires
- [Modernization of Expeditionary Medicine (EXMED) Warfighter Prototypes](https://nta.org/2025/06/16/modernization-of-expeditionary-medicine-exmed-warfighter-prototypes/) - Due: June 13, 2025 This RPP is focused on creating a systems integration approach to developing an array of medical solutions related to evaluating and optimizing Warfighter prototypes for forward stabilization, resuscitative care, primary care, dental services and force health protection in support of the modernization of expeditionary medicine (EXMED), in particular for implementation on
- [Request For Project Information (RPI) MTEC-23-11-Neurotrauma](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/request-for-project-information-rpi-mtec-23-11-neurotrauma/) - Due: September 14, 2023 This RPP is focused on the diagnosis, monitoring, and assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury in support of an upcoming State of the Technology Meeting. This opportunity requires membership in the MTEC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we
- [MTEC-RPP-23-12-Blood](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/mtec-rpp-23-12-blood/) - DUE October 23, 2023 Blood and Blood Products State of the Technology Meeting. This opportunity requires membership in the MTEC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity.
- [MTEC-24-05-AutoDocSensor](https://nta.org/2024/02/14/2024-03-auto-doc-sensor/) - Due: March 1, 2024 Developing a system of sensor suites that can reliably and passively collect the core data needed to identify casualty status, key tasks performed by medics, and real-time resource use in casualty care scenarios under realistic battlefield conditions. This opportunity requires membership in the MTEC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the
- [MTEC-24-07-NavyDental](https://nta.org/2024/03/21/2024-04-mtec-24-07-navydental/) - Due: April 26, 2024 RPP is focused on detection, prevention, and treatment of dental diseases, oral infections, maxillofacial injuries, and orofacial pain to improve care for and outcomes of wounded warfighters. This opportunity requires membership in the MTEC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right
- [MCDC: Broad Spectrum Prophylactics for Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors](https://nta.org/2025/09/16/mcdc-broad-spectrum-prophylactics-for-acetylcholinesterase-inhibitors/) - Due: October 8, 2025 The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) focused on surveying current industry capabilities in the engineering, testing, and manufacturing of solutions capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors before they affect nervous system targets. The information gathered by this RFI will be
- [Innovative Biospecimen Science Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/innovative-biospecimen-science-technologies-for-basic-and-clinical-cancer-research/) - Due: October 3, 2025 Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) solicits grant applications proposing exploratory research projects focused on the early-stage development of highly innovative technologies to improve the quality and handling of samples used for cancer research or clinical care. This includes tools with new capabilities to address
- [Experts in the science of shelf stability Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/08/25/experts-in-the-science-of-shelf-stability-sprint/) - Due: October 3, 2025 Beverage manufacturers need to understand the parameters that impact product quality during shelf-life stability testing. TechConnect’s global client intends to engage with SMEs able to provide insight and guidance to enhance their stability testing program. Background TechConnect’s client, a multi-billion-dollar global beverage company, conducts extensive shelf stability studies on its products
- [Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/smart-health-and-biomedical-research-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence-and-advanced-data-science/) - Due: October 3, 2025 The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that
- [NSTIC 26-A: Directed Energy Science & Engineering](https://nta.org/2025/09/16/nstic-26-a-directed-energy-science-engineering/) - Due: October 1, 2025 Directed Energy Science & Engineering Closed
- [DoD Melanoma, Team Science Award](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/dod-melanoma-team-science-award/) - Due: October 1, 2025 This program supports a broad range of hypothesis-driven, multidisciplinary studies that have a short-term goal of advancing the state of the science in melanoma research and/or patient care. Team science is a synergistic effort that harnesses techniques, approaches, and perspectives from multiple disciplines and/or therapeutic areas to address complex, multi-dimensional problems
- [Analysis](https://nta.org/2025/09/19/analysis/) - Due: September 30, 2025 The Analysis Program supports research in analysis. Areas of current activity include complex, harmonic, and real analysis; dynamical systems and ergodic theory; functional analysis; mathematical physics; operator theory and operator algebras; partial differential equations and calculus of variations. Closed
- [Geospace Environment Modeling](https://nta.org/2025/09/19/geospace-environment-modeling/) - Due: September 30, 2025 Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) is a broad-based research program investigating the physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and the coupling of the magnetosphere to the atmosphere and to the solar wind. The goal of the GEM program is to make accurate predictions of the geospace environment by developing physical understanding of the
- [Providing Access to Updated, Aggregate Federal Workforce and Training Data to State, Local, and Territorial Governments](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/providing-access-to-updated-aggregate-federal-workforce-and-training-data-to-state-local-and-territorial-governments/) - Anticipated Release Date: FY25 This project aims to develop a dashboard that provides up-to-date aggregate public federal workforce and training data by state. It would identify and aggregate federal workforce and training data by state to support state decision making. This opportunity does not require membership in America’s Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have
- [Evaluating the Impact of State Grants on Self-Sufficiency for Families and Children](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/evaluating-the-impact-of-state-grants-on-self-sufficiency-for-families-and-children/) - Anticipated Release Date: FY25 The objective of this project is to link administrative data on housing participants with state block grant data to identify HUD recipients receiving childcare vouchers, analyze the extent to which those vouchers are used, and model the effect of voucher use on sustained employability. This opportunity does not require membership in
- [Modeling Criminal Case Processing Within Local Jurisdictions](https://nta.org/2025/06/24/modeling-criminal-case-processing-within-local-jurisdictions-2/) - Anticipated Release Date: FY25 This opportunity does not require membership in America’s Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have to become a member of ADC (at no cost) to accept. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join
- [Drone Dominance Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/09/09/drone-dominance-innovation-challenge/) - Due: September 26, 2025 The Drone Dominance Innovation Challenge, presented in partnership with the Vertical Lift Consortium, accelerates next-generation capabilities in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in alignment with the White House Executive Order to strengthen U.S. leadership in the field. This open innovation competition invites visionary innovators to submit cutting-edge prototypes, software solutions, and operational
- [Mechanistic links between diet, lipid metabolism, and tumor growth and progression](https://nta.org/2025/09/22/mechanistic-links-between-diet-lipid-metabolism-and-tumor-growth-and-progression/) - Due: October 23, 2025 Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to request applications that propose mechanistic investigations of the links between diet, lipid metabolism and tumor growth and progression. It is anticipated that this program will support fundamental studies designed to identify and define the molecular mechanisms through which lipid metabolism mediates tumor
- [Research Resource for Human Organs and Tissues](https://nta.org/2025/09/19/research-resource-for-human-organs-and-tissues/) - Due: September 19, 2025 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support a Human Tissue and Organ Research Resource program to enable the continued availability of human tissues and organs to biomedical researchers. The overall goal of the research resource is to provide a wide variety of human tissues and organs,
- [CWMD: System Integration and Enterprise Data Undertaking (EDU) for Enhanced Threat Characterization](https://nta.org/2025/09/16/cwmd-system-integration-and-enterprise-data-undertaking-edu-for-enhanced-threat-characterization/) - Due: September 18, 2025 DTRA JSTO’s Threat Agent Science Branch is seeking to develop a software prototype capability that is both a data lake/repository (data architecture) with Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) analytical capabilities and a user-friendly software front-end and back-end that makes the large amount of TAS data accessible and readily analyzed. This Request for
- [RFI: Animal Models for Aerosol Exposure to Toxins](https://nta.org/2025/08/28/rfi-animal-models-for-aerosol-exposure-to-toxins/) - Due: September 2, 2025 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) supports the warfighter by developing medical countermeasures against a wide range of threats, including marine toxins. Exposure to aerosolized marine toxins poses a significant threat to warfighters operating in maritime environments. Developing effective countermeasures requires robust animal
- [Reimagining Available Vaccines and Envisioning Novelty (RAVEN)](https://nta.org/2025/08/28/reimagining-available-vaccines-and-envisioning-novelty-raven/) - Due: September 2, 2025 Preventative treatments and vaccines offer proactive solutions to biological threats: however, many of the current countermeasures are decades old. These prophylactic platforms have stagnated through single threat targeting which is potentiated by the “plug and play” nature of existing technologies. The treadmilling of existing prophylactic platforms from virus to virus has
- [DOD Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Therapeutic Idea Award](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/dod-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-therapeutic-idea-award/) - Due: August 27, 2025 The fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program (ALSRP) Therapeutic Idea Award (TIA) supports new, innovative, high-risk, high-gain ideas aimed at Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) drug or therapy discovery. The studies supported by this award mechanism are expected to be hypothesis-driven and generate preliminary data for future avenues of
- [Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/verticals-enabling-intelligent-network-systems/) - Due: August 25, 2025 The VINES program seeks to support both fundamental research and verticals-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next generation (NextG) advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum. The program seeks to go beyond the current research portfolios within individual
- [Biological Oceanography](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/biological-oceanography/) - Due: August 15, 2025 The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes. Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or
- [Cognitive Neuroscience](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/cognitive-neuroscience/) - Due: August 15, 2025 The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Research topics considered for funding include but are
- [Exploratory Studies to Investigate Mechanisms of HIV infection, Replication, Latency, and/or Pathogenesis in the Context of Substance Use Disorders](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/exploratory-studies-to-investigate-mechanisms-of-hiv-infection-replication-latency-and-or-pathogenesis-in-the-context-of-substance-use-disorders/) - Due: August 14, 2025 This broad RFA will support exploratory studies addressing mechanistic questions in HIV infection, replication, latency, and/or pathogenesis (including HAND) in the context of SUDs. Closed
- [CWMD: RPP-25-06: IEW Phase 2 ](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/iew-phase-2/) - Due: August 13, 2025 The CSC2 PMO is an agile Software Acquisition Pathway program that employs Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) necessary for CSC2 software development to enable quarterly Capability Releases (CRs). The CSC2 PMO requires containerized micro-services solutions be utilized to the maximum extent practical to fulfill
- [Microglial Pathophysiology in Comorbid Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and HIV](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/microglial-pathophysiology-in-comorbid-substance-use-disorder-sud-and-hiv/) - Due: August 14, 2025 The goal of this funding opportunity announcement is to generate brain region and cell-type specific microglial protein profiles in the context of HIV and SUD, then use those molecular profiles and interaction networks to establish mechanisms of how HIV-harboring microglia may contribute specifically to neuropathologies encountered with comorbid HIV and SUD.
- [Ex Vivo Models for Studies at the Intersection of HIV and Addictive Substance Use](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/ex-vivo-models-for-studies-at-the-intersection-of-hiv-and-addictive-substance-use/) - Due: August 13, 2025 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites grant applications aimed at elucidating neuroimmune and neuronal-glial pathophysiological mechanisms of HIV-associated neurological disorders (HAND) using ex vivo culturing platforms derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) in the presence of addictive substances. Specific emphasis is on unbiased, reproducible analysis of genetics and
- [Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/correctness-for-scientific-computing-systems/) - Due: August 12, 2025 Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2) is a joint program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The program addresses challenges that are both core to DOE’s mission and essential to NSF’s mission of ensuring broad scientific progress. The program’s overarching goal is to elevate correctness
- [Ecosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering/) - Due: August 12, 2025 Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation. The primary goal of the ECosystem forLeadingInnovation inPlasmaScience andEngineering (ECLIPSE) program is to identify and capitalize on
- [Grand Opportunity in Medications Development for Substance-Use Disorders](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/grand-opportunity-in-medications-development-for-substance-use-disorders/) - Due: August 11, 2025 The purpose of this notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to accelerate the development of medication for the treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) by encouraging research applications to support a broad array of preclinical and/or clinical research projects. The goal is to fund medication studies that will have high impact
- [Seeking Solutions to Address Airflow and Contaminant Infiltration Across Dynamic Protective Interfaces (WRAITH)](https://nta.org/2025/07/21/seeking-solutions-to-address-airflow-and-contaminant-infiltration-across-dynamic-protective-interfaces-wraith/) - Due: August 8, 2025 The Joint Project Manager for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Protection (JPM CBRN P) is conducting market research to identify innovative solutions that address the persistent challenge of contaminant infiltration at the interface between physically integrated protective components worn by individuals. This RFI seeks to understand novel approaches for controlling air
- [Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control (QC3)](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/quantum-characterization-calibration-and-control-qc3/) - Due: August 7, 2025 DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory–Army Research Office (ARL-ARO) in partnership with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) is soliciting proposals for research in Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control (QC3). This is a proposed four-year program and is primarily focused on three topic areas in the field of quantum computing (QC). The topic
- [Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/science-of-learning-and-augmented-intelligence-sl/) - Due: August 6, 2025 Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. The
- [Centers for AIDS Research](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/centers-for-aids-research/) - Due: August 4, 2025 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for the Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) program to provide administrative and shared research support to enhance HIV/AIDS research. CFARs provide core facilities, expertise, resources, and services not readily obtained otherwise through more traditional funding mechanisms. The program emphasizes
- [Biothreat Diagnostic Rapid Response](https://nta.org/2025/07/29/biothreat-diagnostic-rapid-response/) - Due: August 4, 2025 The DxR2 program will solicit new point of care/remote-use products with domestic manufacturing capabilities which address test development for Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) biothreats to include glanders, botulism, tularemia, typhus, smallpox, and plague. The overall goals of this program are to build a biothreat diagnostic portfolio, maintain domestic
- [Perception, Action & Cognition](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/perception-action-cognition/) - Due: August 1, 2025 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [NSTIC: Directed Energy Science & Engineering](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/nstic-directed-energy-science-engineering/) - Due: July 31, 2025 Directed Energy Science & Engineering This opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next
- [Countering Biological Weapons Threats](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/countering-biological-weapons-threats/) - Due: July 30, 2025 ISN/CTR’s Biosecurity Engagement Program (BEP) advances the Trump Administration’s Executive Order (E.O.) on Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research, which pledges to “balance the prevention of catastrophic consequences with maintaining readiness against biological threats and driving global leadership in biotechnology, biological countermeasures, biosecurity, and health research”. In alignment with
- [TREXII: Modular VISMOD Program (MVP)](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/trexii-modular-vismod-program-mvp/) - Due: July 24, 2025 TREXII: Modular VISMOD Program (MVP) This opportunity requires membership in the TReXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form below
- [Functional Validation and/or Characterization of Genes or Variants Implicated in Substance Use Disorders](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/functional-validation-and-or-characterization-of-genes-or-variants-implicated-in-substance-use-disorders/) - Due: July 28, 2025 The purpose of this initiative is to support projects which exploit genome or epigenome editing to functionally validate and characterize genes or variants involved in substance use disorder-relevant phenotypes. It is expected that any genetic resources generated will be made broadly available to the scientific community to enable investigation of the
- [Measuring Large Language Model Understanding of Federal Statistical Data](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/measuring-large-language-model-understanding-of-federal-statistical-data/) - Due: July 18, 2025 Generative AI applications offer transformative opportunities for how Americans interact with public data. By enabling interaction through natural language and multimodal prompts, these technologies facilitate more intuitive access to complex data collections through chat-based interfaces, reducing technical barriers and expanding the accessibility of public data to a broader range of users.
- [Secure Multiparty Computation: A Case Study](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/secure-multiparty-computation-a-case-study/) - Due: July 16, 2025 This project seeks a coordinated effort to integrate data across government and the private sector, utilizing privacy enhancing technologies (PETs). The integration of government and private sector data increases privacy concerns and therefore requires special tools to ensure privacy protection while integrating. The key objective of this project is to use
- [Linking State and Federal Data to Strengthen Federal Program Evaluation](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/linking-state-and-federal-data-to-strengthen-federal-program-evaluation/) - Due: July 16, 2025 Evaluation is a key agency function. The ability to link administrative data records across multiple sources is critical to understanding results achieved with federal funding. Many federal programs are administered at the state level, but the federal government does not have or has limited direct access to the administrative data collected
- [Arctic Research Opportunities](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/arctic-research-opportunities/) - Due: July 15, 2025 The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate to conduct research about the Arctic region. The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process,
- [Physical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2025/07/15/physical-oceanography-2/) - Due: August 15, 2025 The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the
- [Defined Rapid Antigen Identification and Immunogenic Characterization (DRAIIC)](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/defined-rapid-antigen-identification-and-immunogenic-characterization-draiic/) - Due: July 11, 2025 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with addressing the potential threat to the armed services posed by a wide range of bacterial, viral and toxin agents. This objective of this project is to identify current and developing technologies that can rapidly and accurately
- [Increased Micro Sampling to Monitor Immunological Response (IMMIR)](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/increased-micro-sampling-to-monitor-immunological-response-immir/) - Due: July 11, 2025 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with addressing the potential threat to the armed services posed by a wide range of bacterial, viral and toxin agents. The current technology and animal use and care guidelines limit the number of blood samples
- [Data Usage Platform as a Federal Data Asset](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/data-usage-platform-as-a-federal-data-asset/) - Due: July 10, 2025 The key objective of this project is to develop an easy-to-maintain, user-friendly dashboard showing the utilization of federal data by a wide variety of data users with varying experience in research, decision-making and policymaking. Federal data can include administrative data as well as statistical data. Currently, there is no shared resource
- [Future Directions for Data Collection Frames and Novel Estimation Strategies](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/data-modernization-future-directions-for-data-collection-frames-and-modeled-estimates/) - Due: July 10, 2025 This project seeks to address the rapidly changing landscape of survey data collection and dissemination of federal survey statistics. The key objective of this effort is to develop alternative data collection frames and data dissemination methods to inform the release of federal survey statistics that rely on sampling methods. This opportunity
- [Big Data Analytics/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning](https://nta.org/2025/06/16/big-data-analytics-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning/) - Due: July 10, 2025 Big Data Analytics/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning This opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next
- [Upregulation of Endogenous Butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) for Organophosphorus Nerve Agent (OPNA) Prophylaxis (UPREG)](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/upregulation-of-endogenous-butyrylcholinesterase-buche-for-organophosphorus-nerve-agent-opna-prophylaxis-upreg/) - Due: July 10, 2025 The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, in its role as the Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) for Chemical and Biological Defense, hereinafter referred to as “JSTO,” seeks to develop technologies that temporarily upregulate the expression of endogenous Butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) and demonstrate enhanced protection against Organophosphorus
- [Operationalizing Novel Technologies for Advanced Rapid Generation of Effective Medical Countermeasures (MCM) (ONTARGET)](https://nta.org/2025/07/03/operationalizing-novel-technologies-for-advanced-rapid-generation-of-effective-medical-countermeasures-mcm-ontarget/) - Due: July 9, 2025 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO), within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), is responsible for addressing potential threats to the armed forces posed by a broad range of chemical, biological, radiological, and toxin agents. This project seeks to identify and evaluate promising technologies for Department of Defense (DoD) use.
- [Expeditions in Computing](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/expeditions-in-computing-2/) - Due: July 9, 2025 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- [Fraud in Public Healthcare Programs; Developing Fraud Detection Models with Linked Data](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/developing-fraud-risk-models-in-support-of-public-programs/) - Due: July 8, 2025 The objective of this project is to develop new fraud detection methods to provide a more complete view of fraud against public programs. It will estimate the magnitude of fraud and identify risk factors and vulnerabilities in one public program, serving as a proof of concept for applying this methodology to
- [Electromagnetic Environmental Effects and Spectrum](https://nta.org/2025/06/16/electromagnetic-environmental-effects-and-spectrum/) - Due: July 3, 2025 Electromagnetic Environmental Effects and Spectrum This opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next
- [TREXII: DOD Digital OnRamp AI Tools](https://nta.org/2025/06/18/dod-digital-onramp-ai-tools/) - Due: July 1, 2025 The Department of Defense is seeking AI Tools that integrate with the DIU Digital OnRamp Platform to support secure, accurate, and scalable discovery of commercial, public, and Government-proprietary information through natural language queries. Desired Capabilities Include: Discovery of Government RFPs, RFIs, and relevant programs Structured outputs grounded in source data with
- [U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Broad Agency Announcement for Basic Research](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/u-s-army-research-institute-for-the-behavioral-and-social-sciences-broad-agency-announcement-for-basic-research/) - Due: July 1, 2025 This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Foundational Science Research Unit (FSRU) of the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) solicits new proposals for its fiscal year 2026 program of basic research in behavioral science. To meet the operational objectives of the U.S. Army over the
- [NCI Clinical and Translational Exploratory/Developmental Studies](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/nci-clinical-and-translational-exploratory-developmental-studies/) - Due: July 1, 2025 Through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) intends to supports the development of new exploratory research in cancer diagnosis, treatment, imaging, symptom/toxicity, and prevention clinical trials; correlative studies associated with clinical trials; novel cancer therapeutic, symptom/toxicity, and preventive agent development, radiotherapy development activities, and mechanism-driven combinations;
- [Webinar: Commercial Space All Stars](https://nta.org/2025/06/04/webinar-commercial-space-all-stars/) - Live Date: June 30 Join us for a dynamic conversation with standout founders from the commercial space sector as they share how their ventures—and the industry—have evolved in recent years. In this webinar, we’ll hear firsthand how emerging companies are navigating the shifting space economy, building traction, and scaling impact in an increasingly competitive and
- [DoD Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/dod-breast-cancer-breakthrough-award-levels-1-and-2/) - Due: June 27, 2025 Supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. All applications must address at least one of the fiscal year 2025 (FY25) Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) overarching challenges, unless adequate justification for exception is provided. Applications must address the challenge in a way
- [Industrialization and Translation of Extracellular Vesicles for use in Regenerative Medicine (U43/U44 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/industrialization-and-translation-of-extracellular-vesicles-for-use-in-regenerative-medicine-u43-u44-clinical-trials-not-allowed/) - DUE: June 25, 2025 SBIR Opportunity: Supporting the development of extracellular vesicle technologies for regenerative medical applications. Closed
- [Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models](https://nta.org/2025/06/23/incorporating-human-behavior-in-epidemiological-models/) - Due: July 14, 2025 The Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models (IHBEM) program supports research that incorporates social and behavioral processes in mathematical epidemiological models. The program provides support for projects that involve integrated participation from the mathematical and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Apply
- [Advanced Manufacturing Innovation for Maritime Readiness Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/06/18/advanced-manufacturing-innovation-for-maritime-readiness-challenge/) - Due: June 22, 2025 In response to the April 2025 Executive Order to Revitalize U.S. Maritime Power, the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation for Maritime Readiness Challenge drives innovation to transform the future of American shipbuilding. Sponsored by Advanced Technology International (ATI) and powered by TechConnect, a division of ATI, this national initiative will present groundbreaking technologies
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy and Resilience](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-energy-and-resilience/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy and Resilience is a premier open innovation program accelerating solutions for energy security, grid resilience, sustainable power, and critical infrastructure protection in defense and commercial sectors. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, it seeks bold, transformative ideas driving breakthroughs in energy storage,
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-advanced-materials-and-manufacturing/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in advanced materials and manufacturing. Aligned with U.S. national priorities and critical technologies, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in areas such as advanced materials and
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Biotech and Health Security](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-biotech-and-health-security/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technologies Challenge: Biotech and Health Security is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in biotechnology and health security. Aligned with U.S. national priorities and critical technologies, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in advanced diagnostics and imaging, biopharma manufacturing,
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Autonomy, AI, and Cyber](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-autonomy-ai-and-cyber/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technologies Challenge: Autonomy, AI, and Cyber is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in autonomy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Aligned with U.S. national priorities and critical technologies, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in AI for critical technologies, autonomous
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Electronics](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-advanced-electronics/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technologies Challenge: Advanced Electronics is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in advanced electronics. Aligned with U.S. national priorities and critical technologies, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in advanced microelectronics, microelectronics manufacturing, high power electronics, directed energy, harsh
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Space](https://nta.org/2025/03/12/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-space/) - Due: June 20, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Space is a premier open innovation program accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges facing technology advancement for space. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive breakthroughs in areas such as in-space manufacturing, satellite communications, and
- [Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/cybersecurity-innovation-for-cyberinfrastructure/) - Due: April 2, 2025 The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. CICI
- [Reengineering Enabling Sleep Transitions in Operationally Restrictive Environments (RESTORE)](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/reengineering-enabling-sleep-transitions-in-operationally-restrictive-environments-restore/) - Due: June 18, 2025 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that leverage emerging neuromodulation technologies to enhance sleep efficiency and performance under sleep-restricted conditions. The Reengineering Enabling Sleep Transitions in Operationally Restrictive Environments (RESTORE) program aims to develop multimodal, multitarget, noninvasive neuromodulation methods to repair disrupted sleep architectures caused by
- [Future Manufacturing](https://nta.org/2025/06/16/future-manufacturing/) - Due: June 18, 2025 Future Manufacturing seeks inventive approaches to invigorate the manufacturing ecosystem and seed nascent future industries that can only be imagined today. Future Manufacturing supports research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national
- [Modeling Criminal Case Processing within Local Jurisdictions](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/modeling-criminal-case-processing-within-local-jurisdictions/) - Due: June 17, 2025 The objective of this project is to explore the impact of criminal case processing from arrest through prosecution outcomes. It will link case-level data across relevant agencies in three jurisdictions to identify how processing patterns affect criminal case outcomes. It will provide a framework for linking operational data across multiple agencies
- [Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/research-on-the-science-and-technology-enterprise-indicators-statistics-and-methods/) - Due: June 17, 2025 The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies within the United States. It is responsible for the collection, acquisition, analysis, reporting and dissemination of objective, statistical data related to the science and technology (S&T) enterprise
- [Reimagining Available Vaccines and Envisioning Novelty](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/reimagining-available-vaccines-and-envisioning-novelty/) - Due: June 13, 2025 The Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO) within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) supports the warfighter through medical countermeasure development for biological threats, both known and unknown. Preventative treatments and vaccines offer proactive solutions to biological threats; however, many of the current countermeasure platform technologies have stagnated through single threat
- [Optimizing Behavioral Sleep Interventions for Adolescents and Young Adults](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/optimizing-behavioral-sleep-interventions-for-adolescents-and-young-adults/) - Due: June 13, 2025 NIMH seeks applications for pilot research to adapt, optimize, and test empirically supported behavioral interventions that address common sleep problems in adolescents and young adults with or at risk for a mental health disorder. Pilot trials should be designed to evaluate the feasibility, tolerability, acceptability, safety, and potential effectiveness of the
- [Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/discovery-and-development-of-natural-products-for-cancer-interception-and-prevention/) - Due: June 13, 2025 The overall goal of this UG3/UH3 Exploratory/Developmental phased initiative is to support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, nontoxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention. 1. Purpose of UG3: Select clinically relevant targets and develop and validate assays for bioactivity as well as toxicity screening
- [Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (MMCA)](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/molecular-mechanisms-of-combination-adjuvants-mmca/) - Due: June 10, 2025 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants (combination adjuvants) in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert. All adjuvants considered must have previously demonstrated immune modulating activity. The long-term goal of this research program
- [Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/silvio-o-conte-centers-for-basic-neuroscience-or-translational-mental-health-research/) - Due: June 9, 2025 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages applications for Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research. The NIMH seeks teams of researchers working at different levels of analysis and employing integrative, novel, and creative experimental approaches to address high-risk, high-impact questions with the primary objectives of: (a)
