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The Air Force Research Laboratory's Multi-Spectral Sensing Technologies R&D (MuSTeR) Broad Agency Announcement funds innovative research and development in advanced radio frequency (RF) and electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensing technologies, with awards ranging from $100,000 to $10 million.
The program supports AI- and machine-learning-enabled sensing, sensor fusion, and automated processing to enhance detection, tracking, and situational awareness for national security and autonomous defense systems. Applicants pursue advances in multi-spectral sensor hardware, algorithms, and AI-driven data exploitation.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U.S. universities, research institutions, nonprofit research organizations, small businesses, and defense contractors conducting RF and EO/IR sensing and AI/ML sensor fusion research. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards ranging from $100,000 to $10 million for innovative sensing technology research and development. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
AFRL Multi-Spectral Sensing Technologies R&D (MuSTeR) Broad Agency Announcement for AI-Enabled RF and EO/IR Sensing and Sensor Fusion is funded by U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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AFRL released an updated Broad Agency Announcement on 1 July 2026 titled Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Distributed Command and Control, aimed at the problem of applying AI to Department of the Air Force and Joint Force command and control across strategic, operational, and tactical levels. The stated goal is enabling decision makers to assess the battlespace effectively, rapidly explore, create, and select the best plan, and direct and monitor forces at pace and scale in a distributed setting - which is to say the target is decision-support and planning AI rather than perception or platform autonomy. Technical areas span federated AI deployment across distributed nodes, software-defined command and control, collaborative autonomy, AI-assisted battle management, and the orchestration of AI at pace and scale. One technical area is distinctive and worth flagging for proposers: the BAA explicitly calls out adversary AI considerations in planning and execution, meaning research on how an opponent's AI systems shape friendly planning is in scope, not just friendly-side capability. The distributed and collaborative C2 emphasis - operations anywhere and anyplace - reflects the Air Force's move away from fixed air operations centers toward disaggregated command structures resilient to attack. This is a long-horizon, open BAA rather than a single-deadline competition: the announcement is scheduled to close on 30 August 2028, and for best funding consideration in FY28 white papers are due by 15 March 2027. AFRL BAAs of this type operate in two steps, with white papers submitted first and formal proposals accepted by invitation only, so the white paper is the real gate. AFRL did not publish a funding ceiling in the announcement summary; applicants should verify award structure against the full BAA on SAM.gov.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Multi-Spectrum Defensive Electronic Warfare (MSDEW) Advanced Research Announcement funds development of next-generation electronic warfare, multi-spectral sensor fusion, and AI-enabled autonomous defensive systems that protect aircraft and platforms across contested electromagnetic environments. Individual awards range from $20 million to $100 million, with rolling submissions open through July 13, 2027, supporting adaptive machine-learning-driven threat detection, countermeasures, and autonomous operations.
The NEH Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence program funds the creation of university-based humanities research centers focused on the ethical, legal, and societal implications of artificial intelligence. Funded centers undertake interdisciplinary humanities-led research that brings ethics, law, history, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, literature, linguistics, and cultural studies to bear on questions raised by AI systems. Topics include responsible AI governance frameworks, AI and civil rights, AI and labor, cultural impact of generative AI, AI and creative authorship, philosophical foundations of machine reasoning, history of AI thought, and humanistic evaluation of AI safety and alignment. Centers are expected to convene researchers, train new humanities scholars in AI, host public-facing programming, and produce publications and translational tools that inform policy and public understanding. Strong fit for universities seeking to launch sustained interdisciplinary AI humanities research programs in partnership with computer science and other STEM departments.
NSF SaTC 2.0 (Security Privacy and Trust in Cyberspace) is the largest open solicitation for university-led cybersecurity research in the federal portfolio now expanded with AI security as an explicit priority area. The 2.0 reboot added generative AI security open-source software security quantum computing security and supply chain security as topics of interest addressing the bidirectional role of AI as both a cybersecurity threat and a defensive tool. Research awards support adversarial machine learning and attacks on AI systems AI weaponization against people information and systems privacy-preserving machine learning and responsible AI use for detecting and responding to cyber threats. The program funds three award types: Research awards up to $1.2M for four years Education awards up to $500K for three years and Seedling awards up to $300K for two years through Dear Colleague Letters. Proposals are accepted on a recurring annual basis with two windows per year. This is distinct from NSF CyberAICorps which focuses on scholarship and workforce development and from NSF AIMing which focuses on AI formal methods and mathematical reasoning.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate's Geospatial Intelligence Processing and Exploitation (GeoPEX) Broad Agency Announcement, FA8750-21-S-7006, is an open two-step BAA soliciting white papers for research, development, integration, test, and evaluation of technologies and techniques to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in all its forms and from whatever source, including imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial data. Explicit focus areas include AI/ML techniques for full-spectrum GEOINT, multi-INT data fusion, cloud-based high-performance computing for geospatial analytics, photogrammetry, computer vision for overhead imagery, automated target recognition, change detection, multi-modal foundation models for geospatial data, and edge AI for tactical reconnaissance. The BAA is open and effective until 30 September 2026 with rolling white paper submission; only white papers are accepted as initial submissions and formal proposals are accepted by invitation only. Strong fit for AI and computer vision performers building geospatial analytics, foundation models, or autonomous reconnaissance tools for Air Force, intelligence community, and combatant command users.
FA955026S0003 posted September 8 with full proposals due December 4, 2026 — but a five-page white paper is required by October 9, questions close September 17, and the PhD window admits degrees earned after April 1, 2019 only. At $450,000 over three years with no collaborators permitted, this is the most restrictive of the three service early-career programs and the only one with an LPS quantum carve-out.
Read articleAFOSR's open Broad Agency Announcement — the single front door to Air Force basic research funding — closed on March 23, 2026 for mandatory review under Executive Order 14332, and proposals submitted in its final week must be resubmitted to a replacement that has no posted date. Meanwhile NRL's Long Range BAA takes white papers only through September 30, and the Air Force's new $99 million command-and-control BAA runs to 2028 with a March 15, 2027 white paper date for FY28 money. A field guide to the rolling-solicitation channel while it is in flux.
Read articleTitle III of the Defense Production Act lets the Pentagon hand non-dilutive capital to companies that expand domestic production of defense-critical materials and manufacturing — through a white-paper-first pathway run by the Air Force Research Laboratory (FA8650-19-S-5010) rather than a conventional grant competition. But the core DPA authorities sunset September 30, 2026 absent reauthorization, and the standing white-paper window has moved in and out of suspension. Here is how the Title III mechanism actually works, why it rewards companies that lead with a supply-chain vulnerability, and how to position before the authority cliff.
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