All open & upcoming SBIR/STTR topics
350 topics, sorted by close date. Source: SBIR.gov, enriched with the DoD Innovation Portal.
5G Signature Tracking Mitigation via Cyber Deception
As military and government personnel increasingly rely on commercial mobile networks, the management of digital signatures has become a critical operational concern.
AI/ML for Next Generation of Missile Detection, Warning, Tracking, and Reporting
The purpose of this topic is to address a critical need within the U.S.
Agentic AI Based Cognitive Radar for GEOINT Mission
Agentic AI enables autonomous control of expert systems for desired information gathering or completing a task.
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions
This topic will prototype and demonstrate a schema-driven Decision Management (DM) foundation plus a governed agentic AI layer that turns messy decision requests into auditable, signer-ready Decision Packages.
Agentic-AI, Schema-Driven Decision Management for Auditable Studies and Acquisition Decisions
This topic will prototype and demonstrate a schema-driven Decision Management (DM) foundation plus a governed agentic AI layer that turns messy decision requests into auditable, signer-ready Decision Packages.
Architected Energy Dissipation Structures with Tunable Rigid-flexible Behaviors
The DoW requires lightweight protection materials for a variety of applications, including personal protection, vehicle safety, and shielding sensitive electronics.
Artificial Intelligence Performance Evaluation Tool
The proposed research effort aims to address critical gaps in the evaluation and validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems within the Air Force by developing an Artificial Intelligence Performance Evaluation Tool.
Automated Combat Assessment at the Edge
Combat assessment (physical and functional) provides tactically relevant information for re-strike and re-planning.
Autonomous On Orbit Logistics and Sustainment Architecture
Space systems today are designed for single use and lack the ability to be maintained, repaired, or resupplied once deployed.
Bio-inspired Underwater Teams
Bio-inspired underwater vehicles have nearly matched the speeds and efficiencies of real fish.
Casualty Operations & Resource Prediction Software (CORPS)
The challenges underlying crisis medical response in austere and contested environments are significantly different than those underlying long-range planning or response in established theaters.
Compact Passive Radar
In contested A2/AD environments, active radar emissions act as beacons for adversary Electronic Warfare.
Counter Adversial GPS Jamming
Military and commercial missions rely heavily on the Global Positioning System (GPS), but GPS signals, due to their weak intensity and their need to travel considerable distances, are vulnerable to external interference such as jamming and spoofing.
Cyberspace Warfare for Space
The USSF’s defensive cyber operations mission is focused on the rapid integration of capabilities into the Defensive Cyber Warfare (DCW) pipeline to address unique and complex cybersecurity requirements for space systems.
DIRECT TO PHASE II: Minimally Invasive Remote Blood Collection Device for Free-Ranging Cetaceans
Navy bottlenose dolphins are valuable Fleet assets whose health and well-being are essential to sustaining mine countermeasures, port security, and object recovery missions.
Defect Metrology and Charge Trapping Dynamics in Transfer-Doped Diamond Transistors
Hydrogen-terminated (surface-channel) diamond transistors hold great promise for next-generation, high-frequency, high-power RF electronics and advanced communications due to diamond's high breakdown field and superior thermal conductivity.
Design of RoomTemperature THz and Infrared Sensing Devices Using Non-Toxic, Supply-Chain Secure Material Platform
Infrared sensing sits at an inflection point.
Development of Ultrafast Nonvolatile Memory Based on Sliding Ferroelectricity in Moiré Polar Homostructures
Twisted stacks of van der Waals (vdW) crystals can form moiré superlattices with polar domains whose dipoles are antiferroelectrically aligned and controllable by applied electric fields [1].
Engineered Microstructures for Enhanced IR Aperture Performance
The Navy has demonstrated within its laboratories that a composite ceramic exhibiting IR transparency can be produced with distinct phases, microstructural feature sizes below 100 nm in all phases, and porosity content below 0.1% on component parts as large as 0.4 inch in lateral dimension.
Expeditionary Solar Refinery for Direct Synthesis of Methanol Feedstock from Water and Air
Modern warfare tactics have demonstrated the need to shift toward small, specialized, dismounted tactical units which can operate free from the supply line.
Flightline Radio Network
Flight line operations at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) face increasing demands for more efficient, secure, and real-time communication systems to enhance aircraft maintenance, logistics, and operational performance.