- [C4ISR, Information Operations, Cyberspace Operations and Information Technology System Research, Cryogenics and Quantum Broad Agency Announcement](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/c4isr-information-operations-cyberspace-operations-and-information-technology-system-research-cryogenics-and-quantum-broad-agency-announcement/) - Due: June 9, 2025 Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific (NIWC Pacific) is soliciting white papers and proposals in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.102(d)(2), FAR 35.016 and Department of Defense Grant and Agreement Regulations (DoDGARS) 22.315(a) which provides for competitive selection of basic research, applied research, advanced technology development, and advanced component development and
- [HEAL Initiative: Interdisciplinary Team Science to Uncover the Mechanisms of Pain Relief by Medical Devices](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/heal-initiative-interdisciplinary-team-science-to-uncover-the-mechanisms-of-pain-relief-by-medical-devices/) - Due: June 9, 2025 More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain, a highly debilitating medical condition that is complex and difficult to manage. In recent decades, there has been an overreliance in the prescription of opioids for chronic pain despite their poor ability to improve function and high addiction liability. This contributed
- [Industrialization and Translation of Extracellular Vesicles For Use In Regenerative Medicine](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/industrialization-and-translation-of-extracellular-vesicles-for-use-in-regenerative-medicine-ut1-ut2-clinical-trial-not-allowed/) - DUE: June 7, 2025 STTR Opportunity: Supporting the development of extracellular vesicle technologies for regenerative medical applications Closed
- [Providing Customer Service for a National Secure Data Service Through a Data Concierge](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/providing-customer-service-for-a-national-secure-data-service-through-a-data-concierge/) - Due: June 6, 2025 The key objective of this effort is to establish a centralized resource providing a broad set of services that support the discovery, acquisition, access, and appropriate use of federal and state statistical data to enable effective decision-making. Currently, connecting data users with federal and state statistical data requires navigating a complex
- [Host-Directed Therapeutics](https://nta.org/2025/05/20/host-directed-therapeutics/) - Due: June 6, 2025 The JPEO-CBRND is interested in late-stage development of host-directed therapeutics or repurposing of United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed therapeutics that are threat-agnostic with the potential for activity across viral or toxin families. The candidate(s) should have demonstrated activity targeting the patient’s immune response to infection or illness caused
- [Industrialization and Translation of Extracellular Vesicles for use in Regenerative Medicine](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/industrialization-and-translation-of-extracellular-vesicles-for-use-in-regenerative-medicine/) - Due: June 6, 2025 This FOA provides support using the SBIR cooperative agreement mechanisms for the development of novel extracellular vesicle-based therapeutic platforms for use in regenerative medicine. Both native and engineered EVs have demonstrated the ability for specific and targeted tissue and organ repair, which can be harnessed for applications such as extracellular vesicle-based
- [High-Priority Research in Tobacco Regulatory Science](https://nta.org/2025/06/03/high-priority-research-in-tobacco-regulatory-science/) - Due: June 6, 2025 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to invite R01 applications to support new high-priority biomedical and behavioral research that will provide scientific data to inform the regulation of tobacco products to protect public health. Research Projects must address the current high-priority research topics related to the regulatory
- [MSD Prevention Safety Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/04/28/msd-prevention-safety-innovation-challenge/) - Due: June 5, 2025 Through the MSD Prevention Safety Innovation Challenge, the National Safety Council is interested in innovative solutions that reduce the frequency or severity of musculoskeletal disorders by mitigating MSD-related risks in the workplace, such as forceful exertion, awkward postures and repetitive motion. In-scope approaches include, but are not limited to: Exoskeletons that
- [Immune Microphysiological Systems, IMPS](https://nta.org/2025/04/23/immune-microphysiological-systems-imps/) - Due: May 31, 2025 JSTO is charged with addressing the potential threat to the armed services posed by a wide range of pathogenic and toxic agents. In support of warfighter readiness, vaccines build a defense against known and future threats. However, the development of vaccines is stymied by traditional in vitro or in vivo models, which are slow and
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Operational Energy and Logistics](https://nta.org/2025/02/26/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-operational-energy-and-logistics/) - Due: May 30, 2025 Addressing Critical Technologies and National Priorities Submit your transformative operational energy, logistics, and cybersecurity of critical infrastructure technology or solution. In alignment with U.S. national priorities, we are proud to announce the TechConnect Critical Technologies Challenge: Operational Energy, Logistics, and Cybersecurity. This is an open innovation program designed to accelerate transformative
- [USGS Earthquake Hazards Program External Research Support Announcement for Fiscal Year 2026](https://nta.org/2025/05/16/usgs-earthquake-hazards-program-external-research-support-announcement-for-fiscal-year-2026/) - Due: May 28, 2025 The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP) issues this annual Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for assistance to support research in earthquake hazards, the physics of earthquakes, earthquake occurrence, and earthquake safety policy. It is estimated that a total of $4 million will be awarded in support of competitive research grants in
- [TREXII Red Giant](https://nta.org/2025/04/23/trexii-red-giant/) - Due: May 27, 2025 The Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) is looking for information related to classified technology development. In this Request for Information (RFI), TRMC is seeking input from industry for the following questions only: What is a rough-order-of-magnitude (ROM), cost and schedule estimate, to develop and integrate a technological solution that can replicate
- [Orbital Edge Accelerator](https://nta.org/2025/04/03/orbital-edge-accelerator/) - Due: May 26, 2025 We live in a golden era of space industry innovation and growth that creates amazing opportunities for ambitious entrepreneurs. The Orbital Edge Accelerator seeks to identify and assist the most promising of such business builders as they convert their visions into reality. Uniting an unprecedented team of global investors, technology providers
- [Development of Resources and Technologies for Enhancing Rigor, Reproducibility, and Translatability of Animal Models in Biomedical Research](https://nta.org/2025/05/16/development-of-resources-and-technologies-for-enhancing-rigor-reproducibility-and-translatability-of-animal-models-in-biomedical-research/) - Due: May 25, 2025 The Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) encourages resource-related research grant applications aimed at developing broadly applicable technologies, tools, and resources for validating animal models and enhancing rigor, reproducibility, and translatability of animal research. Proposed studies, models, resources, or technologies submitted under this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) must either address research
- [SOFWERX: Down Range Crosswind Sensing (DR-CWS)](https://nta.org/2025/04/23/sofwerx-down-range-crosswind-sensing-dr-cws/) - Due: May 21, 2025 The objective of this topic is to develop applied research towards developing the capability to measure downrange crosswind for long range precision small-arms engagements. DESCRIPTION:As a part of this feasibility study, the proposers shall address all viable overall system design options for a tactical,man-portable, monostatic device for optically sensing down-range crosswind
- [Far Forward Biological Sequencing (FFBS), Increment 2](https://nta.org/2024/08/22/far-forward-biological-sequencing-ffbs-increment-2/) - Anticipated Release: Q1FY26 FFBS Increment 2 will focus on automating the sample preparation process and meeting any key performance parameter thresholds that were not met during the development of FFBS Increment 1. This is a completely separate requirement from FFBS Increment 1. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
- [CBRN Sensor Integration On Robotic Platforms (CSIRP) Capability Set (CS) 4.0](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/cbrn-sensor-integration-on-robotic-platforms-csirp-capability-set-cs-4-0/) - Anticipated Release: Q4FY25 The Government is seeking proposals for development and integration of new CBRN sensing payloads, using common interfaces, on a range of unmanned ground, sea, and air platforms. This includes integration of sensor data into autonomous threat mapping efforts and command control networks. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons
- [Portable Patient Transport System – Enhanced Biodefense, PPTS-ENBD](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/portable-patient-transport-system-enhanced-biodefense-ppts-enbd/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q3FY25 PPTS-ENBD will provide a biocontainment isolation system to safely transport personnel infected or suspected of infection from a biological threat. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being
- [Portable Patient Transport System -Enhanced Biodefense (PPTS-ENBD) / PPMT](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/portable-patient-transport-system-enhanced-biodefense-ppts-enbd-ppmt/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q4FY24 The Portable Patient Transport System Enhanced Biodefense (PPTS ENBD) is a patient transport system that enables safe transport of asymptomatic, symptomatic, or infected patients while ensuring that the medical attending personnel and platform crew members are protected from exposure. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
- [ConnectWerx: Solar Workforce Technical Assistance Program](https://nta.org/2025/02/26/connectwerx-solar-workforce-technical-assistance-program/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBA ConnectWerx, a Partnership Intermediary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in collaboration with the Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) will establish a Solar Workforce Technical Assistance Program to support effective workforce training programs for careers in solar energy. The program will facilitate partnership building and peer-to-peer learning opportunities and provide
- [Modular AI/LLM Tools and Data Services for Integration with Digital OnRamp](https://nta.org/2025/04/24/modular-ai-llm-tools-and-data-services-for-integration-with-digital-onramp/) - Anticipated Release Date: TBA The future of modular AI integration is here, and we're seeking cutting-edge solutions to revolutionize how government and industry harness the power of artificial intelligence. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Digital OnRamp is a best-in-class AI/LLM platform that will be the front door for Private Sector and Government users to rapidly
- [2025 Space Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/12/17/space-innovation-challenge-2/) - Due: May 2, 2025 The future of space exploration and commercialization demands cutting-edge technology to support the next generation of missions. Join us at the Space Innovation Challenge where up to 20 leading innovators will present breakthrough solutions in satellite systems, propulsion, advanced manufacturing, and space operations to an expert panel of industry, government, and
- [Counter Uncrewed Systems (C-UXS) Survey](https://nta.org/2025/03/25/counter-uncrewed-systems-c-uxs-survey/) - Due: April 30, 2025 The purpose of this survey is to collect responses from industry and government organizations about their C-UXS. Submissions will be reviewed for potential inclusion in future test events, demonstrations, and continuous monitoring of the C-UXS market. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Expeditionary Missions Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations
- [Acceleration to include Synthetic Training Environment Software (STE-SW)](https://nta.org/2025/03/20/acceleration-to-include-synthetic-training-environment-software-ste-sw/) - Due: April 28, 2025 The Army’s future training capability is the Synthetic Training Environment (STE). The STE will be a single, converged training system that provides a training environment, in which units from Soldier/Squad through Army Service Component Command (ASCC) conduct both collective and constructive training. The STE is envisioned to converge Live, Virtual, and
- [Omnibus Solicitation of the NIH and CDC for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications](https://nta.org/2024/09/04/2025-04-omnibus-solicitation-of-the-nih-and-cdc-for-small-business-innovation-research-grant-applications/) - April 25, 2025 This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO), issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invites eligible United States small businesses to submit Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications. United States small businesses that have the research capabilities and technological expertise to
- [Regional Partnerships for Geothermal Data](https://nta.org/2025/01/13/regional-partnerships-for-geothermal-data/) - Due: April 22, 2025 ConnectWerx, a Partnership Intermediary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) offers a funding opportunity in collaboration with the Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) for regional partnerships to support geothermal data acquisition and dissemination. The intent of this initiative is to accelerate the responsible deployment of geothermal energy in multiple underdeveloped regions of the
- [Health Security Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/health-security-innovation-challenge/) - Due: April 16, 2025 About Advancing Next-Generation Solutions for Prevention, Protection and Rapid Response As global health threats continue to evolve, we need breakthrough innovations that strengthen prevention, detection, treatment, and protection against biological, chemical, and environmental hazards. The Health Security Innovation Challenge and $200K Prize calls on biotech pioneers, materials scientists, engineers, AI experts, and innovators to
- [Digital CB Threat Mapping](https://nta.org/2025/04/07/digital-cb-threat-mapping/) - Due: April 14, 2025 Chemical and biological (CB) contamination on surfaces such as vehicles is often not visible to the naked eye. When potential CB contamination is identified, it takes significant resources including manpower, time, and cleaning solution to decontaminate while also putting personnel at significant risk of contamination. Therefore, digital maps of the contamination
- [NSF/CASIS Transport Phenomena Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/nsf-casis-transport-phenomena-research-at-the-international-space-station-to-benefit-life-on-earth/) - Due: April 10, 2025 The Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) and the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing innovation (CMMI) in the Engineering Directorate (ENG) and the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) are partnering with
- [2025 Expertise in Subterranean Corrosion Science Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/03/17/2025-expertise-in-subterranean-corrosion-science-sprint/) - Due: April 18, 2025 A global resource extraction company seeks professionals with significant knowledge and experience in subterranean corrosion. Consultative engagement and other collaboration opportunities possible for respondents with expertise in corrosion chemistry, mechanics or simulation. OPPORTUNITY TechConnect’s client, a leading resource extraction company, utilizes various steel components such as hollow and solid tendons, cables,
- [Cybersecurity Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Partner with OnBoard Security To Prevent Drone Hacker Attacks](https://nta.org/2018/06/05/cybersecurity-researchers-at-johns-hopkins-university-partner-with-onboard-security-to-prevent-drone-hacker-attacks/) - Cybersecurity researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) have partnered with Boston-based OnBoard Security - a company that develops products for vehicle communication security - to prevent hacker attacks that could cause drones to engage in hazardous mid-air maneuvers. Drones rely on Sense and Avoid, or SAA, technology, in which safety-related messages
- [Webinar: MOSA as a Combat Capability: Implementing Open Standards for Mission Success](https://nta.org/2025/03/13/webinar-mosa-as-a-combat-capability-implementing-open-standards-for-mission-success/) - Live Date: April 9, 2025 The Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) is more than a technical requirement—it is a combat capability critical to maintaining the U.S. military’s technological and operational edge. As threats evolve, the ability to rapidly integrate and upgrade defense systems is essential for mission success. Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring
- [NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CONSORTIUM FOR NONPROLIFERATION](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/nuclear-science-and-engineering-consortium-for-nonproliferation/) - Due: April 4, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D) drives innovative research that develops technologies and expertise to detect foreign nuclear proliferation activities and produces technologies for integration into operational systems by leveraging capabilities at the DOE National Laboratories, Plants,
- [NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds](https://nta.org/2024/09/04/2025-04-nsf-national-quantum-virtual-laboratory-quantum-testbeds/) - Due: April 1, 2025 The National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act1aims to ensure the continuing leadership of the United States (U.S.) in quantum information science and technology. With this program solicitation, the Foundation is taking the next step in implementing the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) concept as an overarching shared infrastructure designed to facilitate the
- [Uncrewed Systems (UXS) Survey](https://nta.org/2025/03/25/uncrewed-systems-uxs-survey/) - Due: March 31, 2025 The purpose of this survey is to collect responses from industry and government organizations about their Uncrewed Systems (UXS). Submissions will be reviewed for potential inclusion in future test events, demonstrations, and continuous monitoring of the UXS market. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Expeditionary Missions Consortium. This Consortium releases
- [Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (CARBIRUs)](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/combating-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-interdisciplinary-research-units-carbirus/) - Due: March 26, 2025 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support multidisciplinary research programs focused on discovery to early development research to inform new approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Closed
- [Expeditions in Computing](https://nta.org/2024/09/04/2025-03-expeditions-in-computing/) - Due: March 31, 2025 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- [Expeditions in Computing](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/expeditions-in-computing/) - Due: March 26, 2025 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
- [PHYSIC Physiological Human Systems Integration and Computation (Software Prototype)](https://nta.org/2025/02/26/physic-physiological-human-systems-integration-and-computation-software-prototype/) - Due: March 26, 2025 DTRA JSTO’s Enabling Science and Technology Division, Information Sciences Branch (RD-CBEI) is seeking to develop a high fidelity computational platform consisting of a suite of applications for chemical and biological human health effects modeling integrated with high fidelity physiological representations and simulations to provide a modeling framework capability that supports operational
- [Technologies For Silica Dust Management Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/02/26/10322/) - Due: March 25, 2025 BACKGROUND TechConnect’s client, a large multinational firm, processes a variety of mineral ores in its facilities. The transportation and processing of those materials generates silica dust, a known respiratory and mechanical hazard. To improve the comfort and safety of its employees and reduce mechanical degradation of equipment, TechConnect’s client seeks next-generation
- [Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/mathematical-foundations-of-digital-twins/) - Due: March 17, 2025 The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) plan to jointly support foundational mathematical and statistical research on Digital Twins in applied sciences. Recent years have witnessed a significant
- [Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/great-lakes-fish-monitoring-and-surveillance-program/) - Due: March 14, 2025 The Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program (GLFMSP) helps EPA satisfy statutory requirements under section 118 of the Clean Water Act to establish a Great Lakes system-wide surveillance network to monitor the water quality of the Great Lakes, with a special emphasis on the monitoring of toxic pollutants. The goals
- [Experts in Encapsulation Technologies for Food Applications Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/02/14/experts-in-encapsulation-for-low-ph-applications-sprint/) - Deadline: March 14, 2025 TechConnect’s client is a global leader in beverages with dozens of well-known brands. The client is interested in utilizing encapsulation technologies to improve the solubility of ingredients and the overall stability of their products, as well as to allow for the slow release of ingredients. To that end, the client wants
- [Scalable Solutions Office: Office-Wide Innovative Solutions Opening for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health](https://nta.org/2024/09/04/2025-03-scalable-solutions-office-office-wide-innovative-solutions-opening-for-advanced-research-projects-agency-for-health/) - Due: March 14, 2025 This ISO seeks solution summaries and proposals for projects that fall within the general scope of the ARPA-H Scalable Solutions mission office. SSO expands what is technically possible by developing approaches that will leverage an interdisciplinary approach and collaborative networks to address challenges of geography, distribution, manufacturing, data and information, thereby
- [Environmental System Science (ESS)](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/environmental-system-science-ess/) - Due: March 13, 2025 The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The goal of the ESS program in BER is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological,
- [Targeting Inflammasomes in HIV and Substance Use](https://nta.org/2024/09/04/2025-03-targeting-inflammasomes-in-hiv-and-substance-use/) - Due: March 13, 2025 The scientific objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to encourage research to delineate the role of inflammasomes in the neuropathology produced by acute or chronic drug exposure and HIV infection. Understanding the involvement of inflammasomes in virus and drug-induced immune activation may help identify molecular markers and CNS immune cells
- [High Throughput, Small Volume Injection Technology Sprint](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/2025-high-throughput-small-volume-injection-technology-sprint/) - Due: March 13, 2025 TechConnect’s global client produces a variety of polymer-based consumer products. One such product is a small cube with a liquid reservoir at its center. To produce the cubes, liquid is injected into a large slab of polymer in dozens of locations. The slab is approximately 1cm thick, ranges in width from
- [High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain Innovative Technology Notice of Funding Opportunity](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/high-assay-low-enriched-uranium-haleu-nuclear-fuel-supply-chain-innovative-technology-notice-of-funding-opportunity/) - Due: March 12, 2025 High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Nuclear Fuel Supply Chain Innovative Technology Notice of Funding Opportunity: This Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeks applications to address technological advancement across the front-end nuclear fuel cycle to ensure the development of a safe, sustainable and efficient supply chain of enriched uranium, enhancing current processes, and
- [High Performance PPE for Extreme Environments](https://nta.org/2025/02/14/high-performance-ppe-for-extreme-environments/) - Due: March 13, 2025 TechConnect’s client, a large multinational materials corporation, operates facilities that experience high temperatures and loud noises. To adequately protect themselves, workers wear an array of personal protective equipment (PPE) including hard hats, ear protection, face protection and thermally reflective aluminum fabric suits. For communication amongst themselves and with others on-site, workers
- [WaterSMART Environmental Water Resources Projects 2024](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/watersmart-environmental-water-resources-projects-2024/) - Due: March 11, 2025 The United States Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America’s Resources for Tomorrow) Program provides a framework for Federal leadership and assistance to stretch and secure water supplies for future generations in support of DOI’s priorities. Through WaterSMART, Reclamation leverages Federal and non-Federal funding to work cooperatively with
- [In Vivo Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/in-vivo-non-invasive-optical-imaging-approaches-for-biological-systems/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The purpose of the Advancing Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems initiative is to overcome the problem of light scattering in biological systems. Current optical imaging techniques that are non-invasive and allow rapid assessment of tissue function and structure suffer from strong light scattering within biological tissues, limiting the penetration
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/critical-technology-challenge-advanced-materials-and-manufacturing/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in materials science and manufacturing. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance the development of
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: AI and Digital Transformation](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-ai-and-digital-transformation/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Artificial Intelligence is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in AI and machine learning. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that drive advancements in AI technologies, enhance
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Biotech And Medical](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-biotech-and-medical/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Biotech and Medical is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in biotechnology and medical innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in biomanufacturing, enhance
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Electronics and Microsystems](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-electronics-and-microsystems/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Electronics and Microsystems is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in electronics and microsystems innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in microelectronics, enhance
- [TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy](https://nta.org/2025/02/19/techconnect-critical-technology-challenge-energy/) - Due: March 7, 2025 The TechConnect Critical Technology Challenge: Energy is a premier open innovation program designed to accelerate solutions to the most pressing challenges in electronics and microsystems innovation. Aligned with the critical technology priorities identified by the federal government, this Challenge seeks bold, transformative ideas that advance breakthroughs in microelectronics, enhance system integration,
- [Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/coupling-energetics-and-dynamics-of-atmospheric-regions/) - Due: March 5, 2025 The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program supports research to increase our understanding of the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere. Projects explore coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales. The research topics include
- [Department of Army Energetics Basic Research Center (EBRC) Fiscal Year 2025](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/department-of-army-energetics-basic-research-center-ebrc-fiscal-year-2025/) - Due: April 7, 2025 The future Army is projected to be unable to achieve dominance in range and lethality due to inadequate energetic formulations and form factor limitations associated with current weapon systems. Basic research generates new knowledge that may be exploited to develop and deliver new materials and technologies that contribute to enhanced lethal
- [Webinar: Unlocking the Power of MOSA: Practical Insights from the SOSA™ and FACE™ Consortia](https://nta.org/2025/01/13/webinar-unlocking-the-power-of-mosa-practical-insights-from-the-sosa-and-face-consortia/) - Join the National Technology Alliance for an engaging conversation with Judy Cerenzia, Vice President of Forum Operations at The Open Group, as we dive into the practical implementation of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and its transformative impact across defense and non-defense applications. In this session, she will unpack how the Sensor Open Systems Architecture
- [Civic Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2025/02/11/civic-innovation-challenge/) - Due: March 3, 2025 The Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. By addressing priorities at the local scale that are relevant across the US, CIVIC is laying the foundation for a broader and more
- [Smart Cities Smart Bases Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/12/16/smart-cities-smart-bases-innovation-challenge/) - Due: March 1, 2025 The Smart Cities Smart Bases Innovation Challenge is looking for you to deliver cutting-edge, dual-use technologies that address the intersecting technical, environmental, and security challenges faced by both smart cities and smart military bases. Apply now for a chance to present your solution on stage in April 2025 at Smart Cities Connect Conference
- [Human Virome Program: Developing novel and innovative tools to interrogate and annotate the human virome](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/human-virome-program-developing-novel-and-innovative-tools-to-interrogate-and-annotate-the-human-virome/) - Due: February 27, 2025 The Common Fund Human Virome Program aims to extensively characterize the human virome and create tools, models, and methods that will enable an in-depth study of its variation in relation to host factors and its influence on health and disease. The purpose of this NOFO is to address the technological challenges
- [Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas - Fiscal Year 2025 Release](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/energy-improvements-in-rural-or-remote-areas-fiscal-year-2025-release/) - Due: February 27, 2025 Rural and remote areas often have higher energy costs and burden, less resilient energy systems, and fewer alternatives for accessing clean energy compared with their urban counterparts. Furthermore, small communities do not always have the available time, money, or other resources to pursue clean energy options. This Energy Improvements in Rural
- [Atmospheric System Research (ASR)](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/atmospheric-system-research-asr/) - Due: February 27, 2025 The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) within BER’s Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division (EESSD). ASR supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological
- [Medical Devices for Pediatric Population Affected by Substance Use and Addiction](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/medical-devices-for-pediatric-population-affected-by-substance-use-and-addiction/) - Due: February 26, 2025 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications from small business concerns (SBCs) proposing research and development of medical devices specifically indicated for pediatric population (i.e., 0-21 years old, as defined by the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health) affected by substance use and
- [Lactose Polymerization Technologies](https://nta.org/2025/01/29/lactose-polymerization-technologies/) - Due: February 26, 2025 A multi-billion-dollar global food and beverage company seeks innovative technologies for converting lactose into a dairy-based stabilizer. Enzymatic or fermentation approaches are strongly preferred, but other approaches are potentially of interest. Many foods, such as ice cream and cream cheese, rely on stabilizing agents to maintain the smooth textures demanded by
- [Webinar: Semper Supra: Collaborating with the United States Space Force](https://nta.org/2025/01/13/webinar-semper-supra-collaborating-with-the-united-states-space-force/) - The United States Space Force (USSF) is the branch of the US military service dedicated to advancing and protecting American interests in space, and like virtually every other government agency, it depends on innovations from the private sector to complete its mission. SpaceWERX is the innovation arm of the USSF, providing billions in funding for
- [Developing Regulated Therapeutic and Diagnostic Solutions for Patients Affected by Opioid and/or Stimulants use Disorders](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/developing-regulated-therapeutic-and-diagnostic-solutions-for-patients-affected-by-opioid-and-or-stimulants-use-disorders/) - Due: February 24, 2025 This funding opportunity announcement strives to contribute to the emergence of new solutions by seeking applications to conduct research and development activities for novel medical products which would address the needs of patients suffering from OUD/StUD. Investigators and developers of biomedical technologies that lead to the prevention, monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment
- [Climate Resilience Centers](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/climate-resilience-centers/) - Due: February 20, 2025 The DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in applications from the scientific community for Climate Resilience Centers (CRCs) that will improve the availability and utility of BER research, data, models, and capabilities to address climate resiliency, particularly by underrepresented or vulnerable communities. BER’s mission
- [Enabling Discovery through GEnomics](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/enabling-discovery-through-genomics/) - Due: February 20, 2025 Through the Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) program, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) support research to advance understanding of comparative and functional genomics. The EDGE program supports the development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification
- [Addressing Challenges in Detecting New Drugs: Instrumentation for Alternative Analytical Methods](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/addressing-challenges-in-detecting-new-drugs-instrumentation-for-alternative-analytical-methods/) - Due: February 19, 2025 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage applications from Small Business Concerns (SBCs) to pursue the translation of target-agnostic technologies with sensitivity and selectivity similar to liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Applications received in response to this NOFO are expected to address development of such devices with
- [Algorithms for Threat Detection](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/algorithms-for-threat-detection/) - Due: February 19, 2025 The Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for analysis of large spatiotemporal datasets with application to quantitative models of human dynamics. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science
- [Physical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/physical-oceanography/) - Due: February 17, 2025 The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the
- [Chemical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/chemical-oceanography/) - Due: February 18, 2025 The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and
- [Carbon Capture Technology Program, Front-end Engineering and Design for Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Transport](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/carbon-capture-technology-program-front-end-engineering-and-design-for-carbon-dioxide-co2-transport/) - Due: February 12, 2025 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will fund Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies that support and accelerate the planning for CO2 transport by a variety of modes. Due to the immediate need for CO2 transport servicing multiple points of capture and one or more points of storage, the first round of
- [ConnectWerx: Off Shore Wind Transmission Standardization Consortia](https://nta.org/2024/09/12/connectwerx-off-shore-wind-transmission-standardization-consortia/) - Due: November 1, 2024 at 5pm ET The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office (GDO), in collaboration with ConnectWerx, the Partnership Intermediary under a newly established Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA), has opened an initial funding opportunity for a specialized, independent consultant or academic entity to lead a consortium of technical experts that identifies
- [Algorithms for Modern Power Systems](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/algorithms-for-modern-power-systems/) - Due: February 10, 2025 The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. The program is a partnership between the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science
- [Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/artificial-intelligence-formal-methods-and-mathematical-reasoning/) - Due: February 7, 2025 The Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing) program seeks tosupport research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery. Mathematical reasoning is a central ability of human intelligence that plays an important role in knowledge discovery.
