Our primary vehicle for funding basic and applied R&D programs is the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA).
A program BAA defines an area of interest and specifies the type of award (contract, grant, or cooperative agreement). BAAs are open to all proposers who can meet the agency’s needs. They do not guarantee an award will be made.
All BAAs are posted to the federal government’s System for Award Management.
Ideas wanted
Each of our technical offices maintains a dedicated BAA to enable researchers to propose ideas that may fall outside our current priorities but have potential value to national security.
To guide proposers, each office-wide BAA outlines the office’s current technical areas of interest. Office-wide BAAs are refreshed annually.
Explore office-wide BAAs
Get to know our current interests and priorities and pitch your best idea to our technical offices.
- Biological Technologies
- Defense Sciences
- Information Innovation
- Microsystems Technology
- Strategic Technology
- Tactical Technology