Fuel-Flexible Spacecraft Electric Propulsion System
Spacecraft electric propulsion (EP) systems typically rely on noble gas fuels (xenon, krypton, argon) stored in high pressure tanks.
Ground and Air Launched Drone Swarms Create a Self-Protecting Perimeter Using Autonomous AI
Mobility Air Forces aircraft serve as the logistical backbone of the Department of War and operate as high-value assets in modern contested environments that can be significantly augmented with enhanced organic self-protection and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to maintain operational overmatch.
ICU-in-a-Box: Autonomous Extracorporeal Multiple-Organ Support Therapies
Severe hemorrhage is the number one cause of preventable combat deaths, followed by airway compromise (Eastridge, 2012), with increased artillery, thermobaric and incendiary munitions use (Remondelli et al.
Influence Benchmarks for AI Systems
This topic seeks to develop a simulated market as a test environment to characterize the latent behavioral preferences of AI systems.As warfighters increasingly engage with AI systems, particularly agents that rely on large-language models (LLMs), concern has arisen that the systems may encourage cognitive behavior in users that impart hidden biases, impair judgement, and ultimately degrade warfighting capacity.
Localization, Characterization, and Modeling of Freestream Disturbances in Hypersonic Wind Tunnels
Hypersonic ground-test facilities are critical for evaluating aerodynamic forces, aerothermodynamic heating, and boundary-layer transition (BLT) behavior on high-speed flight vehicles.
Low Noise & Low-SWaP High-Repetition Rate Mode-Locked Lasers for High-Speed Photonics
Mode-locked semiconductor lasers can support high repetition rates up to 100 GHz due to the high gain and fast gain recovery unlike in fiber lasers or doped dielectric gain medium lasers.
Low SWaP-C Tactical Awareness Payload for Proliferated, Agile Satellites (TAPPAS) for Space Domain Awareness
This D2P2 effort is to develop low Size, Weight, Power, and Cost (SWaP-C) technology for an on-board sensing payload to provide local situational awareness.
Low-Cost Multi-Function Ku-Band RF System for Prompt Strike Weapons
Current multifunction radar systems for use onboard various types of small airborne platforms are prohibitively expensive to procure at scale, and this is especially true for systems engineered for use in demanding high subsonic regimes (peak velocity greater than Mach 3 but under Mach 5).
Monolithic Graphene–CMOS Broadband (UV-LWIR) Focal Plane Arrays for target detection in low-light conditions
The Navy continues to field multiple seeker technologies to detect, identify and engage targets in multi-domain operations through obscurants. However, you cannot detect something you cannot see.
New World Screwworm Networked Detection, Identification, and Surveillance System
New World Screwworm (NWS or Cochliomyia hominivorax) larvae infest the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.
Noninvasive Detection and Localization of Occult Hemorrhage
TThe goal of this development effort is to produce a noninvasive or minimally invasive capability that enables Role 1 medical personnel (specifically, a combat medic with no surgical or pre-operative imaging expertise) to rapidly detect, localize, and characterize the rate of life-threatening, occult, or non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) that cannot be precisely identified through routine clinical assessments available in the field.
Novel Radio Frequency Sensing Technologies
Detecting and mapping deep subsurface mineral deposits typically requires localized or low-altitude operations.
OPEN - Proliferated Low-Altitude Detection for C-sUAS
This DAF focused open topic seeks C-sUAS detect options for transition into the USAF and USSF, specifically supporting AFLCMC/ES and the JIATF 401 marketplace.
Quantum Memory for Secure Communication
The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a significant challenge to traditional encryption methods, potentially compromising the security of digital communications.
Resilient Integrated Photonic Transport In Denied Environments (RIPTIDE)
Future autonomous operations will occur in contested electromagnetic environments where traditional positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) references cannot be assumed.
Scalable Hard-mask materials with Improved Etch resistance and Low Degradation for Extreme-aspect-Ratio fabrication (SHIELDER)
Next-generation defense-relevant microsystem technologies, such as 3D integrated circuits, high-density memory arrays, MEMS inertial sensors and RF filters, and integrated photonic devices, rely on the precise manufacturing of extreme high-aspect-ratio features within a chip [1-3].
Scalable Processing of Large Area, Oriented 2-Dimensional Polymer Films
2-dimensional polymers (2DPs) such as covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging class of materials which have displayed significant potential in applications ranging from catalysis, energy storage, dielectrics, nanofiltration, gas storage, and mechanically robust engineering materials.
