Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program
Funding history
Awards made under this listing across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $577.2M
- FY2026 obligated
- $818.8M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 2,256
Top recipients: National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, Flextech Alliance, Inc., Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Cornell University
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026
Open opportunities under this listing
- Fiscal Year 2027 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
- Air Force Fiscal Year 2027 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
- US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Indo-Pacific Fundamental Research Collaboration Opportunities
- CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas
- CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical Areas
- FOUNDATIONS OF TRUSTED SYSTEMS
- Coordinating Austere Nodes through Virtualization and Analysis of Streams (CANVAS)
- Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments
- Air Force Basic Research Sciences Conference and Workshop Support
- Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
- Pioneering Aerospace Capabilities, Engineering and Research (PACER)
- Continuing Human Enabling Enhancing Restoring and Sustaining
- Research Interests of the United States Air Force Academy (formerly USAFA-BAA-2021)
- Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Forecasted
- DIRECTED ENERGY TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTATION RESEARCH ADVANCED RESEARCH ANNOUCEMENT (DETER ARA)
- STARBASE Wright Patt
Recently closed
- Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
- Air Delivered Effects
- GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING AND EXPLOITATION (GeoPEX)
- Defense Production Act Title III Expansion of Domestic Production Capability and Capacity
- Collaboration for Innovative Research on Aircraft Structure (CIRAS)
- Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Air Force Defense Research Sciences Conference and Workshop Support
- Air Force Fiscal Year 2026 Young Investigator Program (YIP)
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
- Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- University Day
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 INnovations in Qubit Science for Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing (INQS) Program
- Airman Readiness Medical Research (ARMR) Hybrid BAA
- Fiscal Year 2026 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
- AFRL FY25 Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control (CODAC) UNIVERSITY CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
- Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Directors' Research Initiative (DRI)
- Air Superiority Technology Broad Agency Announcement
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