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US Department of Defense

US Department of Defense grant announcements cover basic and applied research funded through the service research offices and DARPA-style agencies.

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Open calls
79
open and forthcoming
Published budget
$1.1B
summed across topics
Grants expected
2339
projects that will be funded
Closing within 30 days
39
move now or wait for the next round

What this programme is

US Department of Defense grant announcements cover basic and applied research funded through the service research offices and DARPA-style agencies. Many are broad agency announcements that stay open for months and accept white papers continuously, which is why their deadlines behave differently from a European call.

All 79 of the calls open under it now accept a single applicant, so there is no consortium to assemble.

The published expectation across these calls is 2339 funded projects, the honest denominator when you weigh whether to spend a month writing. The next cut-off is 21 Oct 2026.

When it closes

19 months carry a cut-off. Each links to every call closing that month, across all programmes.

October 202611 cut-offsNovember 202628 cut-offsDecember 20264 cut-offsJanuary 20272 cut-offsMarch 20271 cut-offApril 20275 cut-offsSeptember 20271 cut-offJanuary 20281 cut-offFebruary 20281 cut-offAugust 20281 cut-offDecember 20281 cut-offMay 20291 cut-offJuly 20291 cut-offAugust 20291 cut-offJanuary 20302 cut-offsFebruary 20301 cut-offJune 20301 cut-offAugust 20311 cut-offSeptember 20341 cut-off

Closing soonest

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The nine nearest cut-offs under this programme. Everything else is in the full list, where you can filter by deadline, applicant type and funding rate.

CallNext cut-offPer grant
DoW Military Burn, Discovery AwardHT942526MBRPDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 21 Oct '26in 0d $200Kper grant DoW Military Burn, Technology/Therapeutic Development AwardHT942526MBRPTTDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 21 Oct '26in 0d $1.7Mper grant DoW Military Burn, Patient-Centered Research AwardHT942526MBRPPCRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 21 Oct '26in 0d $1.7Mper grant DoW Arthritis Translational Research AwardHT942526ATRPTRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $800Kper grant DoW Autism Idea Development AwardHT942526ARPIDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $750Kper grant DoW Arthritis Clinical Research AwardHT942526ATRPCRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $1.8Mper grant DoW Tick-Borne Disease Idea Development AwardHT942526TBDRPIDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $700Kper grant DoW Autism Clinical Trial AwardHT942526ARPCTA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $3.3Mper grant DoW Autism Career Development AwardHT942526ARPCDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 22 Oct '26in 1d $750Kper grant

Other funders in North America

ProgrammeOpen callsPublished budgetSoonest cut-off
US Department of Health and Human Services 980 $2.3B 29 Sept '26
US National Science Foundation 107 $3.9B 21 Oct '26
US Department of State 70 $2.7B 09 Sept '26
US federal, USDOJ 54 $258M 29 Sept '26
US Department of the Interior 39 $439M 29 Sept '26
US Department of Agriculture 19 $771M 26 Oct '26
Canada, Alberta 16 , TBA
NASA 15 , 26 Oct '26

Figures are computed from what US Department of Defense itself publishes. A call appears here only while a cut-off is still ahead of it.

About US Department of Defense

Who can apply to US Department of Defense calls?
It is set per call, not per programme. 100% of these calls accept a single applicant; 0 require a consortium. Where the conditions state the requirement we quote the sentence they state it in; where they do not, we infer it from the type of action and mark it as inferred, and an inferred value never appears without that mark.
What does the budget figure mean?
It is the sum of what the funder published per call, in the funder's own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. Calls that publish no budget contribute nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.
How often does this page change?
The corpus is re-synced nightly and the site is rebuilt with it. Cut-offs and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync leaves this page rather than sitting here with a stale date.
Can I see only the calls I could win?
Yes, the fit check reads every call on this page against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility, and it runs in your browser with no account. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.

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