- [Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for NSWC Crane](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/long-range-broad-agency-announcement-baa-for-nswc-crane/) - Due: February 7, 2025 The mission of NSWC Crane is to provide research, development, test and evaluation, acquisition engineering, in-service engineering and technical support in its assigned technical capabilities for the United States Navy, Department of Defense components and agencies, and other federal agencies and components engaged in national security. NSWC Crane also works to
- [2025 Smart Cities Startup Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/12/17/2025-smart-cities-startup-challenge/) - Due: February 7, 2025 Join the nation's largest city-focused startup pitch program, showcasing hundreds of cutting-edge innovations addressing top urban challenges. Don't miss this opportunity to pitch your solutions to leading city decision makers, investors, industry & military tech scouts, and government funding offices. In alignment with the U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($550
- [Applied Field Research on Ecological Functions at Living Shoreline Installations](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/applied-field-research-on-ecological-functions-at-living-shoreline-installations/) - Due: February 6, 2025 The research will address the following 2 objectives: Objective 1: Collaborate with ERDC researchers to develop and apply qualitative and quantitative metrics that evaluate the ecological function (i.e., biomass productivity, sediment accumulation, habitat provisioning, etc.) within and adjacent to living shoreline and natural shoreline sites. The metrics and results will be
- [Development of Alternative Human Models of Radiation-Induced Injuries](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/development-of-alternative-human-models-of-radiation-induced-injuries/) - Due: February 6, 2025 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support early to mid-stage research focused on development of alternative human models of acute and/or delayed radiation-induced injuries (extracorporeal systems) to elucidate mechanisms of injury and to test medical countermeasures to treat and/or mitigate these injuries. Closed
- [Human Networks and Data Science](https://nta.org/2025/01/22/human-networks-and-data-science/) - Due: February 6, 2025 The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify ways in which dynamic, distributed, or heterogeneous data can provide novel answers to fundamental questions about individual or
- [RFS 25-04/25-JXR-0007 Low Cost Unmanned Maritime Solution](https://nta.org/2024/11/26/rfs-25-04-25-jxr-0007-low-cost-unmanned-maritime-solution/) - Due: January 31, 2025 This RFS will be issued to address the need of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division in support of OUSD R&E DASD P&E Maritime Domain Portfolio is seeking solutions for multi-mission operability and survivability requirements while also being capable of prescribed communication and detection methods. The Government is requesting two
- [Ocean Acidification Coastal Research: Uniting Investigations and Shipboard Experiments (OA CRUISE)](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/ocean-acidification-coastal-research-uniting-investigations-and-shipboard-experiments-oa-cruise/) - Due: January 31, 2025 NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) is soliciting proposals to complement core observing activities on its upcoming East Coast Ocean Acidification Cruise (ECOA-4), which targets U.S. Coastal Large Marine Ecosystems on the North American East Coast from the Scotian Shelf to the port of Miami, extending from shore to beyond the shelf
- [Systems Integrating iNnovativeSolutions To Enable Rapid detection (SINISTER)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/systems-integrating-innovativesolutions-to-enable-rapid-detection-sinister/) - Due: January 28, 2025 Develop novel multi-functional detection indicator technology for vapor and aerosol hazards aimed at decreasing burden via easy-to-use SWaP-C solutions. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right
- [Broad Spectrum Therapeutics](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/broad-spectrum-therapeutics/) - Deu: January 24, 2025 This effort will execute all of the necessary partnerships, implement necessary quality assurance and project management systems to enable the discovery and development of a prototype MCM. Enhanced White Papers (EWP) and its accompanying draft Statement of Work needs to indicate whether it is proposing a solution to Thrust Area 1,
- [Organismal Response to Climate Change](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/organismal-response-to-climate-change/) - Due: January 23, 2025 This solicitation calls for proposals that integrate the study of organismal mechanisms of response to climate change (ORCC) with eco-evolutionary approaches to better predict and mitigate the effects of a rapidly changing climate on earth’s living systems. Specific areas of emphasis include but are not limited to integrating physiology and genomics
- [Passive Water-Harvesting Device to Cool Solar Cells and Boost Efficiency](https://nta.org/2025/01/21/passive-water-harvesting-device-to-cool-solar-cells-and-boost-efficiency/) - An international team of researchers led by Professor Qiaoqiang Gan at KAUST in Saudi Arabia has created a new device that collects atmospheric water to cool solar cells. As the device is capable of extracting water from the air using nothing more than gravity, it requires no electricity, and is constructed of cheap, readily available
- [Transparent Solar Cells to Power Devices Through Glass](https://nta.org/2025/01/15/transparent-solar-cells-to-power-devices-through-glass/) - Professor Kwanyong Seo and his research team at the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in Korea have developed a new method that can directly charge a battery from the glass of buildings, cars, and mobile devices through transparent solar cells. An ‘all-back-contact’ (ABC) design that places all the components of the solar
- [UH Develops Wearable Sensor to Diagnose Brain Disorders via Eye Movement](https://nta.org/2024/11/05/uh-develops-wearable-sensor-to-diagnose-brain-disorders-via-eye-movement/) - An engineering team from the University of Houston (UH) in Texas has developed wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess potential problems with the brain. This monitoring can be a simple - yet effective - diagnostic tool, as abnormal eye movements are known to be linked to various types of brain disorders, physical/mental shocks
- [TMU Unveils High-Efficiency Carbon Capture for Green Fuel Production](https://nta.org/2024/11/21/tmu-unveils-high-efficiency-carbon-capture-for-green-fuel-production/) - A major development in carbon capture and utilization technology has been achieved by researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU). They have developed a new type of electrochemical cell that can effectively convert a product derived from captured carbon into a potent source of green fuel. This innovative technique overcomes major challenges in reactive carbon capture
- [Plant-Based Nanoparticle Therapy Targets Glioblastoma with Precision](https://nta.org/2025/01/09/plant-based-nanoparticle-therapy-targets-glioblastoma-with-precision/) - Scientists at Wuhan’s Renmin Hospital in China and Yale University have collaborated to develop a new plant-based nanoparticle treatment for glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is a rapidly growing and highly invasive brain tumor, impacting approximately 250,000 people globally each year. Following diagnosis, the average survival time for glioblastoma patients is only 14 to 16 months, making it
- ['SpinMagIC' Sensor Detects Free Radicals with Portable EPR Technology](https://nta.org/2024/12/05/spinmagic-sensor-detects-free-radicals-with-portable-epr-technology/) - Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin institute (HZB) and the University of Stuttgart in Germany have developed an 'EPR on a chip' sensor that can detect free radicals, even at very low concentrations. This portable, small, and inexpensive sensor - called ‘SpinMagIC’ -will first be used in the production of olive oil and beer, but the
- [MIT Develops Breakthrough Natural Filter to Remove PFAS and Heavy Metals from Water](https://nta.org/2025/01/07/mit-develops-breakthrough-natural-filter-to-remove-pfas-and-heavy-metals-from-water/) - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new filtration material that is highly effective at removing PFAS and heavy metals from water. PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are highly prevalent and pose a significant threat to our health and environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has estimated that cleaning up this contamination
- [Air-Based Cooling System Eliminates Harmful Refrigerants](https://nta.org/2024/12/27/air-based-cooling-system-eliminates-harmful-refrigerants/) - A team at The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a cooling system that uses air as a refrigerant. This new technology eliminates the need for harmful cooling chemicals - such as freon gas, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) - that contribute to global warming. “Due to environmental regulations, refrigeration systems that primarily use refrigerants
- [Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor Pathway to Deployment](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/generation-iii-small-modular-reactor-pathway-to-deployment/) - Due: January 17, 2025 This solicitation makes available approximately $900 million in federal funds for projects that will create a credible and sustainable pathway to fleet-level deployment of Gen III+ SMRs. Gen III+ SMRs can provide around-the-clock electricity or process heat to meet the increasing demand for clean, reliable, firm electricity generation or process heat
- [FY24 Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/fy24-scale-up-of-integrated-biorefineries/) - Due: January 16, 2025 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0003371 FY24 Scale-up of Integrated Biorefineries supports higher risk bioenergy technologies that are ready to scale, ultimately demonstrating feedstock-conversion variations, or production pathways, to support commercialization and meet the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge goal of 35 billion gallons per year of SAF production by 2050
- [U.S.-Danish Floating Offshore Wind Energy Mooring and Anchoring Research and Development](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/u-s-danish-floating-offshore-wind-energy-mooring-and-anchoring-research-and-development/) - Due: January 14, 2025 This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO). This funding opportunity is coordinated with Innovation Fund Denmark to support U.S.-Danish consortia collaborating on shared research objectives. EERE
- [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applied to Nuclear Science and Technology](https://nta.org/2025/01/06/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-applied-to-nuclear-science-and-technology/) - Due: January 14, 2025 The DOE SC program in Nuclear Physics (NP) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for research and development (R&D) efforts directed at artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for autonomous optimization and control of accelerators and detectors of relevance to current or next generation NP accelerator facilities and scientific
- [Webinar: Integrating SAF/AQRE Initiatives: Co-Maturing DAF Capabilities in the Digital Domain](https://nta.org/2024/11/07/integrating-saf-aqre-initiatives-co-maturing-daf-capabilities-in-the-digital-domain/) - To meet the Air Force’s operational goals, the Department of the Air Force (DAF), led by Chief Engineer Ms. Kristen Baldwin, is advancing key enabling technologies. As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, Technology, and Engineering (SAF/AQR), Ms. Baldwin drives priorities like cyber-resilient weapon systems, digital engineering, and innovation investments to support mission readiness. SAF/AQR’s focus
- [Webinar: Commercial Space: There and Back Again](https://nta.org/2024/09/24/webinar-commercial-space-there-and-back-again/) - A “weightless” astronaut. A satellite connecting a phone call from opposite sides of the world. Breathtaking images of astronomical phenomena from deep space. For all the amazing things that happen IN orbit, commercial space companies and government agencies alike depend on robust, high quality ground operations ON Earth. Enter the rise of the spaceport: a
- [Webinar: MOSA x US Army On Agile Value Streams](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/webinar-mosa-x-us-army-on-agile-value-streams/) - Explore how the US Army is leveraging Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) to enhance agility and accelerate innovation through value streams. MOSA is reshaping defense technology by promoting the integration of scalable, modular solutions that align with rapidly changing mission needs. In this webinar, we will discuss how Agile Value Streams are streamlining processes, improving
- [Accelerating Interconnection Through AI (AI4AX)](https://nta.org/2024/12/09/accelerating-interconnection-through-ai-ai4ax/) - Due: January 10, 2025 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Grid Deployment Office, through a Partnership Intermediary Agreement, has opened an initial funding opportunity for up to $30 million available to accelerate the interconnection process for new energy generation through the introduction of artificial intelligence techniques. The new Artificial Intelligence for Interconnection (AI4IX) program will
- [Modulating Human Microbiome Function to Enhance Immune Responses Against Cancer](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2025-01-modulating-human-microbiome-function-to-enhance-immune-responses-against-cancer/) - Due: January 7, 2025 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support basic research that elucidates mechanisms by which the human microbiome inhibit or enhance anti-tumor immune responses, and to identify potential novel molecular targets for cancer prevention strategies. Applications should be focused on delineating how host interactions with specific microbes (or
- [Novel Tools and Devices for Animal Research Facilities and to Support Care of Animal Models](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2025-01-novel-tools-and-devices-for-animal-research-facilities-and-to-support-care-of-animal-models/) - Due: January 5, 2025 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages applications from small business concerns (SBCs) for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects to develop novel tools and devices to improve handling of laboratory animals, to ease the management of animal facilities, and to enhance experiments which use animal models. The intent is to facilitate
- [Seeking Innovations to Renew and Strengthen Fibers during washing clothes](https://nta.org/2024/11/19/seeking-innovations-to-renew-and-strengthen-fibers-during-washing-clothes/) - Due: December 30, 2024 Desired outcome The world leader in Laundry Products is looking for innovative technologies to be incorporated into laundry products in the following areas:1) Renew effect: solutions that maintain the appearance of new textiles for a longer period and improves the condition of damaged textiles, not only in cotton but also in
- [White-Nose Syndrome Research for Conservation Grants](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-12-white-nose-syndrome-research-for-conservation-grants-2024/) - Due: December 15, 2024 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) makes funding available for research and conservation action to support the management of white-nose syndrome (WNS) and susceptible bat species. The Service leads the coordinated National Response to WNS and provides financial and technical assistance to nongovernmental, university, and private researchers, as well as
- [Command and Control (C2) for Collaborative Combat Aircraft](https://nta.org/2024/10/16/command-and-control-c2-for-collaborative-combat-aircraft/) - Due: December 13, 2024 This RFS will be issued to address the need of Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division who is seeking solutions that would successfully integrate existing autonomous air vehicle platforms and advanced communication prototypes allowing for secure tactical communications between multiple similarly configured platforms and provision networked data capabilities. The Government
- [Offshore Wind Workforce Readiness](https://nta.org/2024/12/09/offshore-wind-workforce-readiness/) - Due: December 13, 2024 WETO is looking to support education and training programs that offer (a) apprenticeship readiness programs, (b) registered apprenticeship programs, or (c) maritime/mariner programs, with particular attention to programs that support underserved communities. Recipients of this funding can include local or state governments, Tribes, workforce boards, institutions of higher education (especially Minority
- [DoD Combat Readiness - Medical, Translational Research Award](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-12-dod-combat-readiness-medical-translational-research-award/) - Due: December 5, 2024 The intent of the FY24 CRRP TRA is to support high-impact translational research that will accelerate innovative ideas into clinical applications, including health care products, technologies, and/or practice guidelines. Research funded under this award mechanism will be hypothesis-driven, high-impact applied research that is relevant to Service Members, Veterans, their Families, and
- [Halting Tuberculosis (TB) Transmission](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-12-halting-tuberculosis-tb-transmission/) - Due: December 4, 2024 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to understand the critical drivers of tuberculosis (TB) transmission at the individual and population levels in high-burden settings; to develop effective methods to measure rates of TB transmission that rely on an increased understanding of the biomedical basis of transmission and
- [Archaeometry](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-12-archaeometry/) - Due: December 2, 2024 The goal of this effort is to fund projects in two main categories: 1) to develop or refine anthropologically relevant archaeometric techniques. Examples include the development of methods to identify specific types of organic residues on ceramics or development of field applicable analytic techniques and 2) to support laboratories which provide
- [Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-11-ecology-and-evolution-of-infectious-diseases/) - Due: November 20, 2024 The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be the quantitative, mathematical, or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles
- [Check-In and Check-Out (CICO) Solution](https://nta.org/2024/11/11/check-in-and-check-out-cico-solution/) - Due: December 2, 2024 This project is to provide enhancements to the SWAT Check-In and Check-Out applications in the Appian environment and implementing enhancements within the workflow. The objective is to build and to integrate these capabilities into the current applications managed within SWAT. The Scalable Workflow Automation Tool (SWAT) Check-In application serves as the
- [Specialized Alcohol Research Centers](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-11-specialized-alcohol-research-centers/) - Due: November 15, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for specialized Alcohol Research Centers using the P50 mechanism. The overall purpose of the NIAAA Alcohol Research Center program is to provide leadership in conducting and fostering interdisciplinary, collaborative research on a wide variety of topics relevant to the Institutes mission. These topics
- [DEVELOPING AND DEMONSTRATING NANOSENSOR TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT, MONITOR, AND DEGRADE POLLUTANTS](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/0204-11-developing-and-demonstrating-nanosensor-technology-to-detect-monitor-and-degrade-pollutants/) - Due: November 13, 2024 This funding opportunity is soliciting research to develop and demonstrate nanosensor technology with functionalized catalysts that have the potential to degrade selected contaminants in addition to detecting and monitoring pollutants. Specifically, EPA is seeking proposals that use nanotechnology to detect, monitor, and degrade PFAS in groundwater or surface water that may
- [Improved Modular Fuel Delivery Station (iMFDS) Prototype Development and Testing](https://nta.org/2024/10/16/improved-modular-fuel-delivery-station-imfds-prototype-development-and-testing/) - Due: November 13, 2024 Navy’s existing at-sea refueling capabilities and quantities do not meet the distributed maritime operations plan. There are not enough Combat Logistics Force (CLF) vessels to cover the vast sea space of the western Pacific outside of the traditional hub and spoke type fueling station. In the mid-1980s, a modular fuel delivery
- [New Water-Resistant COFs Offer Scalable Solution for CO2 Capture and Emission Control](https://nta.org/2024/10/15/new-water-resistant-cofs-offer-scalable-solution-for-co2-capture-and-emission-control/) - A team of researchers, led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the University of Siegen, have developed a stable covalent organic framework (COF) with potential for large-scale CO2 capture. It is particularly suitable for various applications, including greenhouse gas reduction, due to its solvent-free, scalable synthesis method and water-resistant properties. The COF is based
- [From Pollution to Solution: James Cook University Converts Microplastics into High-Value Graphene for Environmental Applications](https://nta.org/2024/09/01/from-pollution-to-solution-james-cook-university-converts-microplastics-into-high-value-graphene-for-environmental-applications/) - A team at James Cook University in Australia has developed a breakthrough method that easily converts microplastics into graphene that could be used for several applications, such as the manufacturing of various sensors and water purification, as well as the absorption of PFAS. “Approximately 30 mg of microplastics produced nearly 5 mg of graphene in
- [Shape-Shifting Robots: NC State’s ‘Transformer’ Bots Redefine Adaptability for Space and Structural Applications](https://nta.org/2024/11/06/shape-shifting-robots-nc-states-transformer-bots-redefine-adaptability-for-space-and-structural-applications/) - A research team at North Carolina State (NC State) University has created shape-shifting ‘Transformer’ robots that use just three active motors to change a single plastic cubed structure into over 1,000 different shapes. They expect that the technology could lead to the creation of artificial systems that can change shape and bear loads, such as
- [Deep Orange 15: Clemson and DEVCOM’s Semi-Autonomous Ground Rescue Vehicle Pioneers Next-Gen Battlefield Medical Response](https://nta.org/2024/11/11/deep-orange-15-clemson-and-devcoms-semi-autonomous-ground-rescue-vehicle-pioneers-next-gen-battlefield-medical-response/) - The US Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) recently unveiled a semi-autonomous ground rescue vehicle,named Deep Orange 15. The rescue vehicle was designed by students at Clemson University. Deep Orange 15 is equipped with advanced technologies designed to address the most challenging scenarios faced during rescue operations, including: a semi-active suspension system that ensures a
- [RWP KIN-24-03 Critical Chemicals for Defense](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/2024-11-rwp-kin-24-03-critical-chemicals-for-defense/) - Due: November 6, 2024 Seeking chemicals suppliers to create a more resilient industrial base, increase domestic capacity, increase competition, and thereby drive down chemical products cost. This opportunity may require no-cost membership in DIBC. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage
- [Low-Profile Radiation Surveillance (LPRS) System](https://nta.org/2024/10/22/low-profile-radiation-surveillance-lprs-system/) - Due: November 5, 2024 In conjunction with the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND), the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control (ODASD-TRAC) is seeking innovative prototype solutions to enable Special Operations Forces (SOF) to locate and identify radiological or nuclear (R/N)
- [Deciphering the Impact of RNA Modifications on Brain Aging and AD/ADRD](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-11-deciphering-the-impact-of-rna-modifications-on-brain-aging-and-ad-adrd/) - Due: November 1, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to catalyze innovative research to elucidate the molecular landscape and functional implications of RNA modifications in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD). AD-related dementias include Lewy body dementia (LBD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), vascular cognitive impairment/dementia (VCI/D), and
- [Novel Approaches for Radiation Biodosimetry and Medical Countermeasure Development](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-11-novel-approaches-for-radiation-biodosimetry-and-medical-countermeasure-development/) - Due: November 1, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support exploratory and conceptual research projects in radiation research focused on medical countermeasures, biodosimetry, and animal model development to diagnose/mitigate/treat injuries arising from radiation exposure during a public health emergency. This NOFO is intended to support development of preliminary data
- [RPP-2024-01 Commercialization](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/2024-10-rpp-2024-01-commercialization/) - Due: November 1, 2024 This solicitation is issued by the CWMD Consortium Manager (CM), Advanced Technology International (ATI), represents a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) for the 2024 “CWMD Commercialization Grant” mechanism. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so
- [RPP-2024-01 Commercialization](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/2024-10-rpp-2024-01-commercialization-2/) - Due: November 1, 2024 This solicitation is issued by the MCDC Consortium Manager (CM), Advanced Technology International (ATI), represents a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) for the 2024 “MCDC Commercialization Grant” mechanism. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this
- [Industrial Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, and Decarbonization (ISEED) Workforce Development Collaborative](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/2024-11-industrial-sustainability-energy-efficiency-and-decarbonization-iseed-workforce-development-collaborative/) - Due: November 1, 2024 at 5pm ET More than 11 million US workers are employed in the manufacturing and industrial sector, working in a variety of areas from iron and steel to food and beverages. Despite the manufacturing industry’s well-established capabilities for training, job placement, and career support, some critical gaps still exist in sustainability,
- [Safety Innovation Challenge: Heat Stress](https://nta.org/2024/10/01/2024-11-safety-innovation-challenge-heat-stress/) - Deadline: November 1, 2024 Heat stress poses a considerable risk to workers across various industries and organizations. Exposure to extreme heat can not only lead to an array of illnesses and injuries, but can also impact worker productivity, cognitive function, mental health and overall wellbeing. Working in high-heat environments can lead to both serious injuries and
- [xTechHBCU Student 2024-2025](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-10-xtechhbcu-student-2024-2025/) - Due: October 30, 2024 The U.S. Army invites Historically Black Colleges and Universities students to participate in xTechHBCU Student — an xTech Program competition for eligible students to earn prize money, engage with the Department of Defense, participate in a unique accelerator program and potentially develop a prototype of their concept as final competition winners.
- [Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Developmental Pipeline](https://nta.org/2024/10/22/medical-countermeasure-mcm-developmental-pipeline/) - Due: October 28, 2024 The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), in its role as the Joint Science and Technology Office (JSTO), seeks to establish an improved drug discovery and development platform that has the capabilities and efficiency to deliver fast and effective MCMs against biothreats and/or pathogens of military concern. Currently, the drug discovery, design,
- [Call For NAVSEA Energy Storage Solutions](https://nta.org/2024/10/01/2024-10-call-for-navsea-energy-storage-solutions/) - Due: October 25, 2024 The U.S. Navy seeks cutting edge, dual-use energy storage technologies addressing critical national challenges. The US Department of Defense (DOD) invites new and innovative approaches that address critical technology needs and alleviate current and future supply chain risks in military batteries. Solution ideas should be described sufficiently so that their merit
- [Development and Validation of Human Cellular Models for Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-10-development-and-validation-of-human-cellular-models-for-alzheimers-disease-related-dementias/) - Due: October 21, 2024 This NOFO would support development and validation of novel clinically- and/or pathophysiologically-relevant human cellular models of ADRD. The cellular model systems would be expected to capture the multi-faceted pathologies and multiple cell types observed in ADRDs. Validation includes internal, face, construct, and predictive (to the extent possible) validation. These models can
- [The Chronic Pancreatitis Clinical Research Consortium (CPCRC)- Clinical Centers](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-10-the-chronic-pancreatitis-clinical-research-consortium-cpcrc-clinical-centers/) - Due: October 18, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites U01 applications for the continuation of the consortium to study Chronic Pancreatitis, Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer (CPDPC) to conduct and complete ongoing studies on chronic pancreatitis (CP) and factors that increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in patients (children and adults) with CP, pancreatogenic
- [Handheld Spectrometer System Prototype for Waveguide-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy](https://nta.org/2024/09/19/2024-10-handheld-spectrometer-system-prototype-for-waveguide-enhanced-raman-spectroscopy/) - Due: October 15, 2024 Chemical Biological Center, Research and Technology Directorate, Sensor Technologies and BioMaterials Division, Spectroscopy Branch is seeking a solution for sensitive and selective detection of hazardous vapors. To develop a handheld, battery-operated, prototype Raman spectrometer system that can communicate wirelessly and is suitable for use for WERS-based detection of hazardous vapors. The
- [Digital Proving Ground Three Dimensional Passive Sensing](https://nta.org/2024/10/07/digital-proving-ground-three-dimensional-passive-sensing/) - Due: October 9, 2024 Sensors and sensor systems. This opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity.
- [Novel Coatings For Smart Surfaces](https://nta.org/2023/02/22/novel-coatings-for-smart-surfaces/) - Due: March 24, 2023 Smart surfaces react to external forces such as light, heat or pressure. These surfaces can, for example, change texture, color or shape depending on the intensity, duration and location of the stimulus applied. Smart surfaces can provide display information, respond to environmental stressors or preserve operational ability, to name a few.
- [Health Tech and Space Sprint](https://nta.org/2023/02/27/health-tech-and-space-sprint/) - Due: April 20, 2023 A famous actor, who portrayed a futuristic space captain and later became an actual astronaut, once described space as the final frontier. From exploration and research to manufacturing and potential off-world settlements, humanity is making those immortal worlds a reality through modern technologies. Access to space provides unique opportunities to create
- [Advanced Manufacturing Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/02/28/advanced-manufacturing-challenge/) - Due: March 31, 2023 Join the nation's largest Advanced Manufacturing Acceleration program, connecting top fabrication technologies aligned with our nation's most critical challenges from the Navy Manufacturing Technology Program (ManTech). Pitch your technical project proposal to major OEMs and military leadership, representing multi-billion in funded projects seeking dual-use solutions aligned with Naval focused investment areas.
- [Electronic Warfare Test (EWT) 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT)](https://nta.org/2023/03/01/electronic-warfare-test-ewt-5th-generation-aerial-target-5gat/) - Due: March 23, 2023 by 12 pm ET Provide a threat representative 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) prototype. The anticipated agreement is for development and integration testing of an affordable, unmanned, low observable, model-based, full-scale aerial target prototype aircraft/s and support of the government-led ground and flight testing. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Training
- [Improve/Manage Energy Efficiency for the DON's Non-nuclear Deployable Power Generators](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/improve-manage-energy-efficiency-for-the-dons-non-nuclear-deployable-power-generators/) - DUE: August 15, 2023 Seeking technologies to improve/manage energy efficiency for the Department of the Navy's non-nuclear deployable power generators. CLOSED
- [Improve Launch and Recovery of Air, Sea Surface, and UUV from Naval Vessels](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/improve-launch-and-recovery-of-air-sea-surface-and-uuv-from-naval-vessels/) - DUE: August 15, 2023 Seeking innovations which improve launch and recovery of air, sea surface, and undersea unmanned vehicles from Naval Vessels. CLOSED
- [Enhance Mission Capabilities of USV/UUV and Systems](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/enhance-mission-capabilities-of-usv-uuv-and-systems/) - DUE: August 15, 2023 Seeking technologies to deliver next generation performance for unmanned surface and subsurface vessels for Navy operations. CLOSED
- [Expand Lethality of Technologies of Maritime Mining and Mine Countermeasures](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/expand-lethality-of-technologies-of-maritime-mining-and-mine-countermeasures/) - DUE: August 15, 2023 Seeking innovations in minefield management, detection, and lethality. CLOSED
- [Improved Dispensing of Food-Grade Gels](https://nta.org/2023/08/17/improved-dispensing-of-food-grade-gels/) - DUE: September 14, 2023 ABSTRACT A Fortune 500 food company requires innovative technologies for dispensing a high viscosity liquid mixture into molds. The client is interested in all approaches that minimize or eliminate tailings. BACKGROUND Food manufacturers utilize a variety of dispensing equipment based on the material involved. TechConnect's client, a global food and snack
- [TReXII-RFS-23-09](https://nta.org/2023/08/28/trexii-rfs-23-09/) - Due: September 19, 2023 DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC) Collaborative Defense This opportunity requires membership in the TReXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete
- [Salt Application Innovations For Food](https://nta.org/2023/08/31/salt-application-innovations-for-food/) - Due: September 28, 2023 A Fortune 500 international food and beverage company is interested in innovative lab-scale technologies to apply topical salt on small batches of baked snacks such as savory crackers or biscuits. Currently, tumbler coating equipment is being used, which is effective for some snacks but does have limitations: salt coats all sides
- [Request For Information (RFI) for Biological Sequencing and in field Sample Preparation](https://nta.org/2023/09/06/request-for-information-rfi-for-biological-sequencing-and-in-field-sample-preparation/) - DUE: September 21, 2023 Request For Information (RFI) for Biological Sequencing and in field Sample Preparation. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to
- [CWMD-RPP-23-07 – IEW Phase I](https://nta.org/2023/09/06/cwmd-rpp-23-07-iew-phase-i/) - DUE: September 21, 2023 This OTA will cover CBRN Cloud infrastructure, Decision Support tools, CDS Integration, Containerization, CBRN Warning, Reporting, and Hazard Prediction, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in support of CSC2. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so
- [MCDC-RPP-23-01: Manufacturing Optimization](https://nta.org/2023/09/06/mcdc-rpp-23-01-manufacturing-optimization/) - DUE: October 2, 2023 MCDC-RPP-23-01: Manufacturing Optimization Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [VOUCHER OPPORTUNITY: Pre-Demonstration Commercialization Support (OCED/EERE)](https://nta.org/2023/09/14/voucher-opportunity-pre-demonstration-commercialization-support-oced-eere/) - DUE: September 26, 2023 Voucher program for for-profit entities that have received other support from the DOE in the past 5 years. Funds to be used for bankability studies, manufacturing/supply chain assessments, community benefits assessments, and other technoeconomic analyses. CLOSED
- [VOUCHER OPPORTUNITY: Performance Validation, Modeling, and Certification Support (OCED/EERE)](https://nta.org/2023/09/14/voucher-opportunity-performance-validation-modeling-and-certification-support-oced-eere/) - DUE September 26, 2023 Voucher program for for-profit entities working to commercialize or demonstrate in a large energy infrastructure system a clean energy prototype/product. Program to support obtaining Performance Validation, Modeling, and Certification Support, including failure-mode studies, testing to obtain industry-relevant certifications, system performance modeling, digital twin development, and other real-world testing environments. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Plasma Physics](https://nta.org/2023/09/14/grant-opportunity-plasma-physics/) - Due: November 20, 2023 Open call for projects within the field of plasma physics for all sub-areas including magnetized plasmas in the laboratory, space, and astrophysical environments; high energy density plasmas; low temperature plasmas; dusty, ultra-cold, and otherwise strongly coupled plasmas; non-neutral plasmas; and intense field-matter interaction in plasmas. CLOSED
- [VOUCHER OPPORTUNITY: Commercialization Support (EERE)](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/voucher-opportunity-commercialization-support-eere/) - DUE: September 26, 2023 Voucher program for for-profit entities that have received other support from the DOE in the past 5 years. Funds to be used for market assessment, business plan formulation, fundraising road-mapping (from both public and private sources), and commercialization strategy. CLOSED
- [VOUCHER OPPORTUNITY: Clean Energy Demonstration Project Siting/Permitting Support (OCED/EERE)](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/voucher-opportunity-clean-energy-demonstration-project-siting-permitting-support-oced-eere/) - DUE: September 26, 2023 Voucher program to assist states, local governments, tribes, and other Authority Having Jurisdictions (AHJs) interested in learning about and facilitating clean energy demonstration project siting and permitting processes with a goal of streamlining siting and permitting processes to advance commercialization and demonstration of innovative clean energy technologies. CLOSED
- [VOUCHER OPPORTUNITY: Commercialization Support (FECM)](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/voucher-opportunity-commercialization-support-fecm/) - DUE: September 26, 2023 Voucher program intended for carbon management or resource sustainability innovators and technology developer including, but not limited to, for-profit technology development firms. The goal of the program is to provide independent assessment of Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) technologies and practices for carbon management technologies and performance validation support for resource
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-windows-on-the-universe-the-era-of-multi-messenger-astrophysics/) - DUE: October 16, 2023 Open call for projects seeking to utilize the three categories of messengers (electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles including neutrinos and cosmic rays, and gravitational waves) to better understand astronomical objects and events. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Rapid Response Fund for Aquatic Invasive Species](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-rapid-response-fund-for-aquatic-invasive-species/) - DUE: October 18, 2023 Funding opportunity for technologies to rapidly detect, locate and eradicate invasive aquatic species. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms Underlying Gait as a Preclinical Marker for Alzheimers Disease and Alzheimers Disease-Related Dementias](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-neural-and-non-neural-mechanisms-underlying-gait-as-a-preclinical-marker-for-alzheimers-disease-and-alzheimers-disease-related-dementias/) - DUE: November 3, 2023 Funding to investigate the neural and/or non-neural mechanisms that underlie the association between gait and cognition in aging and Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). CLOSED
- [Renewable Energy Siting through Technical Engagement and Planning (R-STEP) Assessment Event](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/renewable-energy-siting-through-technical-engagement-and-planning-r-step-assessment-event/) - DUE: November 3, 2023 The DOE is looking to establish cross-disciplinary collaboratives to to expand state and local capacity on large-scale renewable energy siting and planning. CLOSED
- [Capacity Building for Repurposing Energy Assets](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/capacity-building-for-repurposing-energy-assets/) - DUE: November 6, 2023 The DOE is identifying promising community-based government or nongovernmental organizations to assist with building the technical capacity and workforce needed to help revitalize energy systems, address environmental impacts, and tackle changes associated with energy assets that have been retired, or are slated for retirement. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-smart-health-and-biomedical-research-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence-and-advanced-data-science/) - DUE: November 9, 2023 Interagency program to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-ecology-and-evolution-of-infectious-diseases/) - DUE: November 15, 2023 The multi-agency Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, organismal, and social drivers that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases with a central focus on the quantitative, mathematical, or computational aspects of pathogen transmission dynamics. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: FY2024 Weather Program Office Research Programs](https://nta.org/2023/09/15/grant-opportunity-fy2024-weather-program-office-research-programs/) - DUE: November 16, 2023 Support from NOAA for new weather, water, and earth system observing and forecasting applications, including improved analysis techniques, better statistical or dynamic forecast models and techniques, and communication of that information to better inform the public. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures (SynQuaNon)](https://nta.org/2023/09/20/grant-opportunity-synthetic-quantum-nanostructures-synquanon/) - DUE: October 10, 2023 The SynQuaNon program aims to develop and benchmark novel routes to enhanced superconducting (SC) nanoelectronic devices based on electronic metamaterials. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Pioneering Railroad, Oceanic, and Plane Electrification with 1K Energy Storage Systems](https://nta.org/2023/09/20/grant-opportunity-pioneering-railroad-oceanic-and-plane-electrification-with-1k-energy-storage-systems/) - DUE: October 17, 2023 The Pioneering Railroad, Oceanic and Plane ELectrification with 1K Energy Storage Systems (PROPEL-1K) program aims to support the research and development of alternative approaches to energy storage to ultimately achieve a > 4x improvement compared to existing state-of-the-art (SoA) options. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program](https://nta.org/2023/09/20/grant-opportunity-drinking-water-system-infrastructure-resilience-and-sustainability-program/) - DUE: November 6, 2023 The EPA is soliciting applications from eligible entities for projects in underserved communities that are disadvantaged or serve a population of less than 10,000 individuals to increase drinking water system resilience to natural hazards. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Desalination and Water Purification Research Program](https://nta.org/2023/09/20/grant-opportunity-desalination-and-water-purification-research-program/) - DUE: November 15, 2023 Funding opportunity for technologies to develop innovative, cost-effective, and technologically efficient ways to desalinate and treat water. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics](https://nta.org/2023/09/20/grant-opportunity-advancing-u-s-thin-film-solar-photovoltaics/) - DUE: December 12, 2023 Funding opportunity for accelerating the capabilities of two thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies: metal-halide perovskite PV and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV technologies. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Collaborative Science to Achieve Disruptive Innovations in Dental, Oral and Craniofacial](https://nta.org/2023/09/26/grant-opportunity-collaborative-science-to-achieve-disruptive-innovations-in-dental-oral-and-craniofacial-doc/) - DUE: November 22, 2023 Funding opportunity to support highly integrated research teams to address challenging questions with the potential to significantly advance dental, oral and craniofacial (DOC) fields of research. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Developing Salivary Components as Therapeutics for Oral Health](https://nta.org/2023/09/26/grant-opportunity-developing-salivary-components-as-therapeutics-for-oral-health/) - DUE: November 22, 2023 Supporting interdisciplinary research that harnesses the functional components of saliva towards therapeutics. CLOSED
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Exploratory/Developmental Grants on Lifestyle Medicine Research Related to the World Trade Center Health Program](https://nta.org/2023/09/26/grant-opportunity-exploratory-developmental-grants-on-lifestyle-medicine-research-related-to-the-world-trade-center-health-program/) - DUE: December 5, 2023 Funding for research related to diagnostic or treatment uncertainty of eligibile 9/11 World Trade Center survivors and responders. CLOSED
- [Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects](https://nta.org/2023/09/26/grant-opportunity-division-of-physics-investigator-initiated-research-projects/) - DUE: December 12, 2023 Supporting physics research and the preparation of future scientists in the nation’s colleges and universities across a broad range of physics disciplines including Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics; Elementary Particle Physics; Gravitational Physics; Integrative Activities in Physics; Nuclear Physics; Particle Astrophysics; Physics at the Information Frontier; Physics of Living Systems; Plasma
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Innovative Technologies to Eliminate Flaring from Oil and Natural Gas Production](https://nta.org/2023/09/26/grant-opportunity-innovative-technologies-to-eliminate-flaring-from-oil-and-natural-gas-production/) - DUE: December 27, 2023 Soliciting cost-shared research proposals for pilot-scale field deployment and validation of efficient, cost-effective solutions ready for pre-commercialization that can eliminate flaring and non-safety related venting of natural gas at the well site. CLOSED
- [Defense Business Accelerator (DBX) Microelectronics Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/09/28/due-10-12-2023-defense-business-accelerator-dbx-microelectronics-challenge/) - Due: October 12, 2023 The Challenge, in a major initiative to innovate how the Department of Defense (DoD) spurs commercial technology development, will open doors for industrial base growth and stimulate private investment. It will accelerate solution development and improve longevity of suppliers. Following an open solicitation for submissions, finalists will pitch at Defense TechConnect Innovation
- [Establishing Circularity for Food and Beverage Containers](https://nta.org/2023/09/29/due-10-25-2023-establishing-circularity-for-food-and-beverage-containers/) - DUE: October 25, 2023 Dart Container, the global leader in containers for food and beverages, is committed to improving their sustainability profile. From the recyclability & compostability of their products to their consumer-led Take-Back program, Dart is working to enhance the environmental footprint of their products and processes. Now Dart Container wants to expand their sustainability efforts
- [Opposing Force Mechanized Vehicle Replacement Visual Modifications](https://nta.org/2023/10/04/due-10-18-23-opposing-force-mechanized-vehicle-replacement-visual-modifications/) - Due: October 18, 2023 Opposing Force Mechanized Vehicle Replacement (OMVR) Visual Modifications (VISMODS) This opportunity requires membership in the TReXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity.
