SBIR/STTR FY25 Topic Opportunities

Each year, we publish multiple topic opportunities under the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

All SBIR/STTR topics fall under the current Department of Defense (DOD) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for that program.

SBIR | 2025.4 Announcement Topics

Open 

• Turbo Facility Clearance (TurboFCL)
  Description: Develop a prototype software application, based on language models, to learn the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) facility and personnel clearance process.
  Tech office: Strategic Technology Office
  Topic #: HR0011SB20254-04
  Deadline: Feb. 5, 2025
  Solicitation
  FAQs 

Closed 

• Non-destructive Viral ID
  Objective: Develop field-portable, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) technology for non-destructive viral identification.
  Tech office: Biological Technologies
  Topic #: HR0011SB20254-01 
  Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
  Solicitation
  FAQs 
   
• Language Models for Veteran Suicide Prevention (LM4VSP)
  Objective: Develop a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) clinical co-pilot, based on Language Models, to augment the ability of mental health care professionals to care for and interact with patients at risk of suicide.
  Tech office: Information Innovation
  Topic #: HR0011SB20254-02
  Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
  Solicitation
  FAQs 
   
• Multi-factor Continuous Authentication for Wearable Defense Equipment (MCAWDE)
  Objective: Develop and demonstrate novel, continuous, multi-factor authentication solutions for small weight and power devices. 
  Tech office: Information Innovation
  Topic #: HR0011SB20254-03
  Closed: Jan. 8, 2025
  Solicitation
  FAQs 
   

STTR | 2025.D Announcement Topics

Open 

• Analyzing the Trade-off Between Bias and Accuracy
  Description: Develop new methods to analyze the trade-off between accuracy and bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-01
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation
   
• Mitigating Explicit and Implicit Bias Through Hybrid AI
  Description: Develop new neuro-symbolic methods that can mitigate both explicit (e.g., symbolic descriptions of bias) and implicit (e.g., the learned model parameters) biases in artificial intelligence (AI).
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-02
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation
   
• Unlearning Bias
  Description: Develop new methods that can unlearn the bias in artificial intelligence (AI) models.
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-03
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation
   
• Bias Datasets for the Department of Defense (DoD)
  Description: Develop new datasets for detecting bias in DoD applications.
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-04
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation
   
• Model-Agnostic Detection of Bias (MAD-Bias)
  Description: Develop new methods to detecting bias inherent in the datasets being used regardless of what the architecture of the downstream artificial intelligence (AI) model is.
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-05
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation
   
• Addressing Underrepresentation Through Data Augmentation
  Description: Develop new data augmentation techniques that address the underrepresentation of concepts, including artificial intelligence (AI) disparities across socio-ethno-political divides.
  Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
  Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-06
  Deadline: Feb. 26, 2025
  Solicitation