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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
126
open and forthcoming
Published budget
$1.3B
summed across topics
Grants expected
2581
projects that will be funded
Closing within 30 days
43
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 126 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 2581 funded projects, the honest denominator when you weigh whether to spend a month writing. The next cut-off is 08 Sept 2026.

When it closes

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

September 202629 cut-offsOctober 202637 cut-offsNovember 202628 cut-offsDecember 20261 cut-offJanuary 20271 cut-offApril 20272 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
Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton Natural Resources Support- Juvenile Salmonid Surveys in Sinclair Inlet, WAW9126G262RFP1101 · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 08 Sept '26in 2d $208Kper grant DoW Hearing Restoration Focused Research AwardHT942526HRRPFRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 10 Sept '26in 4d $933Kper grant DoW Vision, Mentored Clinical Research AwardHT942526VRPMCRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 10 Sept '26in 4d $75Kper grant Cook Inlet Beluga Whale (CIBW) Prey, Salmon Productivity Monitoring at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER).W9126G262SOI9667 · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 10 Sept '26in 4d $1.3Mper grant DoW Neurofibromatosis Research Academy – Leadership AwardHT942526NFRPNFRALA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 14 Sept '26in 8d $2.4Mper grant Conservation and Forestry Program Support (2026-2031) for Environmental Natural Resources Management Division, Directorate of Public Works, Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, LouisianaW9126G262RFP9554 · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 14 Sept '26in 8d $7.6Mper grant Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton Natural Resources Support- Juvenile Salmonid Surveys in Sinclair Inlet, WAW9126G262RFP1011 · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 14 Sept '26in 8d $208Kper grant DoW Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Clinical/Translational Research AwardHT942526DMDRPCTRA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 18 Sept '26in 12d $1.4Mper grant DoW Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Idea Development AwardHT942526DMDRPIDA · US Department of Defense · single applicant* 18 Sept '26in 12d $500Kper grant

Other funders in North America

ProgrammeOpen callsPublished budgetSoonest cut-off
US Department of Health and Human Services 961 $4.0B 07 Sept '26
US Department of State 87 $3.0B 06 Sept '26
US National Science Foundation 87 $3.9B 08 Sept '26
US Department of the Interior 42 $540M 08 Sept '26
US federal, USDOJ 38 $260M 08 Sept '26
US Department of Agriculture 32 $768M 08 Sept '26
US Department of Commerce 16 $14M 09 Sept '26
Canada, Alberta 16 , TBA

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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