- [National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Central Repository: Data-Centric Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-10-20-23-national-institute-of-diabetes-and-digestive-and-kidney-diseases-niddk-central-repository-data-centric-challenge/) - Due: October 20, 2023 The goals of the NIDDK-CR Data Centric Challenge will be to 1) generate an “AI-ready” dataset that can be used for future data challenges, and 2) to produce methods that can be used to enhance the AI-readiness of NIDDK data. CLOSED
- [StatVentures Supply Chain Challenge Phase 2](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-09-23-statventures-supply-chain-challenge-phase-2/) - Due: November 9, 2023 Phase 2 of a three part challenge designed to improve the data collection and utilization by the Census Bureau regarding national supply chains. CLOSED
- [DARPA Triage Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-13-23-darpa-triage-challenge/) - Due: November 13, 2023 The DARPA Triage Challenge (DTC) aims to drive breakthrough innovations in identification of “signatures” of injury that will help medical responders perform scalable, timely, and accurate triage. Closed
- [First Responder UAS 3D Mapping Challenge (UAS 5.0)](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-1-19-24-first-responder-uas-3d-mapping-challenge-uas-5-0/) - Due: January 19, 2024 Multi-stage challenge designed to identify technologies that will provide first responders with real-time data to improve situational awareness CLOSED
- [Harnessing Data Visualization to Advance Equity in Clinical Services](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-1-5-24-harnessing-data-visualization-to-advance-equity-in-clinical-services/) - Due: January 5, 2024 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is announcing a Challenge competition to accelerate the identification and elimination of disparities in the receipt of clinical preventive services. Closed
- [DRADx® Tech Fetal Monitoring Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-17-23-radx-tech-fetal-monitoring-challenge/) - Due: November 17, 2023 The RADx® Tech Fetal Monitoring Challenge will award up to $2.0 million in prizes to accelerate the development of diagnostic and monitoring technologies to reduce the risk of fetal morbidity and mortality CLOSED
- [Rapid and Affordable Point-of-Care HPV Diagnostics for Cervical Cancer Control](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-14-23-rapid-and-affordable-point-of-care-hpv-diagnostics-for-cervical-cancer-control/) - Due: November 14, 2023 The overarching goal of this initiative is to bring new alternatives for HPV testing to the market that will enable self-testing programs to be established globally at point-of-care or near point-of-care. CLOSED
- [Point-of-Care Detection of Prostate Specific Antigen](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-14-23-point-of-care-detection-of-prostate-specific-antigen/) - Due: November 14, 2023 The development of an accurate, inexpensive home test for Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) is both an unmet need and an NCI priority for reducing cancer mortality by half within 25 years. CLOSED
- [Small Manufacturing Systems for Research Grade Pharmaceutical Intermediates](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-14-23-small-manufacturing-systems-for-research-grade-pharmaceutical-intermediates/) - Due: November 14, 2023 This initiative seeks proposals from the small business community to support the development of compact tools and devices capable of manufacturing key chemical intermediates at the benchtop for research operations. CLOSED
- [Instructional System Design (ISD) Analysis Using AI Large Language Models](https://nta.org/2023/10/06/due-11-13-23-instructional-system-design-isd-analysis-using-ai-large-language-models/) - Due: November 13, 2023 The objective of this challenge is to develop initial proof of concept prototypes using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large language models to automate the process of conducting ISD analysis, requirements development, for Ready Relevant Learning (RRL). CLOSED
- [Military Prototype Advancement Initiative](https://nta.org/2023/10/09/due-1-15-24-military-prototype-advancement-initiative/) - Due: January 22, 2024 Fiscal Year 2024 Military Prototype Advancement Initiative (MPAI) The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is excited to post this Request for Project Proposals (RPP) to solicit current MTEC members for a broad range of medical prototype technological and knowledge solutions related to the FY24 priorities identified in this RPP. Proposed solutions may
- [Improved Coverage for Low pH Surface Cleaners on Glazed Ceramic Hard Surfaces](https://nta.org/2023/10/13/due-1-10-24-improved-coverage-for-low-ph-surface-cleaners-on-glazed-ceramic-hard-surfaces/) - Due January 10, 2024 Improved Coverage for Surface Cleaners on Glazed Ceramic Surfaces Challenge Brief What we’re looking for: Reckitt is in search of potential partners, subject matter experts, and innovative solutions that can enhance the coverage of surface cleaners on vertically inclined, glazed ceramic hard surfaces. The surface could be a washbasin, a toilet
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Building Neuroscience Research Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) in Africa](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2024-2-grant-opportunity-building-neuroscience-research-infrastructure-for-alzheimers-disease-ad-and-ad-related-dementias-adrd-in-africa/) - DUE: February 14, 2024 Funding opportunity to support the development/enhancement of infrastructure (e.g., tools, surveys, biospecimens, data) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD) neuroscience research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa. Closed
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Understanding and Leveraging Small Vessel Cerebrovascular Disease Mechanisms in ADRD](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2024-2-grant-opportunity-understanding-and-leveraging-small-vessel-cerebrovascular-disease-mechanisms-in-adrd/) - DUE: February 1, 2024 Supporting research designed to advance fundamental understanding of basic disease-related molecular mechanisms of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). Closed
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) Approaches to AD/ADRD](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2024-2-grant-opportunity-chimeric-antigen-receptor-car-approaches-to-ad-adrd/) - DUE: February 7, 2024 Funding available to provide a proof-of-principle for a novel strategy for Alzheimer Disease and Alzheimer Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) immunotherapies. Closed
- [GRANT OPPORTUNITY: Marine Debris Removal](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2024-2-grant-opportunity-marine-debris-removal/) - DUE: February 23, 2024 Funding opportunity supporting impactful, large marine debris removal projects that will improve the resilience of the coastal and marine environment and implement strategies to prevent the re-accumulation of marine debris. Closed
- [Passive Data Collection Using Autonomous Documentation](https://nta.org/2023/10/23/due-2023-11-passive-data-collection-using-autonomous-documentation/) - Due: November 20, 2023 AutoDoc Request for Project Proposals (RPP) focused on identifying a system of sensor suites that can reliably and passively collect the core data needed to identify casualty status, key tasks performed by medics, and real-time resource use in casualty care scenarios under realistic battlefield conditions. This demonstration and prize competition focuses
- [Helicopter Expedited Refueling Operations](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-helicopter-expedited-refueling-operations/) - Due: May 2, 2024 Helicopter forward arming and refueling point (FARP) operations are inefficient, resulting in extended periods of aircraft unavailability, leaving ground combat teams without support — putting them in tremendous danger. And, the longer FARPs/personnel remain stationary to conduct these operations, the more vulnerable they become to enemy attack. The Army is interested
- [Advanced Differential Diagnostics (ADD)](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/advanced-differential-diagnostics-add/) - Anticipated Release: Q4FY27 Host response based test to predict illness severity. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are
- [Investigating Distinct and Overlapping Mechanisms in TDP-43 Proteinopathies, including in LATE, FTD and other ADRDs](https://nta.org/2024/10/03/investigating-distinct-and-overlapping-mechanisms-in-tdp-43-proteinopathies-including-in-late-ftd-and-other-adrds/) - Due: October 4, 2024 This FOA would support establishing deeper mechanistic insight and causal relationships between TDP-43 pathology and phenotypic outcomes, as well as mechanistic interactions between TDP-43 and other co-pathologies, such TMEM106B. Additionally, it would include comparisons (including mechanistic, molecular, structural, cellular, genetic, -omic, anatomical, neuropathological, etc.) between TDP-43 proteinopathies, including LATE, with or
- [Psychedelic Treatment Research Clinical Trial Award](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-10-psychedelic-treatment-research-clinical-trial-award/) - Due: October 4, 2024 The intent of the Psychedelic Treatment Research Clinical Trial Award is to support clinical trials with eligible U.S. Service Members to evaluate treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI) involving the use of covered psychedelic substances. Treatment may involve the use of covered psychedelic substances alone or
- [DoD Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Focused Program Award](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-10-dod-traumatic-brain-injury-and-psychological-health-focused-program-award/) - Due: October 3, 2024 The intent of the FY24 TBIPHRP FPA is to accelerate the development of solutions to critical question(s) related to at least one sub-area within one of the three FY24 TBIPHRP FPA Focus Areas. The award mechanism supports execution of a synergistic, multidisciplinary research program with the potential to have a significant
- [NSTIC Request for Prototype Projects: Multiple](https://nta.org/2023/10/27/due-2023-11-nstic-request-for-prototype-projects-multiple/) - Due: November 15, 2023 Areas of Need: This opportunity requires membership in the Naval Surface Technology and Innovation Consortium (NSTIC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete
- [Military Dental Research: New Technologies and Development Partners](https://nta.org/2023/10/27/due-2023-11-military-dental-research-new-technologies-and-development-partners/) - Due: November 30, 2023 This RPI focuses on surveying the current state of engineering and medical prototypes, knowledge products, and manufacturing capacity related to military dental research. Project information papers will be reviewed by the Sponsor and used in a manner that shapes NAMD efforts in this technology space. The results of the project information paper
- [Advancing Clinical Trial Readiness Initiative](https://nta.org/2023/11/02/due-2023-12-advancing-clinical-trial-readiness-initiative/) - Due: December 1, 2023 The Advancing Clinical Trial Readiness (ACTR) initiative seeks to improve the nation’s ability to conduct clinical trials safely, quickly, and equitably. This is important to advance, integrate, and extend clinical trial capabilities that overcome challenges in evaluating new technologies, therapies, and platforms. Ambitiously, this effort seeks to enable 90% of all
- [Simulation & Optimization of Biscuit Cookie Trays](https://nta.org/2023/11/07/due-2023-12-simulation-optimization-of-biscuit-cookie-trays/) - Due: December 5, 2023 ABSTRACT Mondelez, the global snack and cookie company, seeks to optimize the design and manufacturing of their plastic trays through simulation. Through this project, the company hopes to identify modeling partners to collaborate with for improved design and optimization of thermoformed trays. BACKGROUND From airplanes to automobiles, logistics to rockets, designers
- [Gene-Encoded Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Development and Response Platform](https://nta.org/2023/11/09/due-23-12-gene-encoded-medical-countermeasure-mcm-development-and-response-platform/) - Due: December 04, 2023 The Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radioactive, and Nuclear Defense – Enabling Biotechnologies (JPEO-CBRND-EB) program office has been established to implement comprehensive and integrated systems to rapidly discover, develop, manufacture, test and deliver Medical Countermeasures (MCM) for emergency use in response to meet the requirements of the Warfighter and
- [Waterless Solutions for Decontamination](https://nta.org/2023/11/09/due-23-11-waterless-solutions-for-decontamination/) - Due: December 11, 2023 Waterless Solutions for Decontamination – DTRA-JSTO is interested in furthering the manufacturing readiness level (MRL) of a waterless decontaminant developed under their research portfolio. The goal is to allow warfighters to continue their mission for an extended period without the burden of respiratory or ocular protection in a high threat, CBRN
- [MOSA Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/11/16/due-2024-01-mosa-innovation-challenge/) - Due: January 26, 2024 Twenty-first century air mobility requires 21st century technology. Submit to the Challenge and pitch your next-generation communications, computing, and operations technology to an expert review panel of military, industry, and investment leadership. The winner will receive a crystal award and recognition as top innovator in the MOSA Innovation Challenge! TechConnect, in
- [Protection and Integrated Reduction of Emcumbrances Hood/ Mask Interface](https://nta.org/2023/12/05/2023-12-protection-and-integrated-reduction-of-emcumbrances-hood-mask-interface/) - Due: January 12, 2024 Advanced System for Protection and Integrated Reduction of Encumbrances (ASPIRE) Hood-Mask Interface (HMI) program will incorporate upgrades into the current ground masks to optimize the interface between the Uniform Integrated Protective Ensemble Family of Systems General Purpose (UIPE FoS GP) and M50 series masks. The program will initiate optimization of the
- [Interoperable Networking for Training, Readiness, and Education in Medicine (INTREMED)](https://nta.org/2023/12/12/due-2023-12-interoperable-networking-for-training-readiness-and-education-in-medicine-intremed/) - DUE: December 22, 2023 Interoperable Networking for Training, Readiness, and Education in Medicine (INTREMED) This opportunity requires membership in the TREX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the
- [Known Distance Automated Scoring](https://nta.org/2023/12/15/due-2024-01-known-distance-automated-scoring/) - DUE: January 19, 2024 SON# RED-002; Known Distance Automated Scoring (KDAS) This opportunity requires membership in the TREX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete
- [Partnerships for Innovation](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-partnerships-for-innovation/) - DUE: January 2, 2024 The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Translational Impacts (TI) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.
- [Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Grant Program](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-cancer-prevention-and-control-clinical-trials-grant-program/) - DUE: January 7, 2024 Through this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) invites applications for support of investigator-initiated clinical trials that have the potential to reduce the burden of cancer through improvements in early detection, screening, prevention and interception, healthcare delivery, quality of life, and/or survivorship related to cancer; with such attributes,
- [Discovery of Cell-based Chemical Probes for Novel Brain Targets](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-discovery-of-cell-based-chemical-probes-for-novel-brain-targets/) - DUE: January 7, 2024 Through this FOA, NIH wishes to stimulate research in: 1) discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in understanding biological processes relevant to the missions of NIMH, NIA, NICHD, and/or NIDCD; and 2) discovery and/or validation of novel, biological targets that will inform studies of brain disease
- [Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-discovery-of-in-vivo-chemical-probes-for-the-nervous-system/) - DUE: January 7, 2024 Through this FOA, NIH wishes to stimulate research in 1) discovery and development of novel, small molecules for their potential use in understanding biological processes relevant to the missions of NIMH, NEI, NIAAA, NIDA, NIA and/or NIDCD and 2) discovery and/or validation of novel, biological targets that will inform studies of
- [National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-national-cancer-institutes-investigator-initiated-early-phase-clinical-trials-for-cancer-treatment-and-diagnosis/) - DUE: January 7 ,2024 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to seek research projects that implement early phase (Phase 0, I, and II) investigator-initiated clinical trials focused on cancer-targeted diagnostic and therapeutic interventions of direct relevance to the research mission of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
- [The State Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-the-state-component-of-the-national-cooperative-geologic-mapping-program/) - DUE: January 9, 2024 The primary objective of the STATEMAP component of the NCGMP is to establish the geologic framework of areas determined to be vital to the economic, social, or scientific welfare of individual States and the Nation. Closed
- [Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-solar-thermal-fuels-and-thermal-energy-storage-via-concentrated-solar-thermal-energy/) - DUE: January 12, 2024 This FOA will implement two approaches to energy storage in concentrated solar-thermal (CST) systems: thermochemical storage via solar fuel production and local thermal energy storage (TES) for dispatchable energy. The two technologies will support the government-wide approach to the climate crisis by driving the innovation that can lead to the deployment
- [xTechPrime Finalist Open Topic Competition](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-xtechprime-finalist-open-topic-competition/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 xTechPrime is seeking novel, disruptive concepts and technology solutions with dual-use capabilities that can assist in tackling the Army’s current needs and apply to current Army concepts. CLOSED
- [Remote Breaching of Obstacles](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-remote-breaching-of-obstacles/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate solutions or components of solutions for remote breaching of obstacles to decrease risk by removing Soldiers from the point of breach. CLOSED
- [Decontamination of Open Wounds](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-decontamination-of-open-wounds/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 The aim of this project is the development of an effective man-portable capability that will rapidly remove chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and other toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) from both intact and wounded human skin, under austere conditions. CLOSED
- [Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE)](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-comprehensive-partnerships-to-advance-cancer-health-equity-cpache/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 This funding opportunity seeks to support the Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) Program. The CPACHE Program develops and maintains comprehensive, long-term, and mutually beneficial partnerships between institutions serving underserved health disparity populations and underrepresented students (ISUPSs) and NCI-designated Cancer Centers (CCs). The institutions in each partnership are expected
- [Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-reducing-embodied-greenhouse-gas-emissions-for-construction-materials-and-products/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 The Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products grant program will advance the goals of EPA’s Environmental Product Declarations Assistance Program as follows: Increase the robustness of greenhouse gas emissions data associated with the production, use, and disposal of construction materials and products; Assist businesses in disclosing and
- [Arctic Research Opportunities](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-arctic-research-opportunities/) - DUE: January 16, 2024 The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region. The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process,
- [Saving Lives with Connectivity: Accelerating Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Deployment](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-saving-lives-with-connectivity-accelerating-vehicle-to-everything-v2x-deployment/) - DUE: January 17, 2024 Federal funding for eligible entities to deploy, operate, document, and showcase integrated, advanced roadway deployments featuring applications enabled by interoperable wireless connectivity (among vehicles, mobile devices, and smart infrastructure) that substantially and quantitatively improve system safety, enhance traveler mobility, improve efficiency of goods movement, mitigate environmental impacts, and address disparities in
- [Maternal and Child Health – Improving Oral Health Integration Demonstration Projects (MCH-IOHI Projects)](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-maternal-and-child-health-improving-oral-health-integration-demonstration-projects-mch-iohi-projects/) - DUE: January 22, 2024 MCH-IOHI Projects will aim to improve access to integrated preventive oral health care (integrated POHC) in primary care services accessible to MCH populations at increased or higher risk for poor oral health. Funding will support an MCH-IOHI Alliance (Alliance), to include key state stakeholders such as policy, practice, and public health
- [Biomedical Research Facilities](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-biomedical-research-facilities/) - DUE: January 25, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications from eligible academic and research institutions to apply for funding to modernize existing or construct new biomedical research facilities. Applications will be accepted from public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education as well as from non-profit research organizations. The goal of this
- [Development of Candidate Radiation/Nuclear Medical Countermeasures (MCMs)](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-development-of-candidate-radiation-nuclear-medical-countermeasures-mcms/) - Due: January 26, 2024 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support investigator-initiated research at all stages of development that is specifically focused on the development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to mitigate/treat injuries arising from radiation exposure during a public health emergency. This funding opportunity will support the development of novel
- [Development and validation of wearable device derived objective biosignatures or functional assessments](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-development-and-validation-of-wearable-device-derived-objective-biosignatures-or-functional-assessments/) - DUE: January 30, 2024 To enable the development and validation of real-world remote digital endpoints from wearable devices for monitoring pain experience and progression, response to interventions, and impact on quality of life. In the context of this RFA, endpoints will include biosignatures derived from functional and physiological assessments detected from wearable devices. These biosignatures
- [Chemical Security Program](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-chemical-security-program/) - DUE: January 31, 2024 CTR’s Chemical Security Program (CSP) supports efforts to prevent, detect, and counter the development, maintenance, proliferation, and use of chemical weapons (CW) by state and non-state actors worldwide. CSP achieves this mission through capacity-building programs, open source research, and other specialized efforts, all of which help foreign government and private sector
- [Cognitive Neuroscience](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-cognitive-neuroscience/) - DUE: February 1, 2024 The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) Program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Closed
- [Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-cybersecurity-innovation-for-cyberinfrastructure/) - DUE: February 1, 2024 The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to advance scientific discovery and innovation by enhancing the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. CICI supports efforts to develop, deploy and integrate cybersecurity that will benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, computation, collaborations workflows, and infrastructure. Closed
- [Perception, Action & Cognition](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-perception-action-cognition/) - DUE: February 1, 2024 The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational
- [Climate Program Office (CPO), Climate Adaptation Partnerships Program](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-climate-program-office-cpo-climate-adaptation-partnerships-program/) - Due: February 5, 2024 The Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) program in the Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) division of the Climate Program Office is an applied research and engagement program that expands society’s regional capacity to adapt to climate impacts in the United States. The CAP program supports sustained, collaborative relationships that help communities build
- [Frontier Research in Earth Sciences](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-frontier-research-in-earth-sciences/) - DUE: February 7, 2024 The FRES program will support research in Earth systems from the core through the critical zone. The project may focus on all or part of the surface, continental lithospheric, and deeper Earth systems over the entire range of temporal and spatial scales. Closed
- [Applying Imaging Pipelines for Spatial Characterization of Cellular Interactions](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-applying-imaging-pipelines-for-spatial-characterization-of-cellular-interactionsdue-2024-02/) - DUE: February 8, 2024 The goal of this NOFO is to support the development and application of innovative ex-vivo imaging methods, along with necessary tissue procurement, processing and computation pipelines, to enable the spatial analysis and molecular annotation of intercellular interactions in CNS HIV infection, persistence, and associated neuropathology. Closed
- [Accelerating Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems Program](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-accelerating-advanced-digital-construction-management-systems-program/) - DUE: February 12, 2024 The Accelerating Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS) Program. The statutory goal for the FTA ADCMS Program (49 U.S.C. § 5312(b)(4)) is to: “promote, implement, deploy, demonstrate, showcase, support, and document” advanced digital construction management systems. One of the US Department of Transportation’s major initiatives is to increase infrastructure project excellence.
- [Algorithms for Modern Power Systems](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-algorithms-for-modern-power-systems/) - DUE: February 12, 2024 The Algorithms for Modern Power Systems (AMPS) program will support research projects to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for improvement of the security, reliability, and efficiency of the modern power grid. Closed
- [Atmospheric System Research (ASR)](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-atmospheric-system-research-asr/) - DUE: February 13, 2023 The goal of ASR is to quantify the interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and radiation to improve understanding of key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiation processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. For the most part,
- [Advance Precision Medicine for AD/ADRD Treatment and Prevention](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-advance-precision-medicine-for-ad-adrd-treatment-and-prevention/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites U54 Cooperative Agreement applications aiming to establish multi-component Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias Translational Centers for Microphysiological Systems (MPS) (AD/ADRD MPS Translational Centers). The overarching purpose of this Centers program is to develop 2D and 3D models of AD/ADRD as reproducible and scalable platforms
- [Early Stage Testing of Pharmacologic or Device-based Interventions for Mental Disorders](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-early-stage-testing-of-pharmacologic-or-device-based-interventions-for-mental-disorders/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 NIMH requires an experimental therapeutics approach for the development and testing of therapeutic interventions, in which studies both evaluate the clinical effect of an intervention and generate information about the mechanisms underlying a disorder or an intervention response. As part of NIMHs Clinical Trial Pipeline, this FOA encourages early stage testing
- [Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Treatment, Preventive, and Services Interventions](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-clinical-trials-to-test-the-effectiveness-of-treatment-preventive-and-services-interventions/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 \This FOA is a key element of NIMHs set of FOAs to support clinical trials research across the intervention development and testing pipeline. The FOA supports (1) clinical trials to test the effectiveness of optimized therapeutic and preventive interventions for use in community and practice settings; and (2) clinical trials to
- [Physical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-physical-oceanography/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the
- [Chemical Oceanography](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-01-chemical-oceanography/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and
- [Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-ocean-technology-and-interdisciplinary-coordination/) - DUE: February 15, 2024 The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community. Closed
- [National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-national-artificial-intelligence-ai-research-institutes/) - DUE: February 16, 2024 The 2023 update to theNational Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan,informed by visioning activities in the scientific community as well as interaction with the public, identifies as its first strategic objective the need to make long-term investments in AI research in areas with the potential for long-term payoffs in AI.
