361 topics, open or in pre-release, read from DSIP and SBIR.gov on Nov 12, 2026.
The U.S. Army is seeking innovative force sustainment solutions from eligible small businesses across the U.S. through the xTech Kinetic Reach competition. This platform offers participants the opportunity to engage with the Department of ...
The United States currently faces an "unprecedented" military buildup by China and increasing air and missile threats that demand a robust deterrent. However, the current inventory of long-range strike weapons is dominated by high-cost ...
Develop and demonstrate Command Electromagnetic Management & Command-node Awareness, Management, and Obscuration (CEMA CAMO), a low-cost, distributed, and attritable electromagnetic spectrum capability that enhances Command Post ...
To accelerate decision-making and enhance space domain awareness across the joint force, the United States Space Force (USSF) requires an advanced data fusion and automated analytics platform. This effort will deliver integrated ...
Develop, integrate, and demonstrate a low-SWaP-C neuromorphic IR sensor to support celestial navigation to enable position and navigation of sUAS in a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) denied environment in day and nighttime for ...
Develop, mature, integrate, and flight-demonstrate technologies enabling an autonomous, runway-independent Group 2/3 VTOL UAS capable of persistent ISR/SOF operations, extended-duration flight, modular payload employment, resilient ...
Develop, integrate, and demonstrate modular technologies enabling Group 2/3 UAS or similarly expendable autonomous aircraft to collaboratively generate distributed non-kinetic mission effects in contested environments. The objective is to ...
Develop, integrate, flight-test, and demonstrate an affordable, expendable autonomous air “One-Way Attack” (OWA) vehicle capable of delivering a mission-relevant payload over operational ranges of 400 nautical miles threshold to 1,200 ...
Investigate, design, prototype, and experimentally evaluate advanced open-architecture methodologies and reconfigurable subsystem integration concepts within an external modular pod construct (threshold baseline: Air Force Research ...
Develop and flight-demonstrate a standards-compliant, rapidly reconfigurable hybrid communications system using a SOSA Small Form Factor Line Replaceable Unit capable of supporting multiple waveforms, frequency bands, and Multi-Level ...
Develop and validate an innovative unified financial operations (FinOps) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution to solve lifecycle cost, resource predictability, and performance modeling challenges within modern defense ...
Mature and validate expeditionary 3D concrete printing technologies, materials, and geometries so military personnel can rapidly construct combat-relevant, blast-resistant force-protection structures at contested airbases.
Wideband receivers used in electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SigInt), and electronic support measures (ESM) need to instantaneously capture broad swaths of spectrum to avoid missing frequency agile radio frequency (RF) ...
The United States Air Force relies on yttrium iron garnet (YIG)-based microwave filters for critical radar, electronic warfare, and communications systems. These components require high-quality YIG epitaxial films in the 10–150 µm ...
Investigate and validate the feasibility of developing a novel quantum-based sensing technology utilizing Rydberg atomic sensors as an ultra-wideband universal measurement standard for electromagnetic systems. Demonstrate the potential of ...
The objective of the proposed effort is twofold: 1) Model and simulate the combined effects of thermal, temporal, chemical, and geometric changes to solid propellants that occur over time for in rocket motor grains, and 2) integrate ...
Develop a low-power, real-time precision liquid-to-gas phase-change feed system featuring active molecular feedback control to enable the seamless integration of liquid propellants (including next-generation green liquid propellants such ...
Develop and validate a capability that modernizes B-52 AI Performance Chart capability that automates approved performance calculations, supports disconnected EFB operations, and provides accurate, auditable outputs for aircrew ...
Develop a dynamic and scalable signal representation to describe complex waveforms in a compressed format for RF spectrum knowledge sharing between Electronic Support (ES) systems and control the deployment and operation of Electronic ...
Design, fabricate, and experimentally test a wideband antenna solution ready to be integrated with standard RF-photonics transceiver modules. The antenna module must satisfy two key requirements. First, they should be fully compatible with ...
Develop and demonstrate an super intelligence (SI)-driven signal processing framework that leverages high-dimensional spectral feature extraction, adaptive neural control loops, and secure human-machine teaming to detect, classify, and ...
Develop ultra-low latency audio data obscuration techniques optimized for Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications over Fifth Generation (5G) frequency bands to enhance the resilience and operational effectiveness of Command and ...
Develop and demonstrate a robust multi-user signal separation for tactical waveforms to improve the quality of likelihoods prior to being processed by soft-decision decoding algorithms.
Develop and demonstrate a modular software reference implementation of a government-specified tactical waveform on a Digital Transceiver to establish an open architecture that leverages novel processing to transition from legacy ...
Design, develop, and demonstrate a ruggedized, field-deployable vehicle forensics device capable of non-destructive, rapid data triage and extraction.