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The Army Applications Lab's DevX Autonomy open call seeks commercial autonomous and unmanned system solutions that can address Army capability gaps in maneuver, sustainment, and force protection. The solicitation accepts proposals on a rolling monthly basis through August 31, 2026, and is targeted at non-traditional defense vendors with autonomy software, AI perception systems, and unmanned ground or aerial platforms.
AAL provides early access to Army end users for problem refinement, prototype evaluation, and transition planning. Awards are structured as Other Transaction Agreements, with awards typically between $500K and $2M and a pathway to follow-on Army programs of record. AAL is part of the U.S. Army Futures Command innovation portfolio.
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Search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U.S. small businesses, mid-tier technology companies, startups, universities, and non-traditional defense performers. Strong preference for commercial dual-use technologies that can be adapted to Army use cases. Performers must meet supply-chain security and OT eligibility requirements. Rolling monthly submission deadlines through August 31, 2026. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards typically range from $500,000 to $2,000,000 per performer, with rolling monthly submission cutoffs through August 31, 2026. Successful prototypes can transition to production contracts. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for Army Applications Lab DevX Autonomy Open Call for Innovative Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Solutions are due August 31, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Army Applications Lab DevX Autonomy Open Call for Innovative Autonomous and Unmanned Systems Solutions is funded by Army Applications Lab (AAL), U.S. Army Futures Command. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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DARPA's SAFRON (Safe and Assured Foundation Robots for Open Environments) program addresses safety and assurance challenges for foundation-model-enabled robots operating in open-world environments. It focuses on mitigating risks such as hallucination, false confidence in reasoning, and manipulation via jailbreaking that could prevent successful task execution. Research targets formal verification, runtime monitors, uncertainty-aware policies, and red-teaming for foundation-model robotic systems that take natural language commands in unstructured environments. Initial solicitation DARPA-EA-24-01-05 closed January 2025; follow-on Exploration Announcement DARPA-EA-25-02 continues the program. SAFRON outputs are intended to enable assured deployment of LLM/VLM-driven robots in defense and dual-use civilian settings.
The Air Force AFWERX SBIR program is soliciting proposals under topic DAF26BZ03-DV020 to develop an AI-driven humanoid robotic fleet management platform that coordinates teams of humanoid maintenance robots performing depot, flightline, and base sustainment tasks. The topic targets the orchestration layer above individual humanoid platforms, including AI task allocation, fleet-level autonomy, predictive maintenance integration, human-robot teaming interfaces, and safety oversight. Awards are made under the AFWERX Open Topic SBIR process with typical Phase II ceilings of approximately $2 million and clear pathways to operational transition through AFWERX SBIR Phase III contracts. Submissions close July 22, 2026.
The Department of the Navy's NAVAIR and NAVSEA divisions are soliciting Phase I SBIR proposals under topic DON26BX03-NP002 for Counter-Unmanned Air Systems (C-UAS) technologies that detect, track, identify, and neutralize hostile drones and drone swarms threatening naval and shore-based assets. Priority AI capabilities include multi-sensor track fusion, RF/EO/IR classification, swarm intent prediction, and autonomous mitigation effector cueing. Phase I awards are approximately $315,000, with follow-on Phase II awards up to $1.8M and direct paths to operational deployment through Navy programs of record. The topic is part of the broader DoD push to scale counter-drone capability in response to growing UAV threats observed in recent conflicts. Submissions close July 22, 2026.
The Department of the Navy pre-released FY26 Release 3 SBIR/STTR on June 3, 2026 — 12 BAA topics and one Commercial Solutions Opening for Counter-Unmanned Air Systems. Topics span adaptive sensor management, anomalous behavior detection, satellite imagery optimization, real-time zero-trust data for combat systems, and gun weapon systems modernization. Technical questions cut off June 23. Proposals open June 24 and close July 22. NAVAIR and NAVSEA co-host a Counter-UAS webinar June 16. Phase I funding tops out at $315,000. The CSO open topic for AI-powered drone defense is the structural news: it's the first time NAVAIR has used a CSO vehicle to fund counter-drone work outside the conventional Phase I/II structure, and it changes how small businesses can engage with the Navy's most urgent capability gap.
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