- [Efficacy and Safety of Amyloid-Beta Directed Antibody Therapy](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-efficacy-and-safety-of-amyloid-beta-directed-antibody-therapy/) - DUE: February 20, 2024 This RFA will solicit applications for a pivotal phase 3 clinical trial to determine the efficacy of FDA approved monoclonal antibody therapy compared to placebo in diverse "mixed dementia" populations with a focus on vascular contributions. Mixed dementia refers to dementia cases positive for 1) Alzheimer biomarkers, such as amyloid positron
- [IND-enabling Studies for Platform Clinical Trials of Genome Editing in Multiple Diseases](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-ind-enabling-studies-for-platform-clinical-trials-of-genome-editing-in-multiple-diseases/) - DUE: February 22, 2024 The purpose of this NOFO is to provide support for applications for IND-enabling studies for the development of a novel in vivo genome editing therapeutic platform (genome editor plus delivery system) for two or more disease indications, using the same genome editor, route of administration, and delivery system. Closed
- [Sea Grant Fellowship in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-sea-grant-fellowship-in-population-and-ecosystem-dynamics-and-marine-resource-economics/) - DUE: February 22, 2024 The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. When an interested student is applying, be sure to specify your project’s focus area in
- [Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed Project](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-coastal-and-ocean-modeling-testbed-project/) - DUE: February 26, 2024 The overarching purpose of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is to address regional and national needs for ocean information, to gather reliable data on key coastal, ocean, and Great Lakes variables, and to ensure timely and sustained dissemination and availability of these data. U.S. IOOS is designed to address
- [Psychedelics Treatment Research in Substance Use Disorder](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-psychedelics-treatment-research-in-substance-use-disorder/) - DUE: February 28, 2024 This Concept supports clinical studies applications to study psychedelic treatment administration paradigms, assess the role of psychotherapy in its administration, and describe and assess the range of clinical outcomes, including downstream functional effects, that are evidenced as the result of this treatment Closed
- [Environmental System Science (ESS)](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-environmental-system-science-ess/) - DUE: February 29, 2024 The BER ESS program goal is to advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes. Closed
- [Distributed Energy Systems Demonstrations Funding Opportunity Announcement](https://nta.org/2023/12/19/due-2024-02-distributed-energy-systems-demonstrations-funding-opportunity-announcement/) - Due: February 29, 2024 The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is issuing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support a portfolio of projects that demonstrate and validate reliable operations and financial value from a range of grid topologies with diverse energy resources and distributed energy systems (DES) ownership models. Closed
- [Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Product Design](https://nta.org/2024/01/09/due-2024-01-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-for-product-design/) - Due: February 6, 2024 Dart Container aims to leverage emerging generative AI technologies by utilizing software platforms able to optimize existing products or create new container designs. The identified platforms will enhance the capabilities of Dart Container's internal design team. Modern software engineers have designed platforms that utilize natural language prompts to create life-like text,
- [Virtual Reality Tactical Assault Kit](https://nta.org/2024/01/09/due-2024-01-virtual-reality-tactical-assault-kit/) - Due: January 29, 2024 To develop a software prototype to support CBRN mission readiness by existing virtual reality (VR) capabilities to provide the Joint Force with a realistic, immersive experience to prepare for and respond to CB threats and experience simulated adverse physical effects (e.g., nausea) in a safe environment. The desired prototype will demonstrate
- [Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Guam Defense System/FMS Integration](https://nta.org/2024/01/09/due-2024-01-integrated-air-missile-defense-iamd-battle-command-system-ibcs-guam-defense-system-fms-integration/) - Due: January 15, 2024 Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Guam Defense System/FMS Integration This opportunity requires membership in the AMTC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are
- [Technology Advancement and Applied Research Leveraging The ISS National Lab](https://nta.org/2024/01/10/due-2024-05-technology-advancement-and-applied-research-leveraging-the-iss-national-lab/) - Due: May 7, 2024 The purpose of this ISS National Lab Research Announcement (NLRA) is to solicit proposals focused on flight investigations within applied research and development, translational medicine, technology readiness level maturation, and technology demonstration to be performed on the space station. Flight projects selected via this research announcement may be awarded funding to enable mission
- [TechConnect World Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/01/11/due-2024-02-techconnect-world-innovation-challenge/) - Due: February 2, 2024 Launch your electrifying journey into the future of innovation! Join the world's largest multi-sector commercialization program for emerging deep technologies. Pitch your groundbreaking innovations and connect with top-tier corporate, investment, military and federal leaders for partnering, licensing and investment opportunities. Whether you're a startup, university TTO, federal lab, or federal awardee,
- [Smart Cities Startup Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/01/11/due-2024-03-smart-cities-startup-challenge/) - Due: March 1, 2024 Join the nation's largest city-focused startup pitch program, showcasing hundreds of cutting-edge innovations addressing top urban challenges. Don't miss this opportunity to pitch your solutions to leading city decision makers, investors, industry & military tech scouts, and government funding offices. In alignment with the U.S. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($550
- [U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Opportunities](https://nta.org/2024/01/17/due-2024-02-u-s-army-program-executive-office-for-simulation-training-and-instrumentation-opportunities/) - DUE: February 28, 2024 SON Title:RED-003: Tools & Methodologies to Enable Automation of Testing for Components of Cyber-Physical SystemsRED-004: Tools for Vulnerability Assessment of Cyber-Physical SystemsRED-005: Non-Internet Protocol (IP) Traffic GenerationRED-006: Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas (CRPA) Synthetic GPS EnvironmentRED-007: Pressure Sensitive Paint CameraRED-008: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to Underwater Sensor CommunicationsRED-009: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
- [Agile Medical Countermeasure Decision Support Tool (AMDST) Prototype](https://nta.org/2024/01/23/2024-02-agile-medical-countermeasure-decision-support-tool-amdst-prototype/) - Due: February 15, 2024 This RPP is focused on the development of a software prototype that will allow a medical planner to assess the residual operational risk for a mission after layering in threat risk, medical countermeasure (MCM) risk-benefit tradeoffs, and fielding risk during mission planning. The AMDST layering model is intended to include all
- [Mechanistic Studies on Social Behavior in Substance Use Disorder](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-08-mechanistic-studies-on-social-behavior-in-substance-use-disorder/) - Due: August 14, 2024 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications proposing innovative transdisciplinary research that integrates approaches across social/cognitive neuroscience and other social sciences and will lead to a testable conceptual or computational model that provides mechanistic insights into social behavior and its relationships with the onset, trajectory
- [Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-energy-frontier-research-centers-efrc/) - Due: May 8, 2024 The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program and encourages both new and renewal applications. Applications from multi-disciplinary teams will be required to propose discovery science and use-inspired basic research that addresses priority research directions and opportunities identified by
- [Process Innovations For Curing Of Molded Polymers](https://nta.org/2023/04/19/process-innovations-for-curing-of-molded-polymers/) - Due May 12, 2023 TechConnect's client, a global consumer goods company with billions in annual revenue, manufactures products made of organic compounds which are shaped in small molds, roughly 5-15 cm3in volume. The products are then cured in large drying chambers. The client is seeking process innovations which can deliver substantive reductions in drying time
- [Transport Phenomena Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-transport-phenomena-research-at-the-international-space-station-to-benefit-life-on-earth/) - Due: March 4, 2024 Solicitation for research projects in the general field of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and fire systems, thermal transport processes, and nanoscale interactions that can utilize the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to conduct research that will benefit life on Earth. Closed
- [Effectiveness Trials for Post-Acute Interventions and Services to Optimize Longer-term Outcomes](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-effectiveness-trials-for-post-acute-interventions-and-services-to-optimize-longer-term-outcomes/) - Due: March 5, 2024 NIMH seeks applications for research projects to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic and service delivery interventions for the post-acute management of mental health conditions affecting youth, adults, and older adults. This FOA encourages clinical trials to establish the effectiveness and test hypotheses regarding moderators, mediators, and mechanisms of action of post-acute
- [Climate Resilience Centers](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-3-climate-resilience-centers/) - Due: March 7, 2024 Understanding fine-scale, local and community impacts of climate change across this nation is a critical gap in climate research and analysis today. Further, climate change is known to disproportionately impact people in disadvantaged communities due to increased exposure and vulnerability. BER seeks to establish CRCs at HBCUs, non-R1 MSIs, and emerging
- [Long-Term Ecological Research](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-long-term-ecological-research/) - Due: March 7, 2024 To address ecological questions that cannot be resolved with short-term observations or experiments, NSF established the Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER) in 1980. Two components differentiate LTER research from projects supported by other NSF programs: 1) the research is located at specific sites chosen to represent major ecosystem types or natural
- [Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-expanding-ai-innovation-through-capacity-building-and-partnerships/) - Due: March 11, 2024 The National Science Foundation and its partners support the continued growth of a broad and diverse interdisciplinary research community for the advancement of AI and AI-powered innovation, providing a unique opportunity to broadly promote the NSF vision and core values, especially inclusion and collaboration. TheExpanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and
- [Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems for ART Optimization in Children Living with HIV-1](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-long-acting-drug-delivery-systems-for-art-optimization-in-children-living-with-hiv-1/) - Due: March 11, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to accelerate the development of safe and effective long-acting drug delivery systems for improved, simplified treatment of HIV-1 in children. Closed
- [Multidisciplinary Research to Accelerate Hepatitis B Cure in Persons Living with HIV and HBV](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-multidisciplinary-research-to-accelerate-hepatitis-b-cure-in-persons-living-with-hiv-and-hbv/) - Due: March 13, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support research to better understand the impact of host and viral heterogeneity on pathogenesis of disease, viral persistence and immunopathology of Hepatitis B (HBV) and inform cure strategies for HBV in people living with HIV (PLWH). Applicants will establish multidisciplinary
- [Tools for decentralized clinical trials for substance use disorder](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-tools-for-decentralized-clinical-trials-for-substance-use-disorder/) - Due: March 14, 2024 There are gaps that prevent the utilization of decentralized clinical trials (DCT) in substance use area. The existing sensors for physiological measurement are rarely used and may need further validation. There are no wearable or home-use detection devices on the market capable to measure substances of interest (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine, their
- [Data Harmonization, Curation and Secondary Analysis of Existing Clinical Datasets](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-data-harmonization-curation-and-secondary-analysis-of-existing-clinical-datasets/) - Due: March 14, 2024 This FOA invites applications from multidisciplinary teams to perform secondary data analysis, using existing datasets from two or more multi-site clinical research projects, to address scientific and clinical hypotheses relevant to neurological disorders and conditions within the NINDS mission. In this phased funding mechanism, applications are required to systematically and comprehensively
- [NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station (ISS) to Benefit Life on Earth](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-nsf-casis-collaboration-on-tissue-engineering-and-mechanobiology-on-the-international-space-station-iss-to-benefit-life-on-earth/) - Due: March 15, 2024 The Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering and Environmental Transport (CBET) and Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Infrastructure (CMMI) in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) are partnering with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) to solicit research projects in the general fields of tissue engineering
- [Marine Debris Interception Technologies](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-marine-debris-interception-technologies/) - Due: March 15, 2024 The overall objective of this funding opportunity is to support the installation, monitoring, and maintenance of proven marine debris interception technologies that will capture marine debris at or close to known marine debris sources or pathways and which benefit marine and coastal NOAA trust resources, coastal communities, and/or local economies. Closed
- [Human Islet Research Network - Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Diabetes (HIRN-CMAD)](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-human-islet-research-network-consortium-on-modeling-autoimmune-diabetes-hirn-cmad/) - Due: March 20, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) welcomes applications for the Consortium on Modeling Autoimmune Diabetes (CMAD) that supports the development of in vitro and in vivo models of type 1 diabetes (T1D) to enable studies of human T1D pathophysiology and to serve as platforms for preclinical assessments of new T1D interventions.
- [Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-bycatch-reduction-engineering-program/) - Due: March 20, 2024 The mission of the National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) is to support the development of technological solutions and changes in fishing practices designed to minimize bycatch of fish and protected species (including Endangered Species Act-listed fish, marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles) and to reduce impacts to invertebrates (including sponges,
- [Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRPE) Elements](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-green-and-resilient-retrofit-program-grrpe-elements/) - Due: March 28, 2024 The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) is authorized and funded by Section 30002 of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, (Public Law 117-169) (the “IRA”), titled “Improving Energy Efficiency or Water Efficiency or Climate Resilience of Affordable Housing.” The program seeks to amplify recent technological advancements in utility efficiency and
- [ROSES 2023: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-roses-2023-research-opportunities-in-space-and-earth-science/) - Due: March 29, 2024 ROSES is an omnibus NRA, with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied supporting research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD. Closed
- [Intrinsic Cognitive Security (ICS)](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-04-intrinsic-cognitive-security-ics/) - Due: April 12, 2024 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals inthe following areas of interest: computational science to build tactical mixed reality systems thatprotect human users against cognitive attack. Proposed research should investigate innovativeapproaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Closed
- [Geospatial Research Laboratory Commercial Solutions Opening](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-06-geospatial-research-laboratory-commercial-solutions-opening/) - Due: June 30, 2024 The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geospatial Research Laboratory announces a Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) which aims to find technology that pioneers geospatial solutions for the Warfighter. Closed
- [Engineering and Preclinical Development of Biological Products that Eliminate HIV-infected Cells](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-engineering-and-preclinical-development-of-biological-products-that-eliminate-hiv-infected-cells/) - Due: March 15, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support the late-stage engineering and preclinical development of innovative biological products that safely and specifically kill HIV-infected cells. Products of interest include but are not limited to broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs), their derivatives, and other soluble, antibody-like molecules. Closed
- [NeuroNEXT Clinical Trials](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-neuronext-clinical-trials/) - Due: March 5, 2024 This FOA encourages applications for exploratory clinical trials of investigational agents (drugs, biologics, surgical therapies or devices) that may contribute to the justification for and provide the data required for designing a future trial, for biomarker validation studies, or for proof of mechanism clinical studies. Diseases chosen for study should be
- [Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-modular-r01s-in-cancer-control-and-population-sciences/) - Due: March 7, 2024 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages applications for research in cancer control and population sciences. The overarching goal is to provide support to promote research efforts on novel scientific ideas that have the potential to substantially advance cancer research in statistical and analytic methods, epidemiology, cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviors and behavioral
- [NIDA Animal Genomics Program](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-nida-animal-genomics-program/) - Due: March 4, 2024 The purpose of the NIDA Animal Genetics Program is to identify genetic, genomic, and molecular (epi)genetic variants that underlie: 1. Phenotypes associated with addictive behaviors and/or vulnerability to distinct stages along the substance use disorder (SUD) trajectory (e.g. initial/acute use, escalation of use, acquisition of tolerance, dependence, uncontrolled use, abstinence and
- [Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-bidirectional-influences-between-adolescent-social-media-use-and-mental-health/) - Due: March 1, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focuses on understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use and adolescent mental health, psychiatric symptoms, and risk or resilience for psychopathology. Closed
- [ALL HAZARDS ENERGY RESILIENCE](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-all-hazards-energy-resilience/) - Due: March 4, 2024 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to advance tools and technologies specifically designed to reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from all hazards including cybersecurity, physical security, and climate effects. This effort will lead to next generation tools and technologies not available today that will become widely adopted
- [Collaborations to Enhance Drug Development and Regulatory Science - Clinical Trials Optional](https://nta.org/2024/01/29/due-2024-03-collaborations-to-enhance-drug-development-and-regulatory-science-clinical-trials-optional/) - Due: March 4, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) invites applications for a cooperative agreement to support, manage and facilitate Public-Private Partnerships and Collaborative activities as part of the Critical Path Initiative and to support regulatory science efforts. FDA and grantees will work together to develop innovative, collaborative projects in research, education, and outreach.
- [Innovations For Fat Reduction In Crackers](https://nta.org/2024/02/01/2024-02-innovations-for-fat-reduction-in-crackers/) - Due: February 29, 2024 Mondelez, the global food and snack company, is exploring ingredient and processing innovations to reduce total fat content in their cracker recipes. Mondelez is open to all relevant technologies with a viable pathway to commercialization. BACKGROUND To offer consumers low fat snack options & aligned with their mindful snacking strategy, Mondelez
- [Self Detoxifying Chemical/Biological Protective Fabric Optimization](https://nta.org/2024/02/05/2024-02-self-detoxifying-chemical-biological-protective-fabric-optimization/) - Due: February 13, 2024 Description: To employ unique self-detoxification capability into CB protective suits. Self-detoxifying prototypes will mitigate logistics costs associated with CBRN protective suits; the suits will render the threat inactive and thereby enabling reuse of the suit. Furthermore, self-detoxifying technologies will mitigate the need to repel liquid chemical agent –thus eliminating the need for
- [SOCOM SBIR 24.4 Release 3 Handheld Kinetic Defeat of Unmanned Aircraft Systems](https://nta.org/2024/02/05/2024-03-socom-sbir-24-4-release-3-handheld-kinetic-defeat-of-unmanned-aircraft-systems/) - Due: March 5, 2024 The USSOCOM Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is accepting submissions for the technology areas of interest below. Special Areas of Interest PHASE I Open Topics:SOCOM244-004: Handheld Kinetic Defeat of UAS. The objective of this topic is to develop a handheld defeat capability to defeat Unmanned/ Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). Low size,
- [Counter WMD Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/02/06/2024-03-counter-wmd-innovation-challenge/) - Due: March 28, 2024 Counter WMD Innovation Challenge and $50K Prize Enter your innovation for a chance to pitch and win funding from a $50,000 award at TechConnect World, furnished by Advanced Technology International (ATI) and the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. Up to 25 finalists will pitch on-stage before a panel of
- [Medical Threat Reduction Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/02/06/2024-03-medical-threat-reduction-challenge/) - Due: March 28, 2024 Medical Threat Reduction Challenge and $50K Prize Enter your innovation for a chance to pitch and win funding from a $50,000 award at TechConnect World, furnished by Advanced Technology International (ATI) and the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC). Up to 25 finalists will pitch on-stage before a panel of judges to
- [Simulation Ecosystem](https://nta.org/2024/02/14/2024-03-simulation-ecosystem/) - Due: March 8, 2024 RPP is focused on establishing an array of venues where medics, other caregivers and simulated patients agree to participate in tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) training while wearing suites of sensing technologies. This effort is aimed at providing a controlled venue to conduct these training events that is hyper realistic with
- [NSTIC: 24-Request for Prototype Projects Under the Advanced Computing and Software Systems Technology Area](https://nta.org/2024/02/19/2024-03-nstic-24-request-for-prototype-projects-under-the-advanced-computing-and-software-systems-technology-area/) - Due: March 20, 2024 The Naval Surface Technology & Innovation Consortium (NSTIC) engages industry and academia to develop and mature technologies in the field of surface technology innovation that enhance Navy mission effectiveness. NSTIC members have access to business and research opportunities focused on research, development, testing, and integrating complex naval warfare systems across a
- [Breakthrough Innovations For Treating Acid Mine Drainage](https://nta.org/2024/02/21/2024-03-breakthrough-innovations-for-treating-acid-mine-drainage/) - Due: March 21, 2024 ABSTRACT A global leader in metals extraction seeks to identify innovative and effective technologies for remediating highly acidic water runoff at mining sites. All approaches capable of generating water suitable for outcomes including reuse or discharge are of interest. BACKGROUND Acid mine drainage (AMD) occurs when metal sulfides, such as pyrite,
- [Innovative Application Technologies For Coating Fiber Products With Complex Geometries](https://nta.org/2024/02/21/2024-03-innovative-application-technologies-for-coating-fiber-products-with-complex-geometries2024-03/) - Due: March 21, 2024 ABSTRACT A global leader in the packaging industry wants to identify technologies suitable for applying barrier coatings to fiber-based products with complex geometries (2D/3D) at a high throughput and without damage to the thin substrate. All approaches, including ones originally developed for other applications or industries, are of interest. BACKGROUND Barrier
- [Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Request for Enhanced White Paper](https://nta.org/2024/02/23/2024-06-distributed-bioindustrial-manufacturing-request-for-enhanced-white-paper/) - Due: March 6, 2024 This prototype project is seeking innovative companies that will develop and demonstrate technical and business processes to produce pure, stable, high-quality biomanufactured product(s) in five areas: fabrication, firepower, fitness, food, and fuel. This opportunity requires membership in the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so
- [Seeking Expert Insights Into The Physiology And Chemistry Of Mouthfeel](https://nta.org/2024/02/29/2024-03-seeking-expert-insights-into-the-physiology-and-chemistry-of-mouthfeel/) - Due: March 28, 2024 ABSTRACT A large international brewing company wants to collaborate with Subject Matter Experts in physiology, chemistry, and materials science to understand the complex interactions that consumers experience as "mouthfeel". Potential engagement opportunities include consultation and contract research, among others. BACKGROUND The science of mouthfeel spans multiple disciplines and brings together chemistry,
- [ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-08-ecosystem-for-leading-innovation-in-plasma-science-and-engineering/) - Due: August 13, 2024 The primary goal of the ECosystem for LeadingInnovation inPlasmaScience andEngineering (ECLIPSE) program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for bringing fundamental plasma science investigations to bear on problems of societal and technological need within the scope of science and engineering supported by the participating NSF programs. The ECLIPSE meta-program has
- [Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-04-expanding-capacity-in-quantum-information-science-and-engineering/) - Due: April 1, 2024 The NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program aims to increase research capacity and broaden participation in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) and related disciplines through the creation of a diversified investment portfolio in research and education that will lead to scientific, engineering and technological breakthroughs,
- [Minority-Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Consortia Grant Program](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-06-minority-serving-institutions-partnership-program-msipp-consortia-grant-program-cgp/) - Due: June 15, 2024 This funding opportunity invites new or renewal grant applications from consortia partnerships consisting of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) with a focus on building and supporting the workforce capacity of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) by (1) expanding scientific and technical
- [Autism Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies (Autism FIRST)](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-04-autism-field-initiated-innovative-research-studies-autism-first/) - Due: April 3, 2024 This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the FY 2024 Autism Field-Initiated Innovative Research Studies (Autism FIRST) program. The purpose of the Autism FIRST program is to support empirical research that advances the evidence on early screening and interventions to improve the health and well-being of children, adolescents,
- [Basket Clinical Trials of Drugs Targeting Shared Molecular Etiologies in Multiple Rare Diseases](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-03-basket-clinical-trials-of-drugs-targeting-shared-molecular-etiologies-in-multiple-rare-diseases/) - Due: March 16, 2024 The purpose of this NOFO is to provide support for basket clinical trials of drugs targeting shared molecular etiologies in more than one rare disease, and in the process to identify and overcome challenges in adapting the oncology basket trial model to rare diseases. Closed
- [Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-03-cooperative-agreement-for-cesu-affiliated-partner-with-rocky-mountain-cooperative-ecosystem-studies-unit/) - Due: March 15, 2024 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) is offering a funding opportunity to build collaborative research relationships to better understand how stream ecosystems are influenced by climate-driven drought. The collaborative opportunity will advance the ability to provide data in ecological drought science and provide opportunities for students to
- [W911NF-23-S-0001 SPECIAL NOTICE - Distributed Analytics in Tactical Networks](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-03-w911nf-23-s-0001-special-notice-distributed-analytics-in-tactical-networks/) - Due: March 20, 2024 The aim of this Special Notice under the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) (W911NF-23-S-0001) is to solicit proposals related to the ARL BAA Topic, “Networking Structure, Dynamics, and Protocols”. The future battlefield will be increasingly complex (dynamics, scale, heterogeneity, peer adversaries) and resource constrained (bandwidth, storage, memory,
- [Technical Support for Species-at-Risk Surveys and Analyses in Support of Army Environmental Conservation](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-08-technical-support-for-species-at-risk-surveys-and-analyses-in-support-of-army-environmental-conservation/) - Due: April 8, 2024 The government seeks research and technical support for planning level surveys and analyses of freshwater mussel and herpetofaunal species occurrence, distribution and relative abundance. Surveys will take place at Fort Johnson, Louisiana and Fort Cavazos, Texas. It is anticipated that results from these analyses will be relevant for improved conservation and
- [U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), Research and Development Grant, Fiscal (FY) 2024](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/02024-04-u-s-nuclear-regulatory-commission-notice-of-funding-opportunity-nofo-research-and-development-grant-fiscal-fy-2024/) - Due: April 1, 2024 USNRC funding opportunity for technologies applicable to nuclear energy including, but not limited to: communication, digital instrumentation, modeling, safety, analysis, and more. Apply
- [Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-epidemiologic-and-economic-modeling-for-hiv-viral-hepatitis-std-and-tb/) - Due: April 8, 2024 This notice of funding opportunity announcement will support modeling of disease dynamics and advanced data analytics to inform and improve HIV, viral hepatitis, STD, TB, and adolescent health interventions and programs. Epidemiologic and economic models have long been a part of NCHHSTP’s emphasis on data use for program improvement. The cooperative
- [Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-research-and-development-in-forensic-science-for-criminal-justice-purposes/) - Due: April 11, 2024 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for funding. OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and
- [Flexible and Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT)](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-flexible-and-innovative-transformer-technologies-fitt/) - Due: April 12, 2024 Flexible and Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT). The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate innovative designs, prototypes, and field demonstration exercises of advanced distribution and/or power transformers (e.g., flexible, modular, scalable, hybrid, and solid-state transformers) that can be readily utilized across a range of distribution to transmission scale
- [Seeking: Data Acquisition and Processing System](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/request-for-solutions-rfs-for-trexii-23-08/) - Due: October 16, 2023 Data Acquisition and processing System (DAS) to support the Navy’s future Low-Level Continuous Wave Illumination (LLCWI) ship demonstration This opportunity requires membership in the TREXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the
- [AMTC-23-05](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/amtc-23-05/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Multiple requirements under the AMTC technology areas of Guides Missile, Aviation, and Manufacturing & Enabling/Disruptive Technologies. This opportunity requires membership in the AMTC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so
- [CWMD-RPP-23-06 – CWMD2306](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/cwmd-rpp-23-06-cwmd2306/) - Due: August 18, 2023 This requirement is to develop a replacement compressor to be integrated into M8 CBPS Environmental Control Unit (ECU) as a replacement, subject to the form, fit and function testing, to the current compressor (Bock, FKX3 A). This opportunity requires membership in the CWMD Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year,
- [Clean Power for Hours Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/clean-power-for-hours-challenge/) - DUE: August 8, 2023 Seeking emergency on-site power supply technologies during outages. CLOSED
- [Dynamic Enhanced Environment Perception – Building Information Models](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/dynamic-enhanced-environment-perception-building-information-models/) - DUE: August 8, 2023 Seeking the ability to rapidly generate building information models on-demand and in real time. CLOSED
- [Autonomous Systems at Scale](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/autonomous-systems-at-scale/) - DUE: August 10, 2023 Open call for autonomous systems to improve warfighter safety or reduce workload. CLOSED
- [Solar Data Bounty Prize](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/solar-data-bounty-prize/) - DUE: August 14, 2023 Incentivizing data sharing from solar energy farms of varying sizes to improve operational performance overall. CLOSED
- [Canopies for High-speed Ultra-Long Terrain Execution (CHUTE)](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/canopies-for-high-speed-ultra-long-terrain-execution-chute/) - DUE: August 17, 2023 Seeking low weight ram-air parachute concepts for low altitude, long distance flights. CLOSED
- [Adaptable Interface - Innovation Challenge at Dahlgren](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/adaptable-interface-innovation-challenge-at-dahlgren/) - DUE: August 18, 2023 Seeking adaptable interfaces for shipboard combat systems. CLOSED
- [NATO Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/nato-innovation-challenge/) - DUE: October 5, 2023 Call for innovations from NATO countries focused on planning military transportation. CLOSED
- [Multilateral Autonomy](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/multilateral-autonomy/) - DUE: October 31, 2023 Seeking advancements in the functioning of autonomous systems for improved decision making. CLOSED
- [Innovations in Nuclear Security & Surety](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/innovations-in-nuclear-security-surety/) - DUE: October 30, 2023 Seeking hardware and software to promote the security and surety of nuclear weapons through improved monitoring, reporting, integration and communication. CLOSED
- [NATO DIANA Pilot Challenges](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/nato-diana-pilot-challenges/) - DUE: August 25, 2023 Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA): Seeking innovations in energy resilience, secure information sharing, and sensing and surveillance. CLOSED
- [Modernizing Secure Facility Design, Construction, and Accreditation](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/modernizing-secure-facility-design-construction-and-accreditation/) - DUE: August 24, 2023 Funding opportunity for utilizing automation to assist with the development, construction and validation of facilities for secure data review. CLOSED
- [Additive Components Enhanced for Extreme Environments (ACE3)](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/additive-components-enhanced-for-extreme-environments-ace3/) - DUE: August 24, 2023 Seeking innovative post-processing technologies to speed deployment of 3D-printed components used in turbine systems. CLOSED
- [Broad Agency Announcement: Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/broad-agency-announcement-marine-corps-warfighting-laboratory/) - DUE: September 30, 2023 Call for technical papers on a broad array of technology domains relevant to the Marines: logistics, cybersecurity, security, transportation, communication, kinetics. CLOSED