Smart Manufacturing
The realistic near-to-mid-term serviceable addressable market for private 5G among U.S.
Smart Venues and Stadiums
The realistic near-to-mid-term serviceable addressable market for private 5G/6G-ready platforms among U.S.
Space Domain Operational Environment Assessment
With the acknowledgement of space as a warfighting domain in 2019, the U.S. Space Command was established as a geographic combatant command.
TRIAGE-X: Autonomous Casualty Triage and Treatment in Chemically Contaminated Mass Casualty Events
DARPA seeks innovative approaches to autonomous chemical, biological, radioactive, and nuclear (CBRN) triage that measurably improve casualty survival and increase the effective capacity of a medical response during CBRN disasters.
Telecom Band Geometric Amplifier
Present-day devices for amplifying telecom laser light mostly produce gain by incoherently pumping a medium (optically or electrically), or by coherently pumping a nonlinear medium with a laser.
Vision Language Model (VLM) for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) target search and classification from Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD)
Vision language models (VLMs) combine multimodal (Video, SAR and Infrared Imagery) data/imagery and generative AI models to understand and process video, image, and text.
AIR QUALITY
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CIRCULAR ECONOMY/SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
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CLEAN AND SAFE WATER
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SAFER CHEMICALS
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AI-Enabled Computed Vision Air-to-Air Refueling Performance Assessment and Automated Pilot Debrief System
Air-to-air refueling (AAR) is a critical Department of the Air Force and Department of the Navy capability enabling global mobility, long-range strike, combat airpower projection, and sustained aviation operations.
Advanced Reserve Power Source Technologies
Power source performance in terms of power and energy density is the major objective with affordability, safety, and reliability secondary objectives of Air Force Armament Directorate programs for advanced reserve power sources for weapon systems.
Agile Autonomous Technical Data Package to Path Robotic Task Specification
Here is a draft for a Direct to Phase II SBIR solicitation topic based on the technical capabilities of the data extraction and automated path-planning pipeline.
Agile Wire Harness Manipulation and Installation for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Context & BackgroundModern Department of Defense (DoD) manufacturing and depot sustainment environments increasingly depend on agile automation to scale up production and maintain rapid operational readiness.
Cleaner for the Time Domain Reflectometer Tank Level Indicator
Fouling on the TDR sensor used for TLI is a persistent problem. The TDR is necessary to provide accurate and precise readings for fuel measurement.
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Rapid Maturation
Inexpensive, highly maneuverable, commercially available unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threaten tactical forces, critical infrastructure, and installations.
Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Rapid Maturation
Inexpensive, highly maneuverable, commercially available unmanned aerial systems (UAS) threaten tactical forces, critical infrastructure, and installations.
Cyber Resiliency for Fog and Edge Computing Devices
This topic is intended for technology proven ready to move directly into a Phase II. Therefore, a Phase I award is not required.
Fire Resistant Joiner Bulkhead
Fire represents a grave hazard to Navy vessels.
Fusion of Cooperative Information Sharing for Uncrewed Air Systems (FOCISAUS)
Distributed air operations increasingly depend on timely awareness of objects, hazards, and activities beyond the field of view of any individual platform.
G-TEAD USAREUR-AF ACE 27-02: Spectrum Enabled Warfare Powered by xTech
The operational challenge on the Eastern Flank is the enablement of U.S.
High Speed, Low Temperature Hyperspectral Imager for High Enthalpy Ground Testing
AEDC requires a method to resolve temperature and emissivity across the surface of test articles.
Input-Output Unit (IOU) for Secure Processing and Routing of Hull, Mechanical, & Electrical (HM&E) and Navigation Signals
IOUs are used on all Navy DDG 51 class ships to transfer Steering Control, Machinery Control, and Damage Control signals, as well as Interior Communication Alarm and Indication, Synchro and Digital Navigation data.
Intermediate Temperature Cooling Unit
Navy ships have a chilled water system that runs throughout the ship providing cooling to electronic equipment.
Long Rod Delivery System
The lack of a non-destructive, high-precision launching method for high length-to-diameter (L/D) projectiles fundamentally degrades the fidelity of Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) data.
Low SWaP, 2-micron Fiber Amplifiers
High-power fiber lasers operating in the 2-micron regime offer critical advantages for defense, medical, and industrial applications, including eye-safer directed energy, advanced sensing, and precision materials processing.
