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DURIP is the quiet infrastructure grant behind a large share of university AI research that DoD later builds on, and it is frequently overlooked because it funds equipment rather than people.
Under opportunity W911NF26S0095, the FY2027 competition provides funds for accredited U.S. institutions of higher education to acquire major research equipment and instrumentation supporting defense-relevant research and the education of scientists and engineers.
For AI groups the relevant use is direct: GPU and accelerator clusters, high-performance computing and storage for large model training, robotic platforms and manipulators, sensor and perception rigs, autonomous ground and air testbeds, and instrumented environments for human-machine teaming experiments.
Awards are one year and range from $50,000 to $3,000,000 against roughly $28 million in total FY2027 funding, which is about $6 million below the FY2026 level - a tightening that makes the fit between the requested instrument and an existing DoD-relevant research portfolio more decisive than in past cycles.
The structural point applicants often miss is that DURIP is not a standalone equipment purchase program: proposals are evaluated on how the instrumentation enables defense-relevant research, so the strongest submissions are anchored to active or planned ARO, ONR or AFOSR research and are written by PIs with a visible track record in the sponsoring service's portfolio.
Eligibility is narrower than most DoD basic research announcements - accredited U.S. institutions of higher education with degree-granting programs in science, mathematics or engineering, explicitly excluding for-profit educational institutions, with University Affiliated Research Centers also permitted to apply.
There is no cost-share requirement, but institutional commitment to house, maintain and staff the instrument is a practical evaluation factor. Full proposals are due November 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM Eastern, and because the three service research offices issue parallel solicitations under the same program, applicants should read the specific service announcement matching their research area rather than a generic DURIP summary.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants are accredited U.S. institutions of higher education with degree-granting programs in science, mathematics and/or engineering, explicitly excluding for-profit educational institutions. University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) may also apply. Foreign institutions, industry, nonprofits and federal laboratories are not eligible to apply directly. The opportunity number is W911NF26S0095, issued through Department of the Army - Materiel Command on behalf of the Department of War, with parallel solicitations released by the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research and Air Force Office of Scientific Research; applicants should submit to the service research office whose portfolio matches their research area. Awards are one-year instrumentation grants ranging from $50,000 to $3,000,000, with approximately $28,000,000 in total FY2027 program funding. Funds may be used only for the acquisition of major research equipment and instrumentation - including high-performance computing and GPU clusters, robotic and autonomous system testbeds, sensing and perception hardware, and instrumented experimental facilities - that improves the institution's capability to conduct defense-relevant research and educate scientists and engineers. Proposals are evaluated on the defense relevance of the research the instrument enables, so submissions should be tied to existing or planned DoD-supported research programs and to a PI record in the sponsoring service's research area. Full proposals are due no later than November 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows individual one-year awards range from an award floor of $50,000 to an award ceiling of $3,000,000, against approximately $28,000,000 in total program funding for FY2027 - roughly $6 million less than the FY2026 estimate. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for FY2027 Department of War Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