- [Knowledge-Level Distributed Data Platforms for Ops-Log Synchronization](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/knowledge-level-distributed-data-platforms-for-ops-log-synchronization/) - DUE: September 5, 2023 Seeking improved tactical and situational awareness utilizing AI/ML platforms to enhance warfighter effectiveness. CLOSED
- [Open Topic for Logistics in a Contested Environment](https://nta.org/2023/08/09/open-topic-for-logistics-in-a-contested-environment/) - DUE: August 15, 2023 Seeking hardware and software to enhance the logistical operations of the Navy in contested environments. CLOSED
- [AMTC-23-06](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/amtc-23-06/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Multiple requirements under the AMTC technology areas of Guides Missile, Aviation, and Manufacturing & Enabling/Disruptive Technologies. This opportunity requires membership in the AMTC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so
- [USDA: National Institute for Food and Agriculture SBIR/STTR Request for Applications](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/0224-03-usda-national-institute-for-food-and-agriculture-sbir-sttr-request-for-applications/) - Due: March 26, 2024 The USDA is making SBIR/STTR funds available for FY2024 across a broad array of uses cases including forestry, conversation, aquaculture, biofuels, and plant production. Closed
- [Advanced Materials and Manufacturing on the International Space Station](https://nta.org/2024/03/07/2024-07-advanced-materials-and-manufacturing-on-the-international-space-station/) - Due: July 8, 2024 The ISS National Lab Research Announcement (NLRA) for In-Space Production Applications: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing is now open. This solicitation focuses on leveraging the unique space environment to develop, test, or mature new products or processes to produce near-term, positive economic impact. Closed
- [Experiment Coordination of Human-Machine Teaming (EXCOR-HMT)](https://nta.org/2024/03/05/2024-04-experiment-coordination-of-human-machine-teaming-excor-hmt/) - Due: April 1, 2024 The purpose of this RFS is to solicit innovative proposals to accelerate the advancement and integration of autonomous and AI systems into the hands of the warfighters. Human systems integration is the design, development, and sustainment practices that ensure warfighters can efficiently, effectively, and safely leverage technologies to accomplish tasks. Human-Machine
- [Chemical Probes and Drugs for Modulating HIV Transcription in the Context of Substance Use Disorders](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-08-chemical-probes-and-drugs-for-modulating-hiv-transcription-in-the-context-of-substance-use-disorders/) - Due: August 13, 2024 The goal of this initiative is to support research aimed at (1) identification of targets and pathways by which transcriptional activity of HIV can be suppressed in HIV reservoirs including the CNS in people with SUD, and (2) application of emerging small molecule drug discovery approaches to identify novel compounds that
- [High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Platform for Discovery of Medications to Treat Alcohol Use Disorder](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-04-high-throughput-screening-hts-platform-for-discovery-of-medications-to-treat-alcohol-use-disorder/) - Due: April 9, 2024 This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) applications from small business concerns (SBCs) in the development of a new, or optimization of an existing, in vivo and/or in vitro high-throughput screening (HTS) platform for use in identifying potential compounds for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). Closed
- [Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2014-04-rehabilitation-engineering-research-centers-rerc-program/) - Due: April 15, 2024 The purpose of the RERC program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by conducting advanced engineering research on and development of innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or to remove environmental barriers. RERCs also demonstrate and evaluate such technologies, facilitate service
- [South Carolina Watershed Assessment Services](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-south-carolina-watershed-assessment-services/) - Due: April 15, 2024 Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency under the USDA, in the South Carolina State Office, is seeking proposals from partners to develop watershed assessment plans to support the National Water Quality Initiative through the Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA) Program. Proposals are requested for competitive consideration for cooperative agreement awards from eligible
- [Carbon Negative Shot Pilots](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-carbon-negative-shot-pilots/) - Due: April 16, 2024 Carbon Negative Shot Pilots This Funding Opportunity Announcement aims to expand the current Department of Energy portfolio of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies (examples - biomass carbon removal and storage, enhanced mineralization, ocean based CDR, Direct Air Capture [DAC], etc.) to advance technologies that will ultimately achieve the Carbon Negative Shot
- [BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE)](https://nta.org/2024/03/08/2024-04-biological-undersea-energy-blue/) - Due: April 30, 2024 The BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE) program seeks to develop power supplies that capture and convert microscopic forms of marine biomass (e.g., dissolved organic matter (DOM), phytoplankton, zooplankton) and other substances (e.g., microplastics, nutrients) into electrical power. These power supplies are intended for onboard use by ocean-deployed sensor systems presently powered by
- [Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) Reactivator Development and Approval Pipeline (ARDAP) Prototype](https://nta.org/2024/03/19/2024-03-acetylcholinesterase-ache-reactivator-development-and-approval-pipeline-ardap-prototype/) - Due: March 27, 2024 Enhanced White Paper for FDA approval of an improved oxime in a vial to increase warfighter survivability. This opportunity requires membership in the MCDC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium,
- [Integrated Biological and Computational Low-Dose Radiation Research](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-04-integrated-biological-and-computational-low-dose-radiation-research/) - Due: April 2, 2024 DOE SC program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) hereby announces its interest in development of integrated biological and computational research to gain a mechanistic understanding of the effects of low dose radiation exposure on cellular functions. The long-term goal is to build on the understanding of radiation effects on cellular
- [Enabling Access to the Semiconductor Chip Ecosystem for Design, Fabrication, and Training](https://nta.org/2024/03/04/2024-04-enabling-access-to-the-semiconductor-chip-ecosystem-for-design-fabrication-and-training/) - Due: April 4, 2024 The aim of this solicitation is (i) to dramatically lower the barriers to accessing state-of-the-art electronic design automation (EDA) tools,process design kits (PDKs), and design intellectual property (IP) cores for students and academic researchers, and (ii) to enable students at various levels to design IC chips. A key goal is to
- [FY24 NOAA SBIR Phase II](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-fy24-noaa-sbir-phase-ii/) - Due: April 24, 2024 The Department of Commerce (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) invites small businesses to submit research proposals under this NOFO. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is not a substitute for existing unsolicited proposal mechanisms. Unsolicited proposals are not accepted under the SBIR program. Only FY 2023 NOAA SBIR
- [Campus Cyberinfrastructure](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-campus-cyberinfrastructure/) - Due: April 24, 2024 The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Projects that help overcome disparities in cyber-connectivity associated with geographiclocation,and thereby advance the geography of innovation and enable populations based in these locales to become more nationally competitive in
- [State Biomonitoring Programs: Assessing disproportionate exposure to environmental chemicals among communities](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-state-biomonitoring-programs-assessing-disproportionate-exposure-to-environmental-chemicals-among-communities/) - Due: April 15, 2024 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity is to leverage existing capability and capacity of state public health laboratories to conduct high-quality biomonitoring science and assess human exposure to environmental chemicals within their jurisdictions, specifically focusing on investigations for populations disproportionately affected by exposure to harmful chemicals. Improved exposure assessment
- [AFWERX Super Goggle Digital Design Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-afwerx-super-goggle-digital-design-challenge/) - Due: April 26, 2024 The USAF aims to leverage recent technological advancements in the mixed reality ecosystem. The current state of pilot training is limited by closed systems and outdated technology, driving a need to revolutionize advanced synthetic flight training by replicating "outside the cockpit" visual environments with unprecedented fidelity and capability. This bespoke and
- [AMTC 24-03 Request for Enhanced Whitepapers-Multiple Topics](https://nta.org/2024/04/10/2024-04-amtc-24-03-request-for-enhanced-whitepapers-multiple-topics/) - Due: April 24, 2024 AMTC-24-03 Request for Enhanced Whitepapers-Multiple Topics. This opportunity requires membership in the AMTC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the form
- [Research on General Plasma Science Collaborative Research Facilities](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-research-on-general-plasma-science-collaborative-research-facilities/) - Due: April 29, 2024 The DOE SC program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in receiving new applications from U.S. researchers to carry out frontier-level plasma science research on one or more of the FES General Plasma Science (GPS) Program supported collaborative research facilities (CRFs). These include the Big Red Ball (BRB)
- [Carbon Management](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-carbon-management/) - April 29, 2024 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) aims to expand the Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s (DOE FECM’s) carbon management portfolio through support for research and development (R&D) projects in the programmatic areas of Carbon Conversion and Point Source Carbon Capture. Closed
- [Data Access Alternatives: Artificial Intelligence Supported Interfaces](https://nta.org/2024/04/05/data-access-alternatives-artificial-intelligence-supported-interfaces/) - Due: May 17, 2024 The key objective of this effort is to create and test machine-learning-backed or “artificial intelligence” (AI)-backed user experiences with federal statistical data. This experience shall improve on the current state of user interactions based on obtaining answers to questions via search engines or emailing federal staff or contractors. This project seeks
- [Use Cases to Inform a Future National Secure Data Service](https://nta.org/2024/04/05/use-cases-to-inform-a-future-national-secure-data-service/) - Due: June 12, 2024 Use Cases to Inform a Future National Secure Data Service. The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), an independent federal statistical agency housed within the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), is responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data on the science and engineering enterprise (S&E). NCSES’s primary
- [Capital Readiness Program](https://nta.org/2024/04/03/2024-04-capital-readiness-program/) - Due: April 22, 2024 Designed for up to 10 health tech startups who are raising their first round from institutional investors, this 5-day program equips founders with the know-how to: - Create a capital ready due diligence deal room, - navigate legal, operational, and funding issues that will arise in due diligence, and - allows
- [RWP-MIC-24-01 Microelectronics](https://nta.org/2024/03/27/2024-04-rwp-mic-24-01-microelectronics/) - Due: April 26, 2024 The DoD’s Advanced PCBs and Electronic Substrates initiative is to invest in prototype projects across key strategic areas to bolster high-mix, low-volume domestic capabilities. Proposed solutions must be at least a technology readiness level (TRL) 6 and/or a manufacturing readiness level (MRL) of 5. Enhanced White Papers should align within one
- [Autonomous Decontamination System (ADS) with Modular Mission Payloads (MMP)- RFI](https://nta.org/2024/03/26/2024-04-autonomous-decontamination-system-ads-with-modular-mission-payloads-mmp-rfi/) - Due: April 12, 2024 A market survey is being conducted to identify potential industry sources capable of manufacturing automated technology to identify Biological Warfare Agents (BWA) for installation into the Enhanced Maritime Biological Detection (EMBD) system supporting the United States Navy (USN). The Autonomous Decontamination System (ADS) with Modular Mission Payloads (MMP) RFI has been
- [Expeditionary Carbon Utilization for energy Resilience and Stabilization (ExCURSion)](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-expeditionary-carbon-utilization-for-energy-resilience-and-stabilization-excursion/) - Due: April 29, 2024 The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the foundational technologies area to enable carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction, capture, and storage. These technologies are envisioned as key components for a future self-enclosed system that creates liquid carbon fuels and uses
- [Strategic Technology Office (STO) Office-wide](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-strategic-technology-office-sto-office-wide/) - Due: April 30, 2024 DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office (STO) is seeking innovative ideas and disruptive technologies that provide the U.S. military and national security leaders trusted, disruptive capabilities to win in all physical domains (Air, Space, Sea, and Land) and across the spectrum of competition, from deterrence to high-end peer combat. STO seeks to carry
- [BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE)](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-biological-undersea-energy-blue-2/) - Due: April 30, 2024 The BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE) program seeks to develop power supplies that capture and convert microscopic forms of marine biomass (e.g., dissolved organic matter (DOM), phytoplankton, zooplankton) and other substances (e.g., microplastics, nutrients) into electrical power. These power supplies are intended for onboard use by ocean-deployed sensor systems presently powered by
- [Coastal Ecosystems Climate Resilience](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-coastal-ecosystems-climate-resilience/) - Due: May 1, 2024 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, aims to promote scientific progress towards the understanding of coastal ecosystem resilience by seeking applications proposing research to 1) characterize, quantify, and define indicators or metrics of resilience for various types of coastal ecosystems, especially those
- [Civic Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-civic-innovation-challenge/) - Due: May 1, 2024 The Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) is a research and action competition that accelerates the transition to practice of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. By addressing priorities at the local scale that are relevant across the US, CIVIC is laying the foundation for a broader and more
- [Accelerated Research in Quantum Computing](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-accelerated-research-in-quantum-computing/) - Due: May 8, 2024 This FOA targets end-to-end software toolchains to program and control quantum systems and networks at scale (PRD1), quantum algorithms delivering quantum advantage (PRD2), and resilience through error detection, prevention, protection, mitigation, and correction (PRD4). These are key components for the development of a software ecosystem that must be ready to account
- [Multi-Messenger Coordination for Windows on the Universe](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-04-multi-messenger-coordination-for-windows-on-the-universe/) - Due: May 10, 2024 The astrophysics community has available a diverse and powerful network of ground- and space-based instruments and facilities to enable observers to identify the electromagnetic signatures of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (MMA) events, and then monitor and characterize their evolution. There also exists a rich set of software packages to track, schedule and support
- [ACED: Accelerating Computing-Enabled Scientific Discovery](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-aced-accelerating-computing-enabled-scientific-discovery/) - Due: May 13, 2024 The ACED program seeks to harness computing to accelerate scientific discovery, while driving new computing advancements. The intent is to catalyze advancements on both sides of a virtuous cycle that: (a) benefit scientific disciplines through computational technologies and (b) foster novel computing technologies that will enable advances beyond the specific use
- [Drug Development Tools Research Grants](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-drug-development-tools-research-grants/) - Due: May 13, 2024 The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support research to continue the development of drug development tools that have an accepted or a reviewable Letter of Intent (LOI) within a drug development tool qualification program within either CBER or CDER. Closed
- [Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-sustainable-regional-systems-research-networks/) - Due: May 15, 2024 The goal of this solicitation is to fund convergent research and education that will advance sustainable regional systems science, engineering, and education to facilitate the transformation of current regional systems to enhance sustainability. To further the advancement of SRS science, engineering, and education, NSF will support proposals for Sustainable Regional Systems
- [Bureau of Land Management Arizona Threatened and Endangered Species Program](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-bureau-of-land-management-arizona-threatened-and-endangered-species-program/) - Due: May 17, 2024 The BLM Arizona Threatened and Endangered Species Program works to conserve and recover over 330 federally-listed and over 2,700 Bureau sensitive animal and plant species and their habitat on public lands in collaboration with other BLM programs and partners. The State office is looking for projects that are state or regional
- [Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Science](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-advancements-in-artificial-intelligence-for-science/) - Due: May 21, 2024 The DOE SC program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) hereby announces its interest in basic computer science and applied mathematics research in the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science. The development of new AI techniques applicable to multiple scientific domains can accelerate progress, increase transparency, and open new areas
- [Novel Approaches for Radiation Biodosimetry Assays and Devices Development](https://nta.org/2024/04/11/2024-05-novel-approaches-for-radiation-biodosimetry-assays-and-devices-development/) - Due: May 31, 2024 The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support radiation research at all stages of development for the identification of biomarkers of injury and the development of assays or devices for the purpose of triage, including assessing absorbed dose or predicting health outcomes of acute or delayed injuries
- [Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions](https://nta.org/2024/04/15/2024-05-coupling-energetics-and-dynamics-of-atmospheric-regions/) - Due: May 3, 2024 The Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) program is a broad-based research program with the goal of understanding the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere in terms of coupling, energetics, chemistry, and dynamics on regional and global scales.
- [Great Lakes Restoration Initiative 2024 Request for Applications - Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network](https://nta.org/2024/04/15/2024-05-great-lakes-restoration-initiative-2024-request-for-applications-integrated-atmospheric-deposition-network/) - Due: May 6, 2024 The Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN) was established in 1990 as a binational monitoring network between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), in response to scientific evidence that demonstrated that input from the atmosphere is a significant source of many persistent toxic chemicals to
- [Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERCs) Program: RERC on Technology for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing](https://nta.org/2024/04/15/2024-05-rehabilitation-engineering-research-centers-rercs-program-rerc-on-technology-for-people-who-are-deaf-or-hard-of-hearing/) - Due: May 6, 2024 The purpose of the RERC program is to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act by conducting advanced engineering research on and development of innovative technologies that are designed to solve particular rehabilitation problems or to remove environmental barriers. RERCs also demonstrate and evaluate such technologies, facilitate service
- [Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program FY 2024](https://nta.org/2024/04/15/2024-05-snow-water-supply-forecasting-program-fy-2024/) - Due: May 6, 2024 The United States Department of the Interior (Department), Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (Program) aims to improve the skill of water supply forecasts via enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies to complement existing monitoring techniques and networks. Traditionally, basin snowpack information is based on
- [Material Synthesis Technologies for Universal and Diverse Integration Opportunities (M-STUDIO)2024-05](https://nta.org/2024/04/15/2024-05-material-synthesis-technologies-for-universal-and-diverse-integration-opportunities-m-studio2024-05/) - Due: May 6, 2024 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals in the following technical areas: development of a nano-scale heterogeneous material synthesis on lattice mismatch substrates to realize defect-free multi-layer heterogenous junctions with atomically sharp surface/interface and atomically abrupt compositional transition. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary
- [Food Science and Nutrition](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/food-science-and-nutrition/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Seeking new and improved processes, technologies, or services that address emerging food safety, food processing, and nutrition issues. CLOSED
- [Rural and Community Development](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/rural-and-community-development/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Seeking approaches or technologies, which may or may not be agriculture-focused, that address important economic and social development issues or challenges in rural America. CLOSED
- [Aquaculture](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/aquaculture/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Enhancing the knowledge and technology base necessary for the expansion of the domestic aquaculture industry as a form of production agriculture. CLOSED
- [Late-Stage Translation of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Results in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases from Academic/Non-profit Lab to Marketplace (SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Not Allowed)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/late-stage-translation-of-biomedical-and-behavioral-research-results-in-arthritis-and-musculoskeletal-and-skin-diseases-from-academic-non-profit-lab-to-marketplace-sbir-r43-r44-clinical-trial-not-a/) - DUE: September 5, 2024 Advancing the development of diagnostic and prevention tools or treatments for musculoskeletal, rheumatic, or skin diseases. Closed
- [High Efficiency X-ray (HEX) Production](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/high-efficiency-x-ray-hex-production/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Supporting the development of materials for converting electrons to x-rays with greater efficiency compared to conventional approaches. CLOSED
- [Open Topic for Family of Special Operations Vehicles](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/open-topic-for-family-of-special-operations-vehicles/) - DUE: December 21, 2023 Seeking innovations for securing cyber assets and systems within military vehicles. CLOSED
- [Assessing Virtual Private Network (VPN) Net-worthiness (AVN)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/assessing-virtual-private-network-vpn-net-worthiness-avn/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking techniques and systems for automatically analyzing third-party commercial VPN solutions to determine the actual operational privacy profile/performance of such services. CLOSED
- [Analyzing Narrative Evolution Across Social Networks](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/analyzing-narrative-evolution-across-social-networks/) - DUE December 31, 2023 Supporting applied research to automatically detect, track, and differentiate the evolution of narratives over time in the information environment to project long-term narratives among social networks. CLOSED
- [Open Topic for Temporary Stabilization of Corneal and Corneoscleral Injuries](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/open-topic-for-temporary-stabilization-of-corneal-and-corneoscleral-injuries/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Supporting the development of a non-surgical prototype technology that will temporarily stabilize suspected full thickness corneal and corneoscleral injuries during transport for surgical intervention. CLOSED
- [Anti-Shock Drug, Pre-Hospital (ASD-PH)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/anti-shock-drug-pre-hospital-asd-ph/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking pharmaceutical innovations for treatment of hemorrhagic shock in humans in a pre-hospital setting. CLOSED
- [Forests and Related Resources](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/forests-and-related-resources/) - Due: September 19, 2023 Seeking to increase the productivity of forest lands, improve sustainability and develop value-added materials derived from forest resources through the development of environmentally sound methods. CLOSED
- [Bright ELectron and Light Sources (BELLS)- SBIR XL](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/bright-electron-and-light-sources-bells-sbir-xl/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Demonstration and commercialization of practical sources of intense, tunable electrons and monochromatic hard x-rays for applications such as non-destructive inspection, medical diagnostics, and treatments. CLOSED
- [Plant Production and Protection: Biology](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/plant-production-and-protection-biology/) - Due: September 19, 2023 Seeking to improve plant production and resiliency through the utilization of traditional or novel approaches which deliver new characteristics, genotypes, or plants. CLOSED
- [5G Test Environment](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/5g-test-environment-5gte/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Developing a scalable, open-source Internet of Things (IoT) fifth generation (5G) test environment capability to support research and development of nascent 5G technologies. CLOSED
- [Electronic Control Unit Authentication In Autonomous Vehicles](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/electronic-control-unit-authentication-in-autonomous-vehicles-ecu2a/) - Due: December 31, 2023 In search of prototype systems to authenticate, monitor, and detect malicious activities in Electronic Control Units (ECUs) of modern intelligent military and civilian vehicles. CLOSED
- [Network Black Box](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/network-black-box-nbb/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking to develop and demonstrate a system prototype capable of automatically retaining, retrieving, and analyzing network data to support threat detection and response efforts by cyber security operations teams. CLOSED
- [Non-Refrigerant Based Cooling System For Cabin Cooling](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/non-refrigerant-based-cooling-system-for-cabin-cooling/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Seeking refrigerant-free cooling technologies for military vehicle cabins and electronics. CLOSED
- [Defense Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/08/08/defense-innovation-challenge/) - Due: August 25, 2023 TechConnect is proud to host the 2023 Defense Innovation Challenges, delivering transformational technologies to our National Defense.This Innovation Prospecting program is designed specifically to deliver private- sector early-stage technologies to the DoD in support of the warfighter. Submission into the Defense TechConnect Challenge is Free but there is a fee to
- [Army Tech Marketplace](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/army-tech-marketplace/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Solicitation for AI-enabled portal to improve the transition of R&D-funded technologies into the Army enterprise. CLOSED
- [Holistic Health and Fitness Readiness Kit (H2H Readiness Kit)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/holistic-health-and-fitness-readiness-kit-h2h-readiness-kit/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Seeking cost-effective infrastructure innovations for military training & readiness facilities. CLOSED
- [Wearable Radiation Sensors](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/wearable-radiation-sensors/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Seeking low SWAP radiation detection systems for field deployment by individual soldiers CLOSED
- [Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) Open Topic](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/artificial-intelligence-ai-machine-learning-ml-open-topic/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking innovations in artificial intelligence and machine learning for data processing, handling and analysis CLOSED
- [Passive Analytics for Remote Quantification of External Resources (PARQER)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/passive-analytics-for-remote-quantification-of-external-resources-parqer/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking approaches to develop and demonstrate novel techniques to passively assess the security posture of remote networks/subnetworks, without requiring any special network accesses. CLOSED
- [2D Polyglots](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/2d-polyglots/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Developing dual embedded formats for existing 2-dimensional codes that enable high-bandwidth, secure data transfer & assessment of potential security vulnerabilities in such approaches. CLOSED
- [Deuce Coupe](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/deuce-coupe/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Supporting the development of a cellphone system for assisting repurposing/ reuse of materials and components from target mechanical systems through image-feature extraction, natural language processing, and knowledge of physical dynamics. CLOSED
- [Empirical Proving Ground for Cryptographic Engineering Challenges in Large-scale Deployments (EPiC EagLe) – SBIR XL](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/empirical-proving-ground-for-cryptographic-engineering-challenges-in-large-scale-deployments-epic-eagle-sbir-xl/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Developing sound state-of-the-art experimental methodologies and operational benchmarks for evaluating distributed trust solutions. CLOSED
- [Safe Food for Everyone (SaFE)- SBIR XL](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/safe-food-for-everyone-safe-sbir-xl/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Seeking low SWAP non-isotopic sources for food irradiation and other applications requiring pathogen sterilization for use in austere or compromised environments. CLOSED
- [Exploiting Sparsity In Python (ESPy)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/exploiting-sparsity-in-python-espy/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Identification of programmers to develop methods for effectively and efficiently processing spare Python data sets of varying size, dimensions and complexity. CLOSED
- [Wearables At The Edge To Augment Readiness (WEAR)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/wearables-at-the-edge-to-augment-readiness-wear/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Developing a secure, low SWAP framework for real-time analysis of sensory data from wearables to monitor warfighter health and readiness at the edge. CLOSED
- [Synthetic User Personas (SUP)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/synthetic-user-personas-sup/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking comprehensive synthetic cyber security data for training and validating holistic cyber defense platforms. CLOSED
- [Super-Resolution Thermal Metrology For High Power Density Devices](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/super-resolution-thermal-metrology-for-high-power-density-devices/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Supporting the development a super-resolution thermal metrology tool for the accurate characterization of the thermal resistance of semiconductor materials, heterostructures and devices. CLOSED
- [Space Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array (Space-MESA)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/space-metamaterial-electronically-scanned-array-space-mesa/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Seeking metamaterials suitable for space-based, cost-effective, fully-steerable track-while-scan radars CLOSED
- [Plant Production and Protection- Engineering](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/plant-production-and-protection-engineering/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Commercializing engineering technologies that enhance system efficiency and profitability and protect crops from pests and pathogens in economically and environmentally sound ways. CLOSED
- [Small and Mid-Size Farms](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/small-and-mid-size-farms/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Seeking to promote and improve the sustainability and profitability of small and mid-size farms and ranches. CLOSED
- [Biofuels and Biobased Products](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/biofuels-and-biobased-products/) - DUE: September 21, 2023 Seeking technologies for the increased production of biofuels, industrial chemicals, and other value-added products from agricultural materials. CLOSED
- [Animal Production and Protection](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/animal-production-and-protection/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 The Animal Production and Protection topic area aims to develop innovative, marketable technologies that will provide significant benefit to the production and protection of agricultural animals. CLOSED
- [Land: Waste Treatment & Disposal](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/land-waste-treatment-disposal/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Slurry injection into engineered treatment devices, such as supercritical water oxidation technologies, that use higher temperature and pressures than ambient conditions and could provide treatment to complex waste matrices. CLOSED
- [Conservation of Natural Resources](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/conservation-of-natural-resources/) - DUE: September 19, 2023 Seeking innovative technologies to conserve, monitor, improve and/or protect the quality and/or quantity of natural resources while sustaining optimal farm and forest usage. CLOSED
- [Mobile Counter Small UAS Swarm Defeat Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/mobile-counter-small-uas-swarm-defeat-challenge/) - Due: August 27, 2023 Identification of technologies able to deter, detect, delay, deny, and defeat small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). CLOSED
- [National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Innovative Concept Award Program – Fiscal Year 2024](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/national-cancer-institute-nci-small-business-innovation-research-sbir-innovative-concept-award-program-fiscal-year-2024/) - Due: September 6, 2023 Transformative therapeutic technologies for treatment or prevention of Pediatric Cancers and/or Rare Cancers sought CLOSED
- [Technologies For Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R41/R42- Clinical Trial Optional)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/technologies-for-improving-minority-health-and-eliminating-health-disparities-r41-r42-clinical-trial-optional/) - Due: September 7, 2023 STTR Opportunity: Seeking approaches or technologies to improve minority health and outcomes by reducing health disparities in NIH-designated populations. Closed
- [Innovations For Healthy Living- Improving Minority Health and Eliminating Health Disparities (R43/R44- Clinical Trial Optional)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/innovations-for-healthy-living-improving-minority-health-and-eliminating-health-disparities-r43-r44-clinical-trial-optional/) - Due: September 7, 2023 SBIR Opportunity: Seeking approaches or technologies to improve minority health and outcomes by reducing health disparities in NIH-designated populations. Closed
- [Field-Deployable, Low-Cost Point-of-Need Approaches and Technologies to Lower the Barriers to Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Diagnosis and Treatment (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Optional)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/field-deployable-low-cost-point-of-need-approaches-and-technologies-to-lower-the-barriers-to-substance-use-disorders-sud-diagnosis-and-treatment-r41-r42-clinical-trial-optional/) - Due: November 10, 2023 STTR Opportunity: Seeking approaches and innovations for improving the quality and accessibility of diagnostics, treatments, and supports for individuals with substance use disorders. Closed