Multiple Telemetry Site Signal Source Synchronization
Flight test missions that traverse multiple Test Ranges (e.g. hypersonic vehicles/weapons, cruise missiles, long-range weapon systems etc.) or that require different test support infrastructures (e.g.
ONR Open Topic for Low-Cost Heads Up Displays (HUDs) for Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR/AR)
ONR requests proposals for existing technology demonstration platforms, prototypes, and commercial products that provide domestically-sourced, low-cost HUDs) for first-person view (FPV) drone pilots, and augmented reality (AR) capabilities for Forward Observers (FOs) and Joint Terminal Air Controllers (JTACs).
Optimally Packaged Assembly for Laser Systems (OPALS)
The Air Force requires light weight, compactly packaged optical systems to perform critical beam control functions for airborne high energy laser systems.
Reusable Illumination System
The PF300 flash bulbs, that provide high-intensity illumination for high-speed video acquisition, are no longer in production.
Shallow Jet Spurt Engineering Model
This topic seeks the development of a computationally efficient engineering-level model to predict the formation and characteristics of the "spurt" in fluid cavity created jets.
Technical Data Package Modernization for Information Assurance and Secure Data Exchange
Background and Problem Statement: The modernization of Technical Data Packages (TDPs) is imperative to address the Air and Space Force’s operational challenges in securely managing large-scale, complex datasets associated with advanced platforms and their sustainment life cycles.
US Production of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic-Yielding Preceramic Polymers
The scaled production of C/C-UHTCs composites (UHTCMCs) for defense applications requires the manufacturing of UHTC precursors in quantities sufficient to support acquisition programs.
NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award (Parent [R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
Background The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs (also known as America's Seed Fund) are major sources of early-stage funding for U.S.
NIH Small Business Technology Transfer Grant (Parent STTR [R41/R42] Clinical Trial Optional)
Background The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs (also known as America's Seed Fund) are major sources of early-stage funding for U.S.
NIH, CDC and FDA Small Business Innovation Research Grant (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Optional)
Background The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs (also known as America's Seed Fund) are major sources of early-stage funding for U.S.
SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program (Parent SB1 Clinical Trial Optional)
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs (also known as America's Seed Fund) are major sources of early-stage funding for U.S.
Accessible and Inclusive AR/VR/MR
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Advanced Engineering Materials
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Advanced Inclusive Learning Technologies
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Advanced Manufacturing
The Advanced Manufacturing topic aims to support emerging innovations in manufacturing with the potential to stimulate the nation's manufacturing sector by improving efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability.
Advanced Materials
The Advanced Materials topic addresses the development of new and improved materials for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications.
Advanced Metrology and Sensors
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Advanced Nuclear Energy Tech
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Advanced Optical Components and Systems
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Advanced Systems for Scalable Analytics
The Advanced Systems for Scalable Analytics topic focuses on innovations needed for building systems that organize and process large and ever-increasing volumes of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to reveal actionable new insights.
Agricultural Technologies
The Agricultural Technologies topic supports innovations enabling farm production ecosystems that support the proper utilization of natural resources.
Agroforestry
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Algorithms and Applications
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Animal Biotechnology
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Aquaculture
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Artificial Intelligence
The Artificial Intelligence topic focuses on cutting-edge technologies in the field of deep learning-based AI systems and AI-based hardware.
Assistive, Enabling and Rehabilitative technologies
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Augmented Virtual and Mixed Reality
The Augmented Virtual and Mixed Reality (AR/VR/MR) topic focuses on advancing immersive technological experiences for humans grounded in research.
Autonomous Systems and Economies, and Smart Contracts
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Aviation
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Behavioral Transitions
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Bio-Inspired Technologies
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Biochemicals
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Bioinstruments and Biosensors
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Biological Technologies
The Biological Technologies topic covers a wide range of technology areas to advance engineering and science innovation across the biological spectrum.
Biomedical Technologies
The Biomedical Technologies topic aims to support the early-stage development of novel products, processes or services that will enable the delivery of high-quality, economically efficient healthcare.
Blockchain, DAGs, and Next-Gen Protocols
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Building Analytical System for Learning from Dynamic Environments
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Building and Infrastructure
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CO2 and Methane Conversion, Petrochemicals, Oil and Gas
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Carbon Sequestration
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Catalysts, Advanced Chemicals and Materials
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Cell and Tissue Engineering
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Chemical Technologies
The Chemical Technologies topic covers a wide range of technology areas of current and emerging commercial significance to many areas, including the broad chemical industry; food processing and technology; agrochemicals; chemical alternatives and organics; green chemicals; water treatment and separations; advanced catalysts and materials; and biochemicals.
