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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 Defense (DOD) 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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  • Narcissus
    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
    Pre-release: Sept. 3, 2025
    Open: TBD*
    Closes: TBD*
    Solicitation 
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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 
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Closed announcement topics

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SBIR | 2025.4
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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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