- [Field-Deployable, Low-Cost Point-of-Need Approaches and Technologies To Lower The Barriers to Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Diagnosis and Treatment (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/field-deployable-low-cost-point-of-need-approaches-and-technologies-to-lower-the-barriers-to-substance-use-disorders-sud-diagnosis-and-treatment-r43-r44-clinical-trial-optional/) - Due: November 11, 2023 SBIR Opportunity: Seeking approaches and innvoations for improving the quality and accessibility of diagnostics, treatments, and supports for individuals with substance use disorders. Closed
- [Non-Hydrofluorocarbon-Based Fire Extinguishing](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/non-hydrofluorocarbon-based-fire-extinguishing/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Safe and effective alternatives to Hydroflourocarbon fire extinguishing chemicals for use on military vehicles CLOSED
- [Vibe: Innovation in Commodity Coherence](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/vibe-innovation-in-commodity-coherence/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking the ability to perform beam forming operation utilizing COTS equipment. CLOSED
- [Digital Erasure of Sensitive FPGA Systems](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/digital-erasure-of-sensitive-fpga-systems/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Comprehensive digital erasure technologies for single-use defense hardware to prevent compromised technology or information by adversaries. CLOSED
- [xTechSBIR Autonomy Finalist Open Topic Competition](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/xtechsbir-autonomy-finalist-open-topic-competition/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking enhanced autonomy to enable new capabilities, improve performance, deliver faster production, or reduce costs for Army systems. CLOSED
- [Lethal Payloads for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/lethal-payloads-for-small-unmanned-aerial-systems/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking approaches for adapting existing munitions into lethal payloads for small unmanned aerial systems. CLOSED
- [AI/ML For Nitramine Recrystallization and Coating](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/ai-ml-for-nitramine-recrystallization-and-coating/) - Due: December 31, 2023 AI/ML-enabled sensor suites for real-time quality control during energetics production CLOSED
- [Sustainable Building Materials and Technologies Open Topic](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/sustainable-building-materials-and-technologies-open-topic/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking approaches and technologies to improve the the sustainability of enduring buildings through innovations in materials, end-of-life planning and logistics. CLOSED
- [xTechPrime Finalist Open Topic Competition](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/xtechprime-finalist-open-topic-competition/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Broad-spectrum call for innovative technologies addressing critical needs for defense-related programs and activities CLOSED
- [Dual Band Imager](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/dual-band-imager/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking low SWAP multi-spectral imager systems for military applications. CLOSED
- [Hydrogen Generator](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/hydrogen-generator/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking hydrogen "jerrycans" - portable technologies capable of producing hydrogen on-demand for combat vehicles. CLOSED
- [Conformable Hydrogen Storage](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/conformable-hydrogen-storage/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking high performance conformable hydrogen storage tanks for military combat vehicles. CLOSED
- [xTechSBIR Pacific Finalist Open Topic Competition](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/xtechsbir-pacific-finalist-open-topic-competition/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking innovative approaches and technologies to improve defense operations in areas such as logistics, communications, information acquisition and distribution and more. CLOSED
- [Casualty Care Training- Mixed Reality Manikin Solution for Female Soldier Survivability](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/casualty-care-training-mixed-reality-manikin-solution-for-female-soldier-survivability/) - DUE: December 31, 2023 Seeking high fidelity medical training digital twin to improve health outcomes for female soldiers with combat trauma. CLOSED
- [Diver Performance Monitoring System](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/diver-performance-monitoring-system/) - Due: December 31, 2023 Innovations which deliver real-time monitoring of diver biomarkers for enhanced safety sought. CLOSED
- [TReX II-RFI-23-F](https://nta.org/2023/07/21/trex-ii-rfi-23-f/) - Due: June 30, 2023 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the TReX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. CLOSED
- [Uniform Integrated Protective Ensemble Family of Systems Hood-Mask Interface (UIPE FoS HMI)- RFI](https://nta.org/2023/07/21/uniform-integrated-protective-ensemble-family-of-systems-hood-mask-interface-uipe-fos-hmi-rfi/) - DUE: July 31, 2023 JPEO CBRN and JPM CBRN Protection are seeking to obtain better knowledge and understanding of industry capabilities regarding hood and mask interface solutions and production of government owned interface solutions. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the CWMD Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if
- [CWMD-RPP-23-06 – CWMD2306 | M8 Compressors](https://nta.org/2023/07/21/cwmd-rpp-23-06-cwmd2306-m8-compressors/) - DUE: September 8, 2023 This requirement is to develop a replacement compressor to be integrated into M8 CBPS Environmental Control Unit (ECU) as a replacement, subject to the form, fit and function testing, to the current compressor (Bock, FKX3 A). Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the CWMD Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout
- [Space Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/08/01/space-innovation-challenge/) - Due: September 15, 2023 Achieve more in space! Enter your top technology to the Space Innovation Challenge by September 15. Finalists will pitch their solutions to an audience of technology integrators, funders, federal government, and corporate partners who will award $50,000 to three winners. For the first time, the Space Innovation Challenge will accelerate the
- [Expedient Basing Challenge Focus Areas 4-5](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/expedient-basing-challenge-focus-areas-4-5/) - Due: August 21, 2023 Requesting proposals focused on capabilities to provide the USAF with the ability to rapidly establish distributed operations in remote and isolated environments around the world. CLOSED
- [Science and Technology Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 23.4 Release 3](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/science-and-technologysmall-business-innovation-research-sbir-23-4-release-3/) - DUE: August 22, 2023 Requesting SBIR/STTR proposals focused on SOCOM234-003: Visual Augmentation Systems (VAS) Range Finder CLOSED
- [SBIR Phase IIB Bridge Awards to Accelerate the Development of Cancer-Relevant Technologies Toward Commercialization (R44 Clinical Trial Optional)](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/sbir-phase-iib-bridge-awards-to-accelerate-the-development-of-cancer-relevant-technologies-toward-commercialization-r44-clinical-trial-optional/) - DUE: August, 22, 2023 Solicitation for SBIR grant applications from small businesses to support later-stage research and development (referred to as Phase IIB) for projects that were previously funded under SBIR or STTR Phase II awards from any Federal agency. CLOSED
- [Small Business Transition Grant For Early Career Scientists (R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/small-business-transition-grant-for-early-career-scientists-r42-clinical-trial-not-allowed/) - DUE: August 22, 2023 Funding Opportunity for early-career academic scientists interested in transitioning to entrepreneurship while also supporting the transfer of technology from academic laboratories into small businesses. CLOSED
- [Zero-Liquid Discharge and Brine Concentrate Minimization](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/zero-liquid-discharge-and-brine-concentrate-minimization/) - DUE: August 23, 2023 Request for hardware to minimize or eliminate the liquid portion of brine concentrate and enable the treatment and potential use of different types of wastewater. CLOSED
- [Treatment and Destruction of PFAS In Wastewater and Other Waste Streams](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/treatment-and-destruction-of-pfas-in-wastewater-and-other-waste-streams/) - DUE: August 23, 2023 Request for hardware to minimize or eliminate the liquid portion of brine concentrate and enable the treatment and potential use of different types of wastewater. CLOSED
- [Innovative Technologies To Clean Indoor Air During Wildfire Smoke Events and Other High Pollution Days](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/innovative-technologies-to-clean-indoor-air-during-wildfire-smoke-events-and-other-high-pollution-days/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Request for hardware to significantly reduce indoor PM2.5 and other air pollutants (e.g., volatile organic compounds or VOCs), and maintain performance under real-word conditions (i.e., high outdoor concentrations). CLOSED
- [Air Pollution Control Technologies For Urban Small Sources](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/air-pollution-control-technologies-for-urban-small-sources/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Request for hardware for reducing emissions from small point sources in urban areas and improving local air quality, outdoor and indoor. CLOSED
- [Innovations In Slurry Injection Technology For Complex Waste Treatment and Disposal](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/innovations-in-slurry-injection-technology-for-complex-waste-treatment-and-disposal/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Technologies suitable for delivering waste slurry into treatment apparatus for processing and disposal CLOSED
- [AI-Based Indoor Mapping and Localization Using Smartphone Sensor Data](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/ai-based-indoor-mapping-and-localization-using-smartphone-sensor-data/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Seeking approaches for AI-enabled location mapping utilizing smartphone cameras and sensors. CLOSED
- [Innovative Technologies That Help Consumers Prevent Food Waste In The Acquisition, Preparation, and Storage of Food](https://nta.org/2023/08/06/innovative-technologies-that-help-consumers-prevent-food-waste-in-the-acquisition-preparation-and-storage-of-food/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Technologies for improving food safety, supply and accessibility through enhanced information and awareness, improved thermal management, and advanced packaging. CLOSED
- [Innovative Technologies or Materials That Will Improve The U.S.  Recycling System](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/innovative-technologies-or-materials-that-will-improve-the-u-s-recycling-system/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Seeking technologies to improve recycling including new materials or improved collection, sorting, or processing. CLOSED
- [HABs sensors that can monitor cyanobacteria and toxins](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/habs-sensors-that-can-monitor-cyanobacteria-and-toxins/) - DUE: August 23, 2023 Request for hardware for the real-time detection and/or monitoring of cyanobacteria and toxins, especially technologies suitable for remote deployment. CLOSED
- [Rubber Anti-Degradant Technologies For Tires and Other Rubber Products That Are Lower Concern For Human Health and The Environment](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/rubber-anti-degradant-technologies-for-tires-and-other-rubber-products-that-are-lower-concern-for-human-health-and-the-environment/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Innovations which deliver enhanced protective performance for natural or artificial rubber tires without negative environmental or health safety issues. CLOSED
- [Innovative Material Reduction and Reuse Solutions To Lower Embodied Carbon In The Built Environment](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/innovative-material-reduction-and-reuse-solutions-to-lower-embodied-carbon-in-the-built-environment/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Seeking innovations for improved sustainability in building construction such as enhanced materials usage or end-of-life options such as adaptive reuse, disassembly, or salvage. CLOSED
- [Innovative Enhanced Efficiency Fertilizers](https://nta.org/2023/08/07/innovative-enhanced-efficiency-fertilizers/) - Due: August 23, 2023 Advancements in agricultural fertilizers for corn or other row crops with reduced environmental impacts while maintaining overall yield levels. CLOSED
- [The Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM)](https://nta.org/2023/03/01/the-armed-forces-institute-for-regenerative-medicine-afirm/) - Due: March 16, 2023 at 12pm ET This funding opportunity is intended to support a goal/product-driven consortium of universities, companies, military laboratories, and investigators to accelerate development of regenerative medicine therapies. The award will be made to an organization able to serve as the Coordinating Site of the AFIRM Consortium to facilitate development and translation
- [Fusion Manufacturing Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/03/03/fusion-manufacturing-challenge/) - Due: April 21, 2023 At the center of our solar system and in the heart of active stars across the Universe, fusion generates the energy that delivers brilliance to both our day and nighttime skies. Under powerful gravitational fields, hydrogen atoms fuse into helium while releasing immense amount of energy and you’ve got a massive
- [Aeration Technologies For Dough](https://nta.org/2023/03/10/aeration-technologies-for-dough/) - Due: April 7, 2023 In the baking industry, the density of a baked good is critical to delivering the best possible experience for the consumer. Anyone who has made a cookie, cracker, soft cake, or other delicious baked good can tell you that dough before baking is quite dense, while the finished product is much
- [Natural Powdered Sweeteners](https://nta.org/2023/03/11/natural-powdered-sweeteners/) - Due: April 7, 2023 Mondelez, the global snack and beverage company, is interested in revolutionizing their powdered beverage brands by removing sugar and artificial sweeteners. The food company has explored numerous sweetener alternatives and flavor modifiers including carob extracts, miraculin, monk fruit and others. These options have presented issues with availability, handling, or performance. Consequently,
- [CBRN Defense Modernization Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/03/14/cbrn-defense-modernization-challenge/) - Due: April 14, 2023 Submit for a chance to pitch your CBRN Defense Modernization technology to top investment, industry and military tech-scouts as an unsolicited brief. Top ranked submissions will pitch in-person at the 2023 Medical & WMD Countermeasures Summit in conjunctions with the TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo (Washington, DC, June 2023). Participating
- [Energy and Logistics Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/04/05/energy-and-logistics-innovation-challenge/) - Due: May 4, 2023 Pitch and showcase your technologies to key military and industry leadership addressing the nation's top energy and logistics challenges. TechConnect, in cooperation with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Navy Operational Energy Office, and U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) is proud to co-develop the 2023 OELS in Honolulu. Challenge Topics Include:
- [NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge 2023](https://nta.org/2023/04/13/nasa-entrepreneurs-challenge-2023/) - Due: June 28, 2023 At NASA, there is no ambiguity in our mission: we reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind. Doing so however, doesn’t just require groundbreaking technologies, it requires visionary people - people who are unwilling to quit despite the most difficult of circumstances. Naturally, this environment
- [Cooling Technologies For Industrial Food Production](https://nta.org/2023/04/14/cooling-technologies-for-industrial-food-production/) - Due May 12, 2023 Mondelez International, the global food and snack manufacturer, currently utilizes carbon dioxide to cool its ingredients and doughs. Doing so helps keep materials within temperature specifications, positively impacting quality and manufacturing. Area of Interest 1: Cooling Dry Ingredients At present, CO2 cooling is applied in two stages: to the holding tanks
- [RWP-KIN-24-01 Kinetic Capabilities (Hypersonics)](https://nta.org/2024/04/16/2024-04-rwp-kin-24-01-kinetic-capabilities-hypersonics/) - Due: April 25, 2024 The objective for the Propulsion Systems and Energetics Prototyping for JANNAF projects are to improve the state-of-the-art in the field of propulsion systems and energetics for tactical, strategic and missile defense rockets and missiles, for space boost and orbit transfer, for in-spacepropulsion, and for gun propulsion systems. Prototyping shall include development
- [JXR-0082 – Scalable, Multi-domain, Innovative Technology Experimentation (SMITE)](https://nta.org/2024/04/18/2024-04-jxr-0082-scalable-multi-domain-innovative-technology-experimentation-smite/) - Due: April 24, 2024 This Request for Solutions (RFS) is seeking to the development of a prototype business process to support technology identification, modeling and simulation, experimentation and assessment of multi-domain autonomous systems in order to implement innovative technological solutions for the creation, design, development or demonstration of operational utility. The Government will evaluate the
- [Packaging Innovations For Product Integrity](https://nta.org/2023/04/28/packaging-innovations-for-product-integrity/) - Due: June 2, 2023 Packaging can identify products, keep them separated from one another, and protect them from transportation or environmental damage. TechConnect's client, a Fortune 500 consumer goods company, seeks innovative new packaging technologies or materials solutions to protect their confectionary products from common insect pests while in storage or retail environments. Currently, the
- [Advancements In Sub-Surface Detection and Inspection Technologies](https://nta.org/2023/05/22/advancements-in-sub-surface-detection-and-inspection-technologies/) - Due: June 29, 2023 Dundee Precious Metals, a Canadian exploration and mining company with sites around the globe, is interested in next-generation technologies to enhance its operations. Specifically, the company is interested in technologies which will accelerate the decision-making process for exploration of metals located within a site, including non-disturbing technologies that don't require drilling.
- [Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2023/05/23/modular-open-system-approach-mosa-innovation-challenge/) - Due: June 23, 2023 Pitch and showcase your technologies to key military and industry leadership addressing the nation's top Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) opportunities. TechConnect, in cooperation with the Vertical Lift Consortium and the nation's top MOSA funding, standards and support organizations and leadership are proud to deliver this unique program for top solution
- [Simulation Platforms For Beverages and Packaging](https://nta.org/2023/05/31/simulation-platforms-for-beverages-and-packaging/) - Due: June 23, 2023 A global food company is actively seeking innovative simulation software to accurately model powdered beverages and packaging, enabling the prediction of shelf stability. The company highly values approaches that enable simultaneous modeling of both the package and the consumable powder, as well as those that incorporate AI/ML components for enhanced predictive
- [Unified Integration and Transformation Enterprise (UnITE) Prototype Project](https://nta.org/2023/06/01/unified-integration-and-transformation-enterprise-unite-prototype-project/) - Due: June 2, 2023 The Army has a need to set conditions for modern training, threats, and test-based environments to achieve Multi-Domain Operations (MDO). The Unified Integration and Transformation Enterprise (UnITE) Prototype Project will achieve this by providing an enterprise-wide product line factory that enables PEO STRI training, threats and test-based programs to develop, secure,
- [E23-08-Commercialization](https://nta.org/2023/06/01/e23-08-commercialization/) - Due: June 19, 2023 To provide non-dilutive MTEC awards that fund M-Corps partner engagement for the purpose of providing members professional services that advance commercialization readiness. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right
- [Request For Information – Class 3 Protective Ensemble](https://nta.org/2023/06/01/request-for-information-class-3-protective-ensemble/) - Due: June 12, 2023 JPM CBRN Protection is requesting information on commercially-available or developmental fabric composites for chemical/biological (CB) defense. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium (CWMD). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly
- [IWRP-RPP-23-PAC-1793](https://nta.org/2023/06/01/iwrp-rpp-23-pac-1793/) - Due: June 6, 2023 Next Generation of Own Force Monitoring (OFM) Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Information Warfare Research Project Consortium (IWRP). This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the
- [Sustainability Innovations For Cosmetics](https://nta.org/2023/07/12/sustainability-innovations-for-cosmetics/) - Due: September 7, 2023 Reckitt is strongly committed to the sustainability of our products and delivering a positive consumer experience. We are looking for materials, technologies, or processes that can improve the sustainability of our cosmetic brands, while continuing to deliver world-class performance for our customers. In particular, we are interested in all approaches that
- [Consumer Safe Compounds With Improved Sporicidal Performance](https://nta.org/2023/07/12/consumer-safe-compounds-with-improved-sporicidal-performance/) - Due: September 7, 2023 Reckitt is seeking innovative new compounds that deliver improved sporicidal performance, while remaining safe and easy for consumer use. Current approaches for spore eradication, such as sodium hypochlorite, are effective but generally require a higher safety classification. We are interested in new methods for delivering the best disinfection performance and maintaining
- [TReX II-RFI-23-G](https://nta.org/2023/07/21/trex-ii-rfi-23-g/) - Due: June 30, 2023 Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the TReX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. CLOSED
- [Optimization and Utilization Of CPG Data](https://nta.org/2024/04/18/2024-06-optimization-and-utilization-of-cpg-data/) - Due: May 14, 2024 ABSTRACT A large, multinational Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) corporation wants to optimize the quality of their vast repository of product packaging data in order to better utilize it for business needs and goals. They seek to engage firms that specialize in data optimization or analytics to provide insights, structure, and
- [Remote Weapons System (RWS)/Fire Control System (FCS) Maturation and Integration for Hard Kill (HK) Active Protection System (APS)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-04-remote-weapons-system-rws-fire-control-system-fcs-maturation-and-integration-for-hard-kill-hk-active-protection-system-aps/) - Due: July 29, 2024 Remote Weapons System (RWS)/Fire Control System (FCS) Maturation and Integration for Hard Kill (HK) Active Protection System (APS) Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the TReX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we
- [Interoperable Networking for Training, Readiness, and Education in Medicine (INTREMED)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-interoperable-networking-for-training-readiness-and-education-in-medicine-intremed/) - Due: May 29, 2024 Interoperable Networking for Training, Readiness, and Education in Medicine (INTREMED). Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the TReX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are
- [Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Development and Validation of Model Systems to Facilitate Neurotherapeutic Discovery](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-06-innovation-grants-to-nurture-initial-translational-efforts-ignite-development-and-validation-of-model-systems-to-facilitate-neurotherapeutic-discovery/) - Due: June 24, 2024 This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) encourages the development and validation of animal models and human/animal tissue ex vivo systems that recapitulate the phenotypic and physiologic characteristics of a defined neurological or neuromuscular disorder. The goal of this FOA is to promote a significant improvement in the translational relevance of animal models
- [Consolidated Nerve Agent Treatment System](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/consolidated-nerve-agent-treatment-system/) - Due: September 18, 2024 FDA approval of a multi-drug autoinjector to reduce logistical burden on the warfighter and increase survivability Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage
- [Multi-Scale Models Bridging Levels of Analysis in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-06-multi-scale-models-bridging-levels-of-analysis-in-aging-and-alzheimers-disease-ad-and-ad-related-dementias-adrd/) - Due: June 13, 2024 The purpose of this funding opportunity is to invite applications proposing to establish multi-scale computational models recapitulating dynamic changes associated with aging and Alzheimers disease and Alzheimers disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). This broad scope encompasses a variety of computational approachessuch as mathematical and computational modeling, image analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learningto
- [Developmental Sciences Funding Opportunity](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-07-developmental-sciences-funding-opportunity/) - Due: July 30, 2024 Developmental Sciences supports basic research that increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan. Research supported by this program will add to our knowledge of the underlying developmental processes that support social, cognitive, and behavioral functioning, thereby illuminating ways for
- [Pediatric Immune System Ontogeny and Development (INTEND)](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-pediatric-immune-system-ontogeny-and-development-intend/) - Due: May 7, 2024 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to correlate immune systemdevelopment patterns between two or more age groups- neonates, infants, and children and adolescents and further understand the impact of infectious diseases, microbiome and environmental factors on ontogeny and development of pediatric immune system, from birth, transitioning into adolescence
- [Data Reduction for Science](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-data-reduction-for-science/) - Due: May 7, 2024 The principal focus of this FOA is to support applied mathematics and computer science approaches that address one or more of the identified PRDs: (1) effective algorithms and tools that can be trusted by scientists for accuracy and efficiency, (2) progressive reduction algorithms that enable data to be prioritized for efficient
- [Complete Streets AI Initiative -Generating, Integrating, and Activating Data for Mobility](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-complete-streets-ai-initiative-generating-integrating-and-activating-data-for-mobility/) - Due: May 10, 2024 The Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence Initiative is a multi-phase effort to develop a suite of powerful new decision-support tools for state, local, and tribal transportation agencies that assist in the siting, design, and deployment of Complete Streets. Closed
- [National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-national-artificial-intelligence-ai-research-institutes/) - Due: May 14, 2024 The 2023 update to theNational Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan,informed byvisioning activities in the scientific communityas well asinteraction with the public, identifies as its first strategic objective the need to make long-term investments in AI research in areas with the potential for long-term payoffs in AI. AI Institutes represent
- [Distributed Array of Small Instruments](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-distributed-array-of-small-instruments/) - Due: May 14, 2024 The Distributed Array of Small Instruments (DASI) solicitation is designed to address the increasing need for high spatial and temporal resolution measurements to determine the local, regional, and global scale processes that are essential for addressing the fundamental questions insolar and space physics. This solicitation will be formally divided into two
- [Use of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Investigations to Support Drug and Biological Product Development2024-05](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-use-of-digital-health-technologies-in-clinical-investigations-to-support-drug-and-biological-product-development2024-05/) - Due: May 20, 2024 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to address topics related to the use of digital health technologies (DHTs) for remote data acquisition in clinical investigations to support drug development. Closed
- [Cyber-Physical Systems](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-05-cyber-physical-systems/) - Due: May 30, 2024 By abstracting from the particulars of specific systems and application domains, the CPS (cyber-physical systems) program seeks to reveal cross-cutting, fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application domains. The program additionally supports the development of methods, tools, and hardware and software
- [Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium: Research Units](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/2024-06-pancreatic-cancer-detection-consortium-research-units/) - Due: June 11, 2024 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for the Research Units (RUs), one of the two scientific components of the Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium (PCDC), to conduct research on early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and characterization of its precursor lesions to identify those patients
- [EMC²: RFS 24-06 Uncrewed Systems (UXS) Experimentation and Demonstration Event](https://nta.org/2024/05/01/2024-05-emc²-rfs-24-06-uncrewed-systems-uxs-experimentation-and-demonstration-event/) - Due: May 13, 2024 NSWC – Crane is seeking novel air and maritime UXS to perform in a test and demonstration event in September 2024 in the Pacific Northwest. UXS are now a constant factor in warfare, and lessons learned from current events have shown that current UXS have a critical place in warfighting in
- [Chocolate Compounds Extraction](https://nta.org/2024/05/13/2024-06-chocolate-compounds-extraction/) - Due: June 11, 2024 ABSTRACT: The perception and enjoyment of chocolate depends on the complex interplay of compounds found within it. TechConnect's client wants the ability to selectively separate and retain target compounds in cocoa beans or chocolate in order to create new profiles for consumers. BACKGROUND: The human race has enjoyed cocoa beans and
- [RFS ADEB-24: Building Capacity for State, Local, and Territorial Governments](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-05-rfs-adeb-24-building-capacity-for-state-local-and-territorial-governments/) - Due: May 30, 2024 The objective of this project is to explore how a potential, future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) could support state, local, and or territorial capacity building through development of an interface and roadmap to enable repeatable state and local data analysis that may inform state and federal policies. This opportunity does
- [RWP-KIN-24-02 Solid Rocket Motors](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-06-rwp-kin-24-02-solid-rocket-motors/) - Due: June 6, 2024 The Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP) office is seeking additional SRM and/ or SRM component or sub-component suppliers to create a more resilient industrial base, increase domestic capacity, increase competition, and thereby drive down unit cost. This opportunity requires membership in the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). This Consortium releases
- [RWP-OA-24-01 Critical Sectors](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-09-rwp-oa-24-01-critical-sectors/) - Due: September 30, 2024 The DIBC Consortium Management Organization (CMO) published an open announcement (OA) for the Critical Sectors of: Kinetic Capabilities (OA-KIN-24-01); Energy Storage and Batteries (OA-BES-24-01); Castings and Forgings (OA-CF-24-01); Strategic and Critical Materials (OA-SCM-24-01); Microelectronics (OA-MIC-24-01); Workforce Development (OA-WFD-24-01). This opportunity requires membership in the Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC). This Consortium releases
- [Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-06-artificial-intelligence-formal-methods-and-mathematical-reasoning-2/) - Due: June 3, 2024 The Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing) program seeks to support research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery. Mathematical reasoning is a central ability of human intelligence that plays an important role in knowledge
- [Leveraging Data at Scale to Understand Natural Product Impacts on Whole Person Health](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/2024-06-leveraging-data-at-scale-to-understand-natural-product-impacts-on-whole-person-health/) - Due: June 28, 2024 This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) will support development, adaptation, and/or applications of computational tools to aggregate and analyze orthogonal chemical and/or biological data sets related to natural products with the aim of generating novel testable hypotheses regarding their biological activity and role in the context of whole person health research.
- [Safe & Secure Biotechnology Platforms for the APECx Program Survey](https://nta.org/2024/05/17/2024-05-safe-secure-biotechnology-platforms-for-the-apecx-program-survey/) - Due: May 17, 2024 The ARPA-H APECx program aims to develop a toolkit for precise chimeric and broadly efficacious vaccine antigen discovery. The development of the toolkits aim to be leverage information that’s developed through the APECx program, such as data from high-throughput functional analysis, novel method development, and the creation of novel protein modeling and
- [Data Integration to Estimate STEM Attrition and Workforce: A Pilot Approach](https://nta.org/2024/05/24/data-integration-to-estimate-stem-attrition-and-workforce/) - Due: July 2, 2024 Data Integration to Estimate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Attrition and Workforce Supply: A Pilot Approach This opportunity does not require membership in America’s Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have to become a member of ADC (at no cost) to accept. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year,
- [xTechSpecial Forces](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/xtechspecial-forces/) - Due: June 12, 2024 The U.S. Army invites U.S.-based small businesses to participate in xTechSpecial Forces, a competition for eligible vendors across the country to engage with the Department of Defense, earn prize money, participate in a business accelerator program and submit a Phase I or Direct to Phase II U.S. Army Small Business Innovation
- [Hydrogen Generation Salt-water Electrolysis with Chemical Compression](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/hydrogen-generation-salt-water-electrolysis-with-chemical-compression/) - Due: June 12, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Develop a hydrogen generation system that uses salt water to produce one to five kg of hydrogen over a 24-hour period in an austere environment. All components of the system shall be stored, transported, and operated in quad-con ISO containers. The system shall be required to leverage Onboard Vehicle Power
- [Unmanned Aerial System for Tag Deployment in Marine Mammal Monitoring](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/unmanned-aerial-system-for-tag-deployment-in-marine-mammal-monitoring/) - Due: June 12, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Technologies and techniques for marine mammal monitoring are growing rapidly but many barriers remain. This SBIR topic seeks to adapt a compact, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)-compliant, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS), unmanned aerial system (UAS), and develop the payloads to facilitate accurate deployment of Type A anchored biologging tags from small boats
- [Wireless Power Transfer](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-wireless-power-transfer/) - Due: June 12, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Develop Navy shipboard relevant wireless power transfer (WPT) methods for enabling new technologies such as Unmanned Vehicles (UxVs), providing new recoverability methods, providing shore power supply, and increasing energy resilience. Closed
- [Reentry Plasma Onset and Emergence Sensor](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-reentry-plasma-onset-and-emergence-sensor/) - Due: June 12, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Develop a sensor that can determine the onset of, and emergence from, a plasma environment that precludes the send and receipt of telemetry signals during ballistic reentry. Closed
- [Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program for CHIPS For America – CHIPS Metrology](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-small-business-innovation-research-sbir-program-for-chips-for-america-chips-metrology/) - Due: June 14, 2024 The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program for CHIPS for America – CHIPS Metrology seeks applications from eligible applicants to explore the technical merit or feasibility of an innovative idea or technology with the aim of developing a viable product or service that will be introduced to the commercial microelectronics marketplace.
