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* Pending SBIR/STTR program reauthorization, closing dates for active topics are To Be Determined (TBD). For more information, see the Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal

 

Active announcement topics

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 War (DoW) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for that program.

SBIR | 2025.4

  • Assessing Security of Encrypted Messaging Applications (ASEMA)
    Objective: Seeking novel approaches to defend SMAs by modeling their security risks and recommending defensive measures to protect these critical platforms.
    Tech office: Information Innovation
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-12
    Pre-release: Sept. 3, 2025
    Open: TBD*
    Closes: TBD*
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  • Pulsed High-power Laser Accelerators to Study radiation Hardening (PHLASH)
    Objective: Demonstrate a prototype scalable laser driver for electron beam generation and design a 100-GeV system to fit within a 250 m3 footprint.
    Tech office: Microsystems Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-13
    Pre-release: Sept. 3, 2025
    Open: TBD*
    Closes: TBD*
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  • Unbiased Behavioral Discovery Platforms
    Objective: Develop unguided behavioral discovery technologies to accelerate detection and medical countermeasure development against current and future threats.
    Tech office: Biological Technologies
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-15
    Pre-release: Sept. 3, 2025
    Open: TBD*
    Closes: TBD*
    Solicitation 
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  • ALIAS Missionized Autonomy for Emergency Services - SBIR XL
    Objective: Focuses on development and demonstration of missionized autonomy for emergency services, initially focusing on autonomous wildfire response using autonomous Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) and integrated sensing technologies.
    Tech office: Tactical Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254XL-01
    Pre-release: Sept. 3, 2025
    Open: TBD*
    Closes: TBD*
    Solicitation 
    FAQs 
     

Closed announcement topics

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SBIR | 2025.4
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
     
  • On-Chip Wavelength Generation for DWDM Photonic Transceivers
    Objective: Develop and demonstrate prototype integrated photonic Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transceivers with on-chip wavelength generation. 
    Tech office: Microsystems Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-05 
    Closed: June 25, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs
     
  • Cooperative Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing Processing (CHAMP)
    Objective: Develop field-portable, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) technology for non-destructive viral identification.
    Tech office: Strategic Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-06 
    Closed: June 25, 2025
    Solicitation
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  • Improving Battle Planning through AI
    Objective: Develop innovative technologies for federated course of action (COA) planning and accelerated COA adjudication using customized reduced order models (ROMs).
    Tech office: Strategic Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-07 
    Closed: June 25, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs
     
  • Inertially Scaled Aircraft (ISaAc)
    Objective: Develop and flight test a small (55 to 300 lbs.) unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that is inertially scaled to a tactically relevant target aircraft.
    Tech office: Tactical Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-08 
    Closed: June 25, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs
     
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer Drag Reduction via Surface Actuators
    Objective: Develop and flight test turbulent boundary layer drag reduction using surface actuators.
    Tech office: Tactical Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-09 
    Closed: June 25, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs
     
  • Predictive Psychological Architectures for Decision-Making (PPADM)
    Objective: This effort aims to understand the association between decision-maker characteristics and behavior to improve human and algorithmic decision-making, delegation, and trust.
    Tech office: Information Innovation
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-10 
    Closed: Sept. 24, 2025
    Solicitation 
    FAQs 
     
  • High Power Fiber Amplifier (HPFA) Power Scaling
    Objective: Develop and demonstrate novel concepts for scaling individual high power fiber amplifiers (HPFAs) to power levels >10 kW with good beam quality.
    Tech office: Strategic Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-11
    Closed: Sept. 24, 2025
    Solicitation 
    FAQs 
     
  • Narcissus (Cancelled)
    Objective: Aims to rapidly develop computational imaging, artificial intelligence, or machine learning innovations that can perform the coherent and incoherent combination of incident photon flux to enable compensated image reconstruction for light reflected from every window of a skyscraper.
    Tech office: Strategic Technology
    Topic #: HR0011SB20254-14
    Solicitation 
    FAQs 
     
STTR | 2025.D
  • Analyzing the Trade-off Between Bias and Accuracy (Amended)
    Objective: 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
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
     
  • Mitigating Explicit and Implicit Bias Through Hybrid AI (Amended)
    Objective: 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
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs 
     
  • Unlearning Bias (Amended)
    Objective: Develop new methods that can unlearn the bias in artificial intelligence (AI) models.
    Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
    Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-03
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs 
     
  • Bias Datasets for the Department of Defense (DoD) - (Amended)
    Objective: Develop new datasets for detecting bias in DoD applications.
    Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
    Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-04
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
     
  • Model-Agnostic Detection of Bias (MAD-Bias) - (Amended)
    Objective: 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
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs 
     
  • Addressing Underrepresentation Through Data Augmentation (Amended)
    Objective: To develop new data augmentation techniques that address the underrepresentation of concepts, including artificial intelligence (AI) disparities.
    Tech office: Information Innovation Office (I2O)
    Topic #: HR0011ST2025D-06
    Closed: March 12, 2025
    Solicitation
    FAQs 
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