ERI Funding Opportunities

DOD

Solicitation: NOFOAFRLAFOSR20250006

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359762

Posted Date: June 30, 2025

Proposal Due date: September 19, 2025

This is a special Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), which will hereafter generally be referred to as “we, us, our, or AFOSR.” The Fiscal Year 2026 Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) intends to support individual early in career scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees by 01 April 2018 or later showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.

DOD

Solicitation: FA875021S7003

https://sam.gov/opp/ddcd1241880d48df842a317ca7d27830/view

Posted date: 26 June, 2025

White papers due date: 28 February 2026 by 4 PM  (EST).

This announcement is for an Open, 2 Step BAA which is open and effective until 28 February 2026.  Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only.  While white papers will be considered if received prior to 4 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 28 February 2026.

CONCISE SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT:   Seeking innovative research to develop a Composable Collaborative Planning to overcome the serial and time-intensive nature of existing planning techniques and to enable parallel planning to be performed at the operational level. This research will focus on addressing the Force Flow planning problem for Operation Plan (OPLAN) development to address critical planning needs. This research will rethink how dependencies and conflicts are discovered, tracked, and managed in order to reduce the overall planning time.. Specifically, this research seeks to: 1) Overcome global complexity problem through the investigation of dependency & assumption tracking techniques and 2) Develop a composable and collaborative planning framework to enable parallel planning across the diverse set of highly specialized teams. A key idea is to share the resources and context of the other planning stages to all other stages to allow the respective planning teams to have context of the dependencies and plan requirements both upstream and downstream.

DOD

Solicitation: W912HZ-25-BAA-01

https://sam.gov/opp/6eaa47d4a77d4cf1b97a7e20a1bbd756/view

Posted date: 26 June, 2025

Proposal Due date: December 31, 2025 11:59 pm CST

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is issuing this announcement for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL), the Environmental Laboratory (EL) and the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, and the Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) in Alexandria, Virginia. The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes.

DOD

Solicitation: N00421-25-RFPREQ-445000A-0001

https://sam.gov/opp/20c5e3d5f8d441db9c73d95b68fa4597/view

Posted date: 30 June, 2025

White papers due date: 30 September 2025 by 02:00 pm EDT.

The NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND (NAVAIR), Propulsion and Power Engineering Department is looking to solicit for white papers in response to the Government’s Statement of Objectives. For successful offerors, a Request for Proposal will be submitted, and a contract will subsequently be awarded off Broad Agency Announcement 2025 for Propulsion & Power of Naval Air Vehicles. Detailed information is provided in the NAVAIR publication “Guide to Naval Aviation Propulsion and Power Technology Development Programs for Fiscal Year 2025.” The aforementioned guide is attached to the beta.SAM announcement.

DOD

Solicitation: FA875020S7015

https://sam.gov/opp/bc17d2067b7944d2a994482405434f6a/view

Posted date: 24 June, 2025

White papers due date: 30 September 2025 by 1400 (EST)

Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only.  While white papers will be considered if received prior to 1400 Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 30 September 2025.

The overall technical objectives of this BAA are to employ existing and emerging technologies to develop and demonstrate automated, real-time signal detection, processing, exploitation, and reporting capabilities of existing and emerging Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) signals in support of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms. Technology applications include, but are not limited to: (1)  the enhancement of  ELINT signal processing software and hardware to address the increased complexity and volume of the ELINT battlespace; (2) the enhancement of  collection system efficiency for single and  multi-platform collection optimization and management; (3) the development of technology for the detection and exploitation of emerging ELINT signals and systems,(4) the enhancement of effectiveness of databases that use existing multi-source, multi-platform, real-time collection systems, and (5) the development of capabilities to improve the timeliness and accuracy of post-mission ELINT intercept processing in support of analysis enhancements.

DOD

Solicitation: FA875020S7014

https://sam.gov/opp/a8880efde5134f64a99e6aea1f06dc6b/view

Posted date: June 24, 2025

White papers due date: 30 September 2025 by 4pm (EST)

Only white papers will be accepted as initial submissions; formal proposals will be accepted by invitation only.  While white papers will be considered if received prior to 4pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 30 Sep 2025.

The Information Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research, development, and evaluation of technologies/techniques to enable closed loop sensing and sensor data exploitation in dynamic adversarial environments.  It is anticipated that future adversarial environments, in which Situational Awareness (SA) is desired, will be cognitive software controlled, geometrically diverse and heterogeneous in true/false target signature characterization.  To combat these problems future operational concepts will incorporate versatile, networked, heterogeneous, controllable ubiquitous sensing systems on autonomous/semi-autonomous platforms.  Such systems will provide information and SA at a level of abstraction considerably higher than current stovepiped systems yielding geo-registered events (e.g. detections).  Accordingly, the United States Air Force (USAF) recognizes the significant advantage of exploiting data from a number of sensing modalities.  This will include both traditional Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensors (both passive and active) and Measurement and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT) sensors across many domains to include air, space and cyber.  Given the domains of interest, both hard and soft data sources are of interest.  In this way, the UASF has an advantage, in dynamic adversarial environments, by collecting a rich multi-modality target signature collection and be able to autonomously re-configure the network of multi-modal sensors to improve such things as Detection, Tracking, and Classification (DTC) of time critical targets.

DOD

Solicitation: FA875021S7003

https://sam.gov/opp/b2f552249c6d42d380e02f3b068b017c/view

Posted date: June 24, 2025

White papers due date: 28 February 2026 by 4 PM (EST)

While white papers will be considered if received prior to 4 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 28 February 2026, the following submission dates are suggested to best align with projected funding:

FY26 by 30 September 2025 (8AM EST)

CONCISE SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT:   Seeking innovative research to develop a Composable Collaborative Planning to overcome the serial and time-intensive nature of existing planning techniques and to enable parallel planning to be performed at the operational level. This research will focus on addressing the Force Flow planning problem for Operation Plan (OPLAN) development to address critical planning needs. This research will rethink how dependencies and conflicts are discovered, tracked, and managed in order to reduce the overall planning time. Specifically, this research seeks to: 1) Overcome global complexity problem through the investigation of dependency & assumption tracking techniques and 2) Develop a composable and collaborative planning framework to enable parallel planning across the diverse set of highly specialized teams. A key idea is to share the resources and context of the other planning stages to all other stages to allow the respective planning teams to have context of the dependencies and plan requirements both upstream and downstream.