SBIR/STTR weekly digest: week of Oct 12, 2026

350 open or upcoming topics tracked (NSF 268, DOW 67, HHS 11, EPA 4). Snapshot generated from SBIR.gov and DoD Innovation Portal data; confirm details in each official solicitation.

New topics released in the past 7 days (23)

AI-Enabled Computed Vision Air-to-Air Refueling Performance Assessment and Automated Pilot Debrief System · DOW / USAF · DAF27TZ01-DV001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Advanced Reserve Power Source Technologies · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV013 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Agile Autonomous Technical Data Package to Path Robotic Task Specification · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV012 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Agile Wire Harness Manipulation and Installation for Unmanned Aerial Systems · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV011 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Cleaner for the Time Domain Reflectometer Tank Level Indicator · DOW / NAVY · DON27BZ01-NV001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Rapid Maturation · DOW / OSD · OSW27BZ01-NV001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Rapid Maturation · DOW / OSD · OSW27BZ01-DV002 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Cyber Resiliency for Fog and Edge Computing Devices · DOW / USAF · DAF27TZ01-DV002 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Fire Resistant Joiner Bulkhead · DOW / NAVY · DON27BZ01-NV002 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Fusion of Cooperative Information Sharing for Uncrewed Air Systems (FOCISAUS) · DOW / USAF · DAF27TZ01-DV003 · closes Nov 25, 2026
G-TEAD USAREUR-AF ACE 27-02: Spectrum Enabled Warfare Powered by xTech · DOW / ARMY · ARM27BX01-DP001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
High Speed, Low Temperature Hyperspectral Imager for High Enthalpy Ground Testing · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-NV006 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Input-Output Unit (IOU) for Secure Processing and Routing of Hull, Mechanical, & Electrical (HM&E) and Navigation Signals · DOW / NAVY · DON27BZ01-NV004 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Intermediate Temperature Cooling Unit · DOW / NAVY · DON27BZ01-NV005 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Long Rod Delivery System · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-NV004 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Low SWaP, 2-micron Fiber Amplifiers · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV010 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Multiple Telemetry Site Signal Source Synchronization · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-NV003 · closes Nov 25, 2026
ONR Open Topic for Low-Cost Heads Up Displays (HUDs) for Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR) · DOW / NAVY · DON27BX01-NP001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Optimally Packaged Assembly for Laser Systems (OPALS) · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-NV002 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Reusable Illumination System · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV007 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Shallow Jet Spurt Engineering Model · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-NV001 · closes Nov 25, 2026
Technical Data Package Modernization for Information Assurance and Secure Data Exchange · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV008 · closes Nov 25, 2026
US Production of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic-Yielding Preceramic Polymers · DOW / USAF · DAF27BZ01-DV009 · closes Nov 25, 2026

Opening for submissions in the next 14 days (0)

No topics open in the next 14 days.

Closing in the next 14 days (44)

5G Signature Tracking Mitigation via Cyber Deception · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-NV028 · closes Oct 21, 2026
AI/ML for Next Generation of Missile Detection, Warning, Tracking, and Reporting · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-NV510 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Agentic AI Based Cognitive Radar for GEOINT Mission · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV033 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions · DOW / ARMY · ARM26BX06-NV012 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions · DOW / ARMY · ARM26TX06-NV003 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Architected Energy Dissipation Structures with Tunable Rigid-flexible Behaviors · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV010 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Artificial Intelligence Performance Evaluation Tool · DOW / USAF · DAF26TZ06-NV006 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Automated Combat Assessment at the Edge · DOW / USAF · DAF26TZ06-NV007 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Autonomous On Orbit Logistics and Sustainment Architecture · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-DV513 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Bio-inspired Underwater Teams · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV008 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Casualty Operations & Resource Prediction Software (CORPS) · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV027 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Compact Passive Radar · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV025 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Counter Adversial GPS Jamming · DOW / USAF · DAF26TZ06-DV008 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Cyberspace Warfare for Space · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-DV512 · closes Oct 21, 2026
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Minimally Invasive Remote Blood Collection Device for Free-Ranging Cetaceans · DOW / NAVY · DON26BZ06-DV088 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Defect Metrology and Charge Trapping Dynamics in Transfer-Doped Diamond Transistors · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-NV026 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Design of RoomTemperature THz and Infrared Sensing Devices Using Non-Toxic, Supply-Chain Secure Material Platform · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV006 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Development of Ultrafast Nonvolatile Memory Based on Sliding Ferroelectricity in Moiré Polar Homostructures · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV005 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Engineered Microstructures for Enhanced IR Aperture Performance · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-NV024 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Expeditionary Solar Refinery for Direct Synthesis of Methanol Feedstock from Water and Air · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV009 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Flightline Radio Network · DOW / USAF · DAF26BZ06-NV036 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Fuel-Flexible Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System · DOW / DARPA · DPA26TZ06-DV005 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Ground and Air Launched Drone Swarms Create a Self-Protecting Perimeter Using Autonomous AI · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-DV026 · closes Oct 21, 2026
ICU-in-a-Box: Autonomous Extracorporeal Multiple-Organ Support Therapies · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV029 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Influence Benchmarks for AI Systems · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV026 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Localization, Characterization, and Modeling of Freestream Disturbances in Hypersonic Wind Tunnels · DOW / DARPA · DPA26TZ06-DV006 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Low Noise & Low-SWaP High-Repetition Rate Mode-Locked Lasers for High-Speed Photonics · DOW / USAF · DAF26BZ06-NV034 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Low SWaP-C Tactical Awareness Payload for Proliferated, Agile Satellites (TAPPAS) for Space Domain Awareness · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-DV511 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Low-Cost Multi-Function Ku-Band RF System for Prompt Strike Weapons · DOW / USAF · DAF26BZ06-DV037 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Monolithic Graphene–CMOS Broadband (UV-LWIR) Focal Plane Arrays for target detection in low-light conditions · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV027 · closes Oct 21, 2026
New World Screwworm Networked Detection, Identification, and Surveillance System · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV024 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Noninvasive Detection and Localization of Occult Hemorrhage · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV025 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Novel Radio Frequency Sensing Technologies · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV023 · closes Oct 21, 2026
OPEN - Proliferated Low-Altitude Detection for C-sUAS · DOW / USAF · DAF26BX06-DP027 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Quantum Memory for Secure Communication · DOW / USAF · DAF26BZ06-NV035 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Resilient Integrated Photonic Transport In Denied Environments (RIPTIDE) · DOW / SOCOM · SOC26BZ06-DV006 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Scalable Hard-mask materials with Improved Etch resistance and Low Degradation for Extreme-aspect-Ratio fabrication (SHIELDER) · DOW / DARPA · DPA26TZ06-DV004 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Scalable Processing of Large Area, Oriented 2-Dimensional Polymer Films · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV007 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Smart Manufacturing · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV032 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Smart Venues and Stadiums · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV031 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Space Domain Operational Environment Assessment · DOW / USAF · DAF26TX06-NV514 · closes Oct 21, 2026
TRIAGE-X: Autonomous Casualty Triage and Treatment in Chemically Contaminated Mass Casualty Events · DOW / DARPA · DPA26BZ06-DV028 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Telecom Band Geometric Amplifier · DOW / OSD · OSW26TZ06-NV004 · closes Oct 21, 2026
Vision Language Model (VLM) for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target search and classification from Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD) · DOW / OSD · OSW26BZ06-DV034 · closes Oct 21, 2026