Chemical and Environmental Sensing and Data
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Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Reversal
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Cloud and High-Performance Computing
The Cloud and High-Performance Computing (HPC) topic focuses on innovations that result in substantial improvements to cloud computing or high-performance computing platforms.
Coatings and Surface Modifications
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Cognitive Science-based Technologies
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Communication and Networking Technologies
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Communications, Information, and Data Storage
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Computation on Encrypted Data
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Computational Architecture
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Computer Vision Based AI Technologies
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Convergence of AI and Cloud/HPC
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Convergence with Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence
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Convergence with Internet of Things, Crowdsourcing and Crowdsensing
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Conversational AI Technologies
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Cryptography, Security, and Cybersecurity
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Cryptography, including Post-quantum Cryptography
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Cybermanufacturing
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Cybersecurity and Authentication
The Cybersecurity and Authentication topic focuses on innovations related to the security and integrity of data and data processing and the authentication of people and devices.
Data Mining, Machine Learning (Non-deep learning-based), and Reinforcement Learning
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Data Privacy and Integrity
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Data and communication
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Decision Support and Optimization
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Device Authentication
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Diagnostics
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Digital Assets
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Digital Ecosystem for the Environment
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Digital Health
The Digital Health topic aims to support the early-stage development of novel devices, components, systems, algorithms, networks, applications or services that will enable the transformation of healthcare from reactive, hospital-centered and indemnity-based to proactive, person-centered, preventive and cost-efficient.
Directed Energy
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Distributed Consensus and Fault Tolerance Mechanisms
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Distributed Ledger
The Distributed Ledger topic area covers a wide range of technology areas of current and emerging commercial significance and impact spanning all areas of distributed ledgers, including blockchains, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and related capabilities (cryptography, smart contracts, etc.).
Distributed Ledger
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Distributed Ledger Interoperability
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Distributed Ledger in Edge and Cloud Computing
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Distributed Ledger in Network Architecture and Management
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Distributed Manufacturing
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Drug Delivery Methods
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Drug Discovery
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Ecomanufacturing
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Edge Computing
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Electromagnetics
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Electronic Devices
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Electronic Materials
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Emission or Waste Reduction and the Circular Economy
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Encryption, including Homomorphic Encryption
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Energy Efficiencies and Data Technologies
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Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
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Energy Harvesting Devices and Systems
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Energy Production and Power Generation
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Energy Storage
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Energy Technologies
The Energy Technologies topic covers new energy sources and resources, power generation, energy storage and electronic systems for energy sources used in mobile technologies and off-grid applications.
Enhanced UI/UX for Immersive AR/VR/MR
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Environmental Technologies
Environmental Technologies cover a range of innovations focused on sustainability, high commercial impacts and societal and environmental benefits.
Environmental Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Development
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Environmental and Societal Impact Measurement
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Environmentally Sustainable Solutions for AR/VR/MR Design
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Ethical AI Frameworks for Advancing Education
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Farming in Underserved Communities
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Fermentation
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Financial Technologies
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Food Processing, Chemicals and Agriculture
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Food Waste Mitigation
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Food, Regenerative Agriculture, and Energy
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Fusion
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General Medical Devices
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Green Chemicals and Chemical Alternatives
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HCI to Enhance Human Cognitive Capacity
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Habitat Conservation, Adaptation and Restoration
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Harvesting Complex Systems
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Health and Biomedical informatics
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Health in Underserved Communities
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Health in Underserved Communities
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Healthcare Workflow, Economics and Delivery
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Human Assistive Technologies and Bio-related Robotics
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Human viability and sustainability
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Human-Centric AR/VR/MR Analytics for Collaboration
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Human-Computer Interaction
The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) topic aims to bridge the gap between research-based innovation and practical applications by catalyzing high-risk advancements rooted in research.
Human-Machine Interfaces and Control/Architecture
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Human-to-Technology Interfaces and Decentralized Applications (dApps)
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Hydrogen Technologies
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Hypersonic
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Immersive AR/VR/MR Fostering Shared Experiences
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Implantables or Procedures
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Improved Resilience through Interspecies Interchange
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In space services and production
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In-memory Processing
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Infrastructure and Flow
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Instrumentation and Hardware Systems
The Instrumentation and Hardware Systems topic addresses the research and development of new and improved instrumentation and related systems for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications.
