SBIR/STTR topics

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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

• 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 
  Open: Aug. 6, 2025
  Closes: Sept. 24, 2025
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• 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
  Open: Aug. 6, 2025
  Closes: Sept. 24, 2025
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• 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: Sept. 24, 2025
  Closes: Oct. 22, 2025
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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: Sept. 24, 2025
  Closes: Oct. 22, 2025
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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: Sept. 24, 2025
  Closes: Oct. 22, 2025
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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: Sept. 24, 2025
  Closes: Oct. 22, 2025
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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: Sept. 24, 2025
  Closes: Oct. 22, 2025
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