- [Fiscal Year 2024 Individual State Earthquake Assistance (ISEA)](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-fiscal-year-2024-individual-state-earthquake-assistance-isea/) - Due: June 24, 2024 The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) seeks to mitigate earthquake losses in the United States through basic and directed research and implementation activities in the fields of earthquake science and engineering. NEHRP is a multi-agency program consisting of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), FEMA, the United States
- [Ruggedized Additive Mobile Manufacturing Unit (RAMMU)](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-ruggedized-additive-mobile-manufacturing-unit-rammu/) - Due: June 25, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this topic is to develop applied research toward an innovative capability to use additive manufacturing in a deployed environment with the ability to decrease down time for foreign and non-standard weapons parts, motor pool parts, and dental accessories. Closed
- [Thermal Barrier Minimal Deflection Handguard](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/2024-06-thermal-barrier-minimal-deflection-handguard/) - Due: June 25, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this topic is twofold. First, research thermodynamics involved in an over the suppressor handguard design. Secondly, designing a handguard with a toolless means of mounting. The Sig Sauer Rattler .300BO weapon system and the Sig Sauer SLH Suppressor is the host weapon associated with this SBIR. Closed
- [Remote Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Robotic Drill](https://nta.org/2024/06/06/remote-explosive-ordnance-disposal-eod-robotic-drill/) - Due: July 12, 2024 This special notice is to inform vendors of an upcoming Request for Solutions (RFS). NSWC Crane Division is seeking solutions to prototype novel EOD remote drilling robot that is man portable, and man emplaced with the capability to perform drilling on a variety of targets. The ability for the EOD Robot
- [Next-Gen Paper Container Innovations](https://nta.org/2024/06/07/2024-07-next-gen-paper-container-innovations/) - Due: July 9, 2024 ABSTRACT A leading global food and beverage container company seeks innovations to create the next generation paper container. A broad spectrum of technologies are in-scope for this effort, encompassing materials and processing equipment. BACKGROUND Originating early in the 20th century, the humble paper cup started as a public health innovation to
- [AMTC: Manufacturing Prototype Development for Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (SUAS)](https://nta.org/2024/06/07/2024-06-manufacturing-prototype-development-for-long-range-reconnaissance-lrr-small-uncrewed-aircraft-systems-suas/) - Due: June 19, 2024 Manufacturing Prototype Development for Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (SUAS). This opportunity requires membership in the AMTC Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready
- [Digital RF Battlespace Emulator (DRBE) Test & Evaluation (T&E) Transition Study](https://nta.org/2024/06/07/2024-06-digital-rf-battlespace-emulator-drbe-test-evaluation-te-transition-study/) - Due: June 14, 2024 Digital RF Battlespace Emulator (DRBE) Test & Evaluation (T&E) Transition Study. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the TReX II Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you
- [RFS for Engaging Policy Stakeholders to Inform a Future National Secure Data Service](https://nta.org/2024/06/10/rfs-for-engaging-policy-stakeholders-to-inform-a-future-national-secure-data-service/) - Due: July 10, 2024 Engaging policy stakeholders to inform a future national secure data service. This opportunity does not require membership in America's Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have to become a member of ADC (at no cost) to accept. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may
- [Software Defined RadioHead (SDRH)](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-software-defined-radiohead-sdrh/) - Due: July 2, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Develop a radio agnostic Software Defined RadioHead (SDRH) system with the capability to rapidly adapt the radio carrier frequency among diverse targeted frequency bands using analog and/or digital frequency conversion. Frequency translation of the original signal into a broad range of non-standard bands via the SDRH will help provide additional
- [RWP-OA-24-01 Critical Sectors](https://nta.org/2024/05/20/2024-09-white-papers-for-defense-production-act-title-iii-and-industrial-base-analysis-and-sustainment/) - Due: September 30, 2024 The Defense Industrial Base Consortium (DIBC) is excited to release the Open Announcement OA-24-01, which is open to companies located in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the UK. Responses will be accepted through September 30, 2024 at 5:00pm ET. Submissions must fall within one more of the critical sectors and areas
- [Multisystem Mobile Corrosion Unit](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-multisystem-mobile-corrosion-unit/) - Due: July 2, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this topic is to create a deployable solution for the Army's major corrosion issue, to be able to repair in austere environments while out in the field.DESCRIPTION: The Letterkenny Army Depot (LEAD) has requirements to deploy a mobile corrosion unit that has the following capabilities: laser ablation,
- [Miniaturization of Hyperspectral Sensors for UAS Applications](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-miniaturization-of-hyperspectral-sensors-for-uas-applications/) - Due: July 2, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Further develop existing sensor or prototype to meet the necessary Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) requirements for integration into various ongoing modernization programs. This topic seeks to develop a direct-to-phase-two, internally calibrated, compact, passive, day/night capable hyperspectral (hundreds of channels) sensor that will result in up to an order of
- [Advanced Miniature Mission Processor for Hyperspectral Applications](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-advanced-miniature-mission-processor-for-hyperspectral-applications/) - Due: July 2, 2024 OBJECTIVE: Further develop existing computer or prototype to meet the necessary Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements for integration into various ongoing modernization programs. This topic seeks to develop a direct-to-phase-two, low-size, weight (<3lbs) and power (SWaP), high-performance computer for an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)-integrated hyperspectral imaging (HSI) camera. Closed
- [Atmospheric Water Extraction Plus (AWE+)](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-atmospheric-water-extraction-plus-awe/) - Due: July 2, 2024 OBJECTIVE: AWE+ seeks to develop novel atmospheric water extraction (AWE) technology with potential for energy use below 100Wh electric per liter of water generated across a wide range of environments. Integrate the technology into a proof-of-concept prototype producing potable water with a clear path to full-size implementation. Closed
- [Development of novel 5G Open RAN (Radio Access Networks) xApp and rApp Applications Open Topic](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-development-of-novel-5g-open-ran-radio-access-networks-xapp-and-rapp-applications-open-topic/) - Due: July 9, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking the development and demonstration of xApps and/or rApps focused on security and security related network measurement. DoD anticipates increasing reliance on 5G and FutureG OpenRAN networks, and needs tools and techniques that will enhance the security and resilience of these networks. As 5G
- [Mercury emissions monitoring from seawater flue gas desulfurization](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-mercury-emissions-monitoring-from-seawater-flue-gas-desulfurization/) - Due: July 12, 2024 The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) announces an open competition for an organization interested in submitting an application to implement a project aimed advancing implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury by building capacity for continuous monitoring of mercury emissions in salt
- [Improving Operations and Reducing Mercury Use in Small-scale Gold Mining Processing](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-improving-operations-and-reducing-mercury-use-in-small-scale-gold-mining-processing/) - Due: July 12, 2024 The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting an application to implement a project aimed the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury by improving operational controls and management systems at small-scale gold processing centers
- [Engaging Partners in East and South Africa on illicit People’s Republic of China’s and Russian Proliferation Networks](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-engaging-partners-in-east-and-south-africa-on-illicit-peoples-republic-of-chinas-and-russian-proliferation-networks/) - Due: July 15, 2024 The Department of State’s Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (ISN/NDF) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/NDF invites non-profit/non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and educational institutions to submit proposals for projects that will advance the NDF’s nonproliferation mission by
- [Landscape Characterization and Monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-landscape-characterization-and-monitoring-in-the-chesapeake-bay-watershed/) - Due: July 16, 2024 The Notice of Funding Opportunity is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with updated land use/land cover data, enhanced river corridor data, and landscape metrics and communication products associated with these data to facilitate their application to CBP's outcomes and
- [Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Polypharmacology to Discover Pharmacotherapeutics for Substance Use Disorders](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-harnessing-artificial-intelligence-and-polypharmacology-to-discover-pharmacotherapeutics-for-substance-use-disorders-2/) - Due: July 26, 2024 The goal is to leverage AI/ML tools to identify pharmacotherapeutic development candidates with lower toxicity and higher efficacy to prevent or treat SUDs. Molecules may include new chemical entities, investigational compounds, and repurposed marketed medications. AI/ML tools can pinpoint the most promising targets, design effective ligands based on predicted drug-likeness, and
- [ML/AI Tools to Advance Genomic Translational Research (MAGen)](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-ml-ai-tools-to-advance-genomic-translational-research-magen/) - Due: July 28, 2024 The National Human Genome Research Institute aims to setup a research Consortium, ML/AI Tools to Advance Genomic Translational Research (MAGen), to collaboratively explore the feasibility of developing Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that can enhance the accuracy and precision of predicting how individuals with pathogenic genetic variants manifest
- [Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-07-quantum-information-science-enabled-discovery/) - Due: July 30, 2024 he DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) hereby announces its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on Quantum Information Science (QIS) Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) to further the HEP mission to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level. Successful applications will help define an
- [COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) Program](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-compact-front-end-filters-at-the-element-level-coffee-program/) - Due: August 2, 2024 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative proposals that demonstrate integration of technology developed in the COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level (COFFEE) program. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary
- [Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Centers](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-senator-paul-d-wellstone-muscular-dystrophy-specialized-research-centers/) - Due: August 3, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit applications for Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Specialized Research Centers (MDSRCs). These Centers promote collaborative basic, translational, and clinical research and provide important resources that can be used by the national muscular dystrophy research community. A goal of
- [NEI Research for Low Vision and Blindness Accessibility Tools](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-nei-research-for-low-vision-and-blindness-accessibility-tools/) - Due: August 13, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to stimulate translational efforts in developing and implementing accessibility devices or interventions that apply new technologies to address challenges faced by individuals living with visual impairment. Critical elements of applications include a clear set of milestones that support development and testing
- [Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-correctness-for-scientific-computing-systems/) - Due: August 13, 2024 Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2) is a joint program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The program addresses challenges that are both core to DOE’s mission and essential to NSF’s mission of ensuring broad scientific progress. The program’s overarching goal is to elevate correctness
- [DoD Prostate Cancer, Implementation Science Award](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-dod-prostate-cancer-implementation-science-award/) - Due: August 30, 2024 Research supported by the Implementation Science Award is expected to have the potential for major, near-term impact that will accelerate the widespread adoption of evidence-based practices in prostate cancer care, prevention, and survivorship. Applications are expected to identify the prostate cancer patients or at-risk individuals who would ultimately benefit from the
- [Advancing HIV service delivery through pharmacies and pharmacists](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-advancing-hiv-service-delivery-through-pharmacies-and-pharmacists/) - Due: August 13, 2024 The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to solicit research designed to capacitate, transform, and scale the delivery of HIV testing, prevention, and care services through pharmacists and pharmacies in US and/or global settings. This includes theadvancement of training curricula to enable pharmacy students, pharmacists, pharmacies, and pharmacy
- [DoD, Melanoma, Focused Program Award - Rare Melanomas](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-08-dod-melanoma-focused-program-award-rare-melanomas/) - Due: August 26, 2024 FPA-RM applications must describe a unifying, overarching question that will be investigated by a set of research projects to address a critical unmet need relevant to rare melanoma research and/or patient care. The question may focus on one specific rare melanoma, or the question may be designed to address a critical
- [Biodiversity on a Changing Planet](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-09-biodiversity-on-a-changing-planet/) - Due: September 5, 2024 The Biodiversity on a Changing Planetprogram is a cross-directorate and international program led by NSF that invites submission of interdisciplinary proposals addressing grand challenges in biodiversity science within the context of unprecedented environmental change, including climate change. Successful BoCP proposals will test novel hypotheses about functional biodiversity and its connections to
- [FY2024 CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute Competition](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-09-fy2024-chips-manufacturing-usa-institute-competition/) - Due: September 9, 2024 This NOFO seeks proposals from eligible applicants for activities to establish and operate a CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute focused on digital twins with integrated physical assets and computational capabilities (digital assets) to tackle important semiconductor-industry manufacturing challenges. The CHIPS Manufacturing USA Institute will join an existing network of seventeen Institutes designed
- [DoD Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic, Clinical Translational Research Award](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/2024-09-dod-peer-reviewed-orthopaedic-clinical-translational-research-award/) - Due: September 17, 2024 Orthopaedic injuries have a profound impact on military readiness and return to work/activity/duty. In the military, extremity battle wounds comprise approximately 50% of injuries reported in the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. Additionally, orthopaedic injuries and conditions that occur outside of combat (e.g., during training, leisure activities, resultant from old injuries)
- [Odor Delivery System and Cell Free Detection System](https://nta.org/2024/06/13/2024-06-odor-delivery-system-and-cell-free-detection-system/) - Due: June 29, 2024 Development of innovative solutions to provide a safe, quantitative, portable, and repeatable odor delivery system of various chemical, biological, and explosive (CBE) threat materials from a Person-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (PBIED) to stand-off detectors. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous
- [Synthetic Data Generation with Large, Real-World Data](https://nta.org/2024/06/25/2024-07-synthetic-data-generation-with-large-real-world-data/) - Due: July 16, 2024 The objective of this project is to improve understanding of how synthetic data generators work with large real-world data (RWD) (e.g., datasets with over 30 billion rows of data) to inform a synthetic data generator toolkit. This opportunity does not require membership in America's Datahub Consortium. However, if you win, you have
- [DoD Specialty Battery Source of Supply Development](https://nta.org/2024/07/08/2024-07-rfs-24-05-dod-specialty-battery-source-of-supply-development/) - Due: July 17, 2024 The purpose of this RFS is intends to address supply chain risks by soliciting development, prototyping and demonstration efforts to help mitigate potential problems through application of modernized, advanced manufacturing technologies across four focus areas: critical battery materials, critical battery components, critical processes assessment and mitigation, and battery development and prototype.
- [AI-DQSI-24 Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Data Quality, Standardization, and Integration for Federal Statistics](https://nta.org/2024/07/08/2024-07-ai-dqsi-24-artificial-intelligence-for-enhancing-data-quality-standardization-and-integration-for-federal-statistics/) - Due: July 25, 2024 The objective of AI-DQSI-24 is to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in the processing, formatting, standardization, and integration of data to support activities that are integral to statistical agencies’ production of high-quality statistics and data products. This opportunity does not require membership in America's Datahub Consortium. However, if you
- [AI-RD-24 AI-Ready Data Products to Facilitate Discovery and Use](https://nta.org/2024/07/08/2024-07-ai-rd-24-ai-ready-data-products-to-facilitate-discovery-and-use/) - Due: July 25, 2024 The objective of this project is to explore how a future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) could provide shared information and tools for making statistical data products more readily ingestible by AI technologies. These resources could support federal agencies and their partners throughout the data and evidence ecosystem as they balance
- [RFS MSH-24 Measuring Sexual Harassment in the Science Technology Education and Mathematics](https://nta.org/2024/07/10/2024-07-rfs-msh-24-measuring-sexual-harassment-in-the-science-technology-education-and-mathematics/) - Due: July 29, 2024 The objective of this study is to implement some of what was learned in Phase 1 to develop and test the core questions and a module to be added to existing NCSES surveys to measure sexual harassment in the STEM enterprise. This opportunity does not require membership in America's Datahub Consortium. However,
- [RFS Tactical Engagement Simulation Systems (TESS) Laser Detector](https://nta.org/2024/07/10/2024-07-24-06-rfs-tactical-engagement-simulation-systems-tess-laser-detector/) - Due: July 24, 2024 Tactical Engagement Simulation System (TESS) Laser Detector. This opportunity requires membership in the TReXII Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous opportunities throughout the year, so even if this one may not be right for you, we strongly encourage you to join the consortium, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete the
- [Aviation Universal Charger](https://nta.org/2024/07/18/aviation-universal-charger/) - Due: September 5, 2024 The purpose of this RFS is to solicit innovative proposals for fieldable, deployable, functional way to maintain, analyze, charge, and discharge the legacy and future aviation batteries. A three phased approach is preferred. The first phase takes the project through preliminary design review and closeout. This first phase should include identifying
- [Capital Readiness Program](https://nta.org/2024/07/22/2024-09-capital-readiness-program/) - Due: September 27, 2024 This 5-day boot camp prepares medtech, digital health, and healthcare technology startups to raise their first round from institutional investors. We equip founders with the know-how to create a capital ready due diligence deal room, help navigate sophisticated investor and partner capital related inquiry and due diligence processes, and provide direct
- [Smart Cities - Smart Bases Innovation Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/07/23/the-smart-cities-smart-bases-innovation-challenge/) - Due: September 6, 2023 The Smart Cities - Smart Bases Innovation Challenge wants to know how YOU can deliver cutting-edge, dual-use technology to address the overlapping technical, environmental, and security challenges facing both smart cities and smart bases. Apply for a chance to present your solution on stage at the joint Defense TechConnect and Smart Cities Connect
- [TREXII Digital OnRamp Platform](https://nta.org/2024/07/23/2024-08-trexii-digital-onramp-platform/) - Due: August 16, 2024 The desired objective is to provide private sector and government with a secure, scaled, and efficient platform that delivers the following user experiences for discovering/matching capabilities and/or needs across multiple data sources. Obtaining relevant, actionable, and accountable guidance/information. Lastly identifying optimum pathways for education, engagement, transition. This opportunity requires membership in
- [Advancements in Radiation Detection Hardware and Software](https://nta.org/2024/07/24/2024-08-advancements-in-radiation-detection-hardware-and-software/) - Due: August 19, 2024 The Defense Threat Reduction Agency Research and Development (DTRA-RD) Directorate, Nuclear Detection Division (NTD) develops and transitions state-of-the-art radiation detection technologies to Department of Defense operational users. NTD recently adopted a modular, family-of-systems approach to research and development, resulting in a significant increase in technology transition. These capabilities underpin advances in
- [Oil Sands Artificial Lift Challenge](https://nta.org/2024/08/15/2024-09-oil-sands-artificial-lift-challenge/) - Due: September 30, 2024 About: Diverse pressures ranging to hundreds of kPa to more than 2 MPa. Temperature approaching 250°C. Five hundred meters underground. A complex flow of solids, liquids and gases. That’s the environment at the intake of an electric submersible pump raising a slurry of bitumen, methane, alkane solvent, water, sand and steam
- [Northern Gulf of Mexico Monitoring for Protected Birds](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-09-northern-gulf-of-mexico-monitoring-for-protected-birds/) - Due: September 2, 2024 The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and its partners are seeking to develop, automate, and enhance the detection and classification of important species in high-resolution aerial imagery by leveraging cutting-edge technologies, such as deep learning computer vision frameworks. This study will develop detection and classification algorithms for protected species using
- [Models To Predict The Removal Of Emerging Micropollutants From Water By Novel Adsorbents In Fixed-Bed Column Processes](https://nta.org/2024/08/29/2024-10-models-to-predict-the-removal-of-emerging-micropollutants-from-water-by-novel-adsorbents-in-fixed-bed-column-processes/) - Due: October 2, 2024 This program is designed to accelerate “the development and deployment of innovative water technologies that address pressing drinking water supply, quality, treatment, or security challenges of public water systems, areas served by private wells, or source waters.” Under the program, EPA shall make grants “(1) to develop, test, and deploy innovative
- [Small Molecule Therapeutics](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/small-molecule-therapeutics/) - Anticipated Release Date: Q1FY24 OR Q2FY24 Small Molecule Therapeutics Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the year, so even if this opportunity may not end up being right for you, we strongly encourage you to join, so you are ready for the next opportunity. Complete
- [Webinar: Demystifying MOSA For Stakeholders](https://nta.org/2024/09/13/webinar-demystifying-mosa-for-stakeholders/) - Join NTA’s MOSA Catalyst Community Co-Chair, John Stough, for an insightful webinar designed to equip you with the skills needed to effectively explain MOSA to a diverse set of stakeholders. While Catalyst Community members are already familiar with MOSA concepts, this session will bridge the gap for those outside our community who need to understand
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- [Introducing The National Technology Alliance](https://nta.org/2023/09/07/introducing-the-national-technology-alliance/) - September 6, 2023 at 12pm ET Speakers: Dr. Matthew Laudon and Laura Murphree In an ever-evolving landscape of technological advancements, the critical bridge between groundbreaking innovations and tangible commercialization opportunities is becoming increasingly vital. The National Technology Alliance (NTA) stands at the forefront of this transformative journey by connecting early-stage innovations with curated funding and
- [About The Fusion Manufacturing Challenge: Webinar](https://nta.org/2023/09/07/about-the-fusion-manufacturing-challenge-webinar/)
- [About The Health Tech and Space Sprint: Webinar](https://nta.org/2023/09/07/about-the-health-tech-and-space-sprint-webinar/)
- [Webinar: Space Commercialization: Getting Someone Else To Pay For It](https://nta.org/2024/09/13/webinar-space-commercialization-getting-someone-else-to-pay-for-it/) - No longer the exclusive realm of national space agencies, commercial entities of all sizes and interests are reaching up to put their tech into Lower Earth Orbit (LEO). One big question faced by those enterprising space economy companies: how to pay for it. Enter the Advanced Manufacturing in Space Catalyst Community! We’re holding an informational
- [US Army Tests eVTOL Technology For Further Applications](https://nta.org/2022/08/03/us-army-tests-evtol-technology-for-further-applications/) - The US Army DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center is testing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for critical military, cargo, and medical operations usage. Flight tests are being conducted by DEVCOM and the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate’s AFWERX Agility Prime project. One of the eVTOL demonstrators being tested is a product of
- [RISE Consortium: Collaborating With DoD To Enhance Energy and Climate Resilience](https://nta.org/2021/09/08/rise-consortium-collaborating-with-dod-to-enhance-energy-and-climate-resilience/) - The Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium seeks to address the energy security and climate crises by reimagining how the Department of Defense (DoD) uses, generates, transports, and stores energy and how it can build efficient, modern, resilient infrastructure. This webinar will focus on the climate and energy security crises and highlight how the
- [Game Changing Technique Achieves 98.7% Silver Recovery from Spent Solar Cells](https://nta.org/2024/09/05/game-changing-technique-achieves-98-7-silver-recovery-from-spent-solar-cells/) - By combining the techniques of hydrometallurgy and electrochemical deposition, researchers at the University of Camerino in Italy have been able to boost the recovery rate of silver from spent solar cells to 98.7%. Compared to conventional approaches, this approach is also environmentally friendly. Recovering metals from a product can usually be accomplished by leaching, but
- [TU Delft Launches Swarming Lab to Develop Self-Flying Drone Swarms Inspired by Nature](https://nta.org/2024/08/23/tu-delft-launches-swarming-lab-to-develop-self-flying-drone-swarms-inspired-by-nature/) - The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands has opened a new lab dedicated to researching how autonomous miniature drones can mimic insects to accomplish various tasks. The Swarming Lab aims to put a "self-flying" swarm of 100 tiny drones in the air, where they will perform around the clock tasks, such as
- [Innovative Cooling and Heating Solution from UCLA Could Transform Building Energy Efficiency](https://nta.org/2024/08/28/innovative-cooling-and-heating-solution-from-ucla-could-transform-building-energy-efficiency-2/) - A team of researchers from UCLA has developed a cost-effective and scalable method to cool buildings during the summer and heat them in the winter. “If we look at historical cities like Santorini in Greece or Jodhpur in India, we find that cooling buildings by making roofs and walls reflect sunlight has been practiced for
- [New Cornell Biochip Mimics Infection to Quickly Assess Coronavirus Variant Threats](https://nta.org/2024/08/20/new-cornell-biochip-mimics-infection-to-quickly-assess-coronavirus-variant-threats/) - Cornell University researchers have developed a bioelectric device that can detect and classify coronavirus variants by mimicking the infection process on a microchip. This device - which uses a biomembrane to simulate the cellular environment - can rapidly determine the potential threat level of each variant, making it a quick and effective tool for early
- [University of Chicago Researchers Develop Cooling Fabric to Combat Urban Heat](https://nta.org/2024/08/08/university-of-chicago-researchers-develop-cooling-fabric-to-combat-urban-heat/) - A team at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has developed a new fabric that could help people survive the worst impacts of heat, particularly in urban environments. This new textile reduces heat from both the sun and thermal radiation from nearby buildings, and has the potential to be used in
- [MIT Develops SuperLimbs to Aid Astronauts on the Moon, Boosting Safety and Efficiency](https://nta.org/2024/07/17/mit-develops-superlimbs-to-aid-astronauts-on-the-moon-boosting-safety-and-efficiency/) - The SuperLimbs project at MIT aims to improve astronaut mobility on the moon with robotic limbs that will help them stand after falls. This is the latest application of SuperLimbs, which were first developed about a decade ago, and are currently used to assist workers in aircraft manufacturing, construction, and shipbuilding. “Astronauts are physically very
- [New High-Entropy Cathode Material Enhances Magnesium Battery Performance at Low Temperatures](https://nta.org/2024/07/22/new-high-entropy-cathode-material-enhances-magnesium-battery-performance-at-low-temperatures/) - A team of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new cathode material for rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs), enabling efficient charging and discharging at low temperatures. This new material uses an enhanced rock-salt structure and a high-entropy strategy, enabling it to overcome previous challenges in magnesium diffusion and transport. This could lead to
- [From Air to Ocean: NC State Unveils Innovative Sensors for Diverse Environmental Monitoring](https://nta.org/2024/08/06/from-air-to-ocean-nc-state-unveils-innovative-sensors-for-diverse-environmental-monitoring/) - Researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) have developed a technique for creating “amphibious” sensors that can function both in air and underwater. These amphibious sensors have potential for use in applications ranging from wildlife monitoring to biomedical applications. The team’s current work is focused on strain sensors, which measure deformation - how things
- [What If You Could Predict 70% Of Earthquakes? UT Austin Says You Can](https://nta.org/2024/08/01/what-if-you-could-predict-70-of-earthquakes-ut-austin-says-you-can/) - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an AI algorithm that correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week before they happened during a seven-month trial in China. This new technology gives hope that accurate earthquake prediction could one day aid in limiting earthquakes’ impact on lives and economies. “Predicting earthquakes is the
- [New Method for Monitoring Contaminants in Bioethanol Production Promises $1.6 Billion Boost](https://nta.org/2024/07/25/new-method-for-monitoring-contaminants-in-bioethanol-production-promises-1-6-billion-boost/) - Researchers at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) have developed a new method for monitoring contamination in bioethanol production that has the potential of boosting industry revenue by over $1.6 billion USD, while also cutting CO2 emissions by 2 million tons. Contaminant bacteria present in the raw material used for bioethanol production
- [AI Predicts Alzheimer's Disease](https://nta.org/2024/07/09/ai-predicts-alzheimers-disease/) - Researchers at Boston University (BU) have developed an AI model that can predict - with a high degree of accuracy - whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s-associated dementia within the next six years. This breakthrough could lead to earlier treatment interventions. Current methods for assessing whether someone has Alzheimer’s disease involve a
- [Advanced System For Protection and Integrated Reduction of Encumbrances (ASPIRE)](https://nta.org/2024/08/21/advanced-system-for-protection-and-integrated-reduction-of-encumbrances-aspire/) - Anticipated Release: Q3FY26 ASPIRE will provide respiratory and ocular protection against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear threats that allows near normal operations by minimizing or eliminating physical and psychological burden and increasing Warfighter lethality. Responding to this opportunity requires membership in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Consortium. This Consortium releases numerous solicitations throughout the
- [PNNL Develops Iron-Based Flow Battery for Safe, Grid-Scale Energy Storage](https://nta.org/2024/07/03/pnnl-develops-iron-based-flow-battery-for-safe-grid-scale-energy-storage/) - A team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has created a new battery design using an ordinary chemical used in water treatment facilities. The aqueous iron redox flow battery they designed shows the potential for grid-scale deployment with enhanced safety features. The chemical - nitrogenous triphosphate, nitrilotri-methylphosphonic acid (NTMPA) - is
- [Breakthrough Lanthanum-Doped Material Enhances Efficiency in Extreme Conditions](https://nta.org/2024/06/27/breakthrough-lanthanum-doped-material-enhances-efficiency-in-extreme-conditions/) - Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a thermally refractory material - lanthanum-doped barium stannate oxide (LBSO) - that maintains its optical properties even at temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius and in strong ultraviolet illumination. The material has potential uses in a range of arenas, such as space, aerospace, and
- [Peptide Hydrogels: Changing The Way We Do Wound Healing and Tissue Repair](https://nta.org/2024/06/20/peptide-hydrogels-changing-the-way-we-do-wound-healing-and-tissue-repair/) - A research team led by Dr. Emilio I. Alarcón from the University of Ottawa has developed peptide-based hydrogels that are designed to close skin wounds, administer therapeutic agents to damaged heart tissue, and repair and reshape injured corneas. “We are using peptides to fabricate therapeutic solutions. The team is drawing inspiration from nature to develop
- [OSD A&S Battery Supply Chain Risk Mitigation Projects](https://nta.org/2024/04/09/osd-as-battery-supply-chain-risk-mitigation-projects/) - Anticipated Release Date: May 7, 2024 The DoD directly and indirectly acquires many types of specialty batteries but in comparatively small quantities. Specialty batteries are defined as, but are not limited to, liquid reserve, thermal, primary (non-rechargeable) and some secondary (rechargeable, noncommercial) types currently used in military systems. These batteries are made with optimized chemicals,
- [Waste To Energy Solutions](https://nta.org/2024/04/19/waste-to-energy-solutions/) - Anticipated Release Date: April 2024 NSWC – Crane is researching the development of working prototypes to innovative solutions and technologies to reduce waste and processes in a way that makes disposal both useful and safe. Waste-to-Energy innovation should also eliminate burn pit effect on climate, which remains a top DOD priority, as well as mitigate the
- [Innovative Nanogel Targets Glial Cells for Effective Spinal Cord Injury Treatment](https://nta.org/2024/06/12/innovative-nanogel-targets-glial-cells-for-effective-spinal-cord-injury-treatment/) - An innovative nanogel has shown effectiveness in targeting glial cells for the treatment of spinal cord injuries. Researchers from the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS and the Politecnico di Milano developed a nanovector that is capable of delivering anti-inflammatory drugs in a targeted manner into glial cells actively involved in the evolution of
- [Edible Sensors Aid In Detecting Gastrointestinal Diseases](https://nta.org/2024/06/10/edible-sensors-aid-in-detecting-gastrointestinal-diseases/) - Researchers from Heriot-Watt University, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Edinburgh, have developed an ingestible capsule dotted with very thin sensors that can detect pressure in a patient’s guts and detect points of failure. This new technology could transform the process of detecting gastrointestinal diseases and conditions, which could significantly improve their treatment.
- [France Uses Microsensors To Keep Road Infrastructure Secure](https://nta.org/2024/06/05/france-uses-microsensors-to-keep-road-infrastructure-secure/) - French company SilMach has been chosen by the SIRCAPASS project (Surveillance of Road Infrastructures by Passive Sensors) to provide ultra-cheap microsensors to monitor and ensure the structural health of bridges across France. SIRCAPASS is part of France 2030 - a strategic €34 billion investment by the French government with the aim of kickstarting economic growth
- [Harvard Researchers Develop A New Programmable Metafluid](https://nta.org/2024/06/03/harvard-researchers-develop-a-new-programmable-metafluid/) - A team from Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a versatile, programmable metafluid that can change its properties in response to pressure. This meta fluid has the potential for use in robotics, optical devices, and energy dissipation. “We are just scratching the surface of what is possible with
- [Goodbye Salt. Welcome Self Heating Concrete.](https://nta.org/2024/05/29/goodbye-salt-welcome-self-heating-concrete/) - The College of Engineering at Drexel University has developed a self-heating concrete that can melt inches of snow without using salt. In the northern regions around the world, millions of dollars are spent to repair roads damaged by ice, and billions of dollars are spent on ice removal operations. The ability to maintain roadways at
- [Transforming Composite Materials: MIT Engineers Develop Nano Stitching for Stronger, Lighter Aircraft](https://nta.org/2024/05/16/transforming-composite-materials-mit-engineers-develop-nano-stitching-for-stronger-lighter-aircraft/) - Engineers at MIT’s necstlab have developed a new technique called nano stitching that promises to radically change how composite materials are constructed. The research group at necstlab - pronounced next lab - explores new concepts in engineered materials and structures. Advanced composites - also called thin-ply carbon fiber laminates - are used to construct lighter
- [Innovative Heart Monitoring Inspired by Sea Turtles](https://nta.org/2024/05/24/innovative-heart-monitoring-inspired-by-sea-turtles/) - A team of researchers from the North University of China created an array of highly sensitive heart-monitoring technologies that are low cost and do not require medical training in order to monitor heart health. In seeking to create this new technology, Dr. Junbin Zang’s team turned to the unique auditory anatomy of sea turtles. Rather
- [Laser-Enhanced Cork Emerges as Eco-Friendly Solution For Marine Oil Spills](https://nta.org/2024/05/14/laser-enhanced-cork-emerges-as-eco-friendly-solution-for-marine-oil-spills/) - Researchers from Central South University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are using laser treatments to transform ordinary cork into an effective and nontoxic tool for cleaning up marine oil spills. Cork is a highly renewable material as it can be harvested about every seven years from the bark
- [University of Nottingham's Breakthrough in Sustainable Hydrogen Production](https://nta.org/2024/04/18/university-of-nottinghams-breakthrough-in-sustainable-hydrogen-production/) - A team of researchers from the University of Nottingham has developed a method to convert metal waste into a catalyst for producing hydrogen from water. In the future, this new technique could enhance the sustainability of hydrogen production. Though hydrogen is highly desirable as it is a clean fuel that only produces water vapor as

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- [OPPORTUNITIES](https://nta.org/category/opportunities/)
- [AUTONOMY AND MANUFACTURING](https://nta.org/category/autonomy-manufacturing/)
- [ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS](https://nta.org/category/advanced-communications/)
- [MEDIA HITS](https://nta.org/category/media-hits/)
- [EVENT](https://nta.org/category/event/)

## Tags

- [OPPORTUNITIES](https://nta.org/tag/opportunities/)
- [ADVANCED MATERIALS](https://nta.org/tag/advanced-materials/)
- [AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE](https://nta.org/tag/aerospace-and-defense/)
- [AI AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION](https://nta.org/tag/ai-and-digital-transformation/)
- [AUTONOMY AND MANUFACTURING](https://nta.org/tag/autonomy-and-manufacturing/)
- [BIOTECH AND MEDICAL](https://nta.org/tag/biotech-and-medical/)
- [ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY](https://nta.org/tag/energy-and-sustainability/)
- [MICROELECTRONICS](https://nta.org/tag/microelectronics/)
- [ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS](https://nta.org/tag/advanced-communications/)
- [UPCOMING](https://nta.org/tag/upcoming/)
- [ACTIVE](https://nta.org/tag/active/)
- [CLOSED](https://nta.org/tag/closed/)
- [FEATURED](https://nta.org/tag/featured/)
- [ATI](https://nta.org/tag/ati/) - Everything that comes from ATI consortia etc
- [MOSA](https://nta.org/tag/mosa/)