Instrumentation or Hardware Systems for Actuation, Control, and Manipulation
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Instrumentation or Hardware Systems for Detection and Characterization
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Instrumentation or Hardware Systems for Imaging
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Integrated Circuit Design
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Interconnects
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Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving field that involves the interconnection and interaction of smart objects (objects or devices with embedded sensors, onboard data processing capability, and a means of communication) to provide automated services that would otherwise not be possible.
IoT Communications
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IoT Integrated Systems
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IoT Sensors and Actuators
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Knowledge and Data Management Technologies
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Language-Based AI Technologies
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Launch vehicles and propulsion
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Learning and Cognition Technologies
Innovative approaches to learning and cognition development leverage groundbreaking technological advancements rooted in research.
Life Science Research Tools
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Lighting and Displays
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Marine
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Marketplaces for Data and Models
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Materials and Devices for Power Electronics
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Materials and Devices for Thermal Management
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Materials for Biomedical Applications
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Materials, Processes, Prototyping Methods or Enablers
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Medical Devices
The Medical Devices topic aims to develop novel medical device platforms, introduce innovative medical technologies or translate emerging scientific principles into health practice.
Medical Diagnostics and Devices
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Medical Imaging
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Metals and Ceramics
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Microbiome and Microbial Diversity
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Microelectronics Packaging and Systems Integration
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Middleware
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Mobility
The Mobility topic encourages novel innovations in the land, air, and sea-based movement of goods and people that improve sustainability and resiliency.
Modeling and Simulation
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Monitoring Devices
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Monitoring or Instrumentation
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Nanotechnology
The Nanotechnology topic addresses the creation and manipulation of functional materials, devices and systems with novel properties that are achieved through the control of matter at a submicroscopic scale (from a fraction of nanometer to about 100 nanometers).
Nanotechnology
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Natural Resources and Critical Minerals
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Nature-based Solutions
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Network and Device Security
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Networked Sensors and Sensing
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Networking
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Neuroadaptive Systems
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Novel AI Hardware Technologies (e.g.: Neuromorphic Computing, High-performance Technologies for AI, Smart and Secure Edge Devices, etc.)
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Novel Advanced Materials-based Sensors
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Novel Power and Thermal Management Sensors
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Novel Semiconductor-based Sensors
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Novel Visualization Technologies
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Other Advanced Materials Technologies
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Other Agricultural Technologies
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Other Augmented Virtual and Mixed Reality Technologies
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Other Biological Technologies
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Other Biomedical Technologies
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Other Chemical Technologies
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Other Cloud and High-Performance Computing Technologies
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Other Cybersecurity and Authentication Technologies
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Other Digital Health Technologies
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Other Distributed Ledger Technologies
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Other Energy Technologies
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Other Environmental Technologies
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Other Human-Computer Interaction Technologies
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Other Instrumentation or Hardware Systems Technologies
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Other IoT Technologies
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Other Learning and Cognition Technologies
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Other Manufacturing Technologies
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Other Mobility Topics
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Other Novel Technologies
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Other Novel Technologies
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Other Pharmaceutical Technologies
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Other Photonics Technologies
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Other Power Management Technologies
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Other Quantum Information Technologies
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Other Robotics Technologies
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Other Semiconductor Technologies
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Other Space-related Technologies
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Other Topics
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Other Topics
For projects that do not seem to fit into one of the other technology topic areas, but still meet the NSF SBIR/STTR goals of supporting research and development of deep technology with commercial viability and the potential to benefit society, please pick Other Topics and subtopic OT1.
Other Wireless Technologies
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Performance Monitoring
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Personal Authentication
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Personal Transportation
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Pharmaceutical Technologies
The Pharmaceutical Technologies topic covers a wide range of technology areas that advance the discovery, formulation, and manufacture of novel drugs, moieties, compounds, products, processes, platforms or services that will improve the selection, quality or price of pharmaceutical and biologic therapies.
Pharmaceutical and Biologic Manufacturing
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Photonic Devices
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Photonic Energy Conversion
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Photonic Materials
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Photonic Metamaterials and Plasmonics
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Photonics
The Photonics topic addresses the research and development of new materials, devices, components, and systems that have the potential for revolutionary change in the optics and photonics industries.
