Air Force -- Research Lab grants

Air Force -- Research Lab (DOD-AFRL) currently lists 8 open federal funding opportunities on Grants.gov and 1 forecasted.

Open opportunities

• CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
  Open FA238424S2334 · closes September 30, 2027
• CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical Areas
  Open FA238424S2335 · closes September 30, 2027
• FOUNDATIONS OF TRUSTED SYSTEMS
  Open FA875025S7001 · closes December 5, 2028
• Coordinating Austere Nodes through Virtualization and Analysis of Streams (CANVAS)
  Open FA875024S7003 · closes May 22, 2029
• Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments
  Open RDK-RAD-FOA-2024 · closes July 18, 2029
• Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
  Open FA875024S7006 · closes September 9, 2029
• Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER)
  Open FA2391-23-S-2403
• Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and Sustaining
  Open FA238424S2233

Forecasted

• STARBASE Wright Patt
  Forecasted FOA-AFRL-PZLDA-2021-0001

Recently closed

• GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING AND EXPLOITATION (GeoPEX)
  Closed FA875021S7006 · closed September 30, 2026
• Defense Production Act Title III Expansion of Domestic Production Capability and Capacity
  Closed FA8650-19-S-5010 · closed July 12, 2026
• Collaboration for Innovative Research on Aircraft Structure (CIRAS)
  Archived FA865021S2205 · closed May 11, 2026
• Airman Readiness Medical Research (ARMR) Hybrid BAA
  Archived FA8650-20-S-6008 · closed May 1, 2025

Assistance Listings with funding history

• 12.800 · Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program
  $1.4B obligated FY2025–FY2027 · 2,256 awards · 15 open
• 12.777 · Defense Production Act Title III (DPA Title III)
  $936.2M obligated FY2024–FY2026 · 95 awards
• 12.910 · Research and Technology Development
  $411M obligated FY2025–FY2027 · 401 awards · 4 open