Physical, Mental and Behavioral Health
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Plant Biotechnology
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Polyculture Systems
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Power Electronics Circuits and Control Systems
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Power Management
The Power Management topic address the development of novel technologies that enable new power and thermal management solutions.
Power Management Infrastructure and Smart Grid Systems
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Precision Agriculture
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Processing and Metrology Technology
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Processing on Encrypted Data
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Processor Architecture and Design
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Quantum Algorithms
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Quantum Communications
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Quantum Computing
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Quantum Device Manufacturing
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Quantum Information Technologies
This topic focuses on innovations in information and communications technologies that rely fundamentally on quantum mechanical properties and interactions.
Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics
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Quantum Sensing and Metrology
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Quantum Simulation
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Rehabilitation
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Renewable Energy Generation & Storage
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Research-based Design for Behavioral Health
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Resilience and Resource Management
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Resiliency and Sustainability
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Resilient Supply & Distribution
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Robotic Applications
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Robotics
The Robotics topic covers robot intelligence and experiential learning, particularly in the areas of high-performance processors or hardware that provides situational awareness and improved artificial intelligence.
Robotics in Agile Manufacturing, and Co-Robots
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Satellite technology
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Scalability Solutions and Accumulators
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Secure Machine-to-Machine Communication
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Secure and Trusted Computing
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Security of Cloud and High Performance Computing (HPC) Platforms
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Semiconductors
The Semiconductors topic addresses the research and development of new designs, materials, devices and manufacturing systems that have the potential for impactful change in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry.
Separations and Water Treatment
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Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits
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Smart Integrated Systems
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Social and Behavioral Science Based Environmental Technologies
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Software Technologies for Scalable Analytical Systems
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Space
The Space topic seeks transformative technologies to create solutions for sustainable space exploration, habitation or industrialization that could also have a positive impact on human lives.
Space Transportation and Access
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Spaceflight infrastructure
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Structural and Infrastructural Materials
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Sustainable AI Technologies for Low Resource Environments
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Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing
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Sustainable Community Systems
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Sustainable Education Models for Future Generations
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Sustainable HCI Technologies
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Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering
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Systems for Thermal Management
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Technologies for Trustworthy AI (safe, fair, transparent, privacy-preserving, explainable, and/or secure)
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Telecommunications Technologies
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Tools for Critical Information Analysis to Broaden Engagement
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Trusted Identity and Identity Management
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Underground or Underwater Robotics for Low-Visibility, Poor-Connectivity or Hidden Topography
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Water Treatment, Resilience, and Sanitation
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Wearables and External Sensors
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Wide Bandgap Power Devices and Materials
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Wireless Devices and Components
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Wireless Systems
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Wireless Technologies
The Wireless topic involves next-generation wireless communication technologies requiring systems with high data rates, low costs and that support a wide variety of applications and services while maintaining full mobility, minimum latency, and long battery life.
Women's Health
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Women's Health
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ARPA-H Lineage Topic
he purpose of this topic supports the advancement, commercialization, and translation of technologies that originated from ARPA-H funded efforts.
Breaking Ground: The First Curative, Durable, Non-Surgical Therapy for Endometriosis
The purpose of this topic aims to develop treatments for endometriosis that are non-surgical.
Development of an annual test to inform women about their future fertility
Development of an annual test to inform women about their future fertility - The purpose of this topic is to discover new biomarkers that provide women with actionable data for fertility planning.
Rapid Comprehensive Diagnostic Test for Multi-System Autoimmune Disease
The purpose of this topic is to spur the development of novel, rapid diagnostic assays for multi-system autoimmune disease, which represents an unmet healthcare need.
Universal Platform for Living Adaptive Toxin-removal (UNI-PLAT)
The purpose of this topic area is to catalyze the development of a universal, “plug-and-play” synthetic biology platform that enables next-generation microbial chassis capable of performing a broad array of programmable functions.
Versatile Bioadhesives
The purpose of this topic is to develop next-generation bioadhesive platforms that can safely and reliably seal, bond, and repair a wide range of tissues in challenging clinical conditions, including wet, bloody, and mechanically dynamic environments.
Virtual Human Brain for the Development of Neurosurgical Robotics
The purpose of this topic aims to take a first step toward AI-assisted intracranial microsurgery by creating a high-resolution, physically and anatomically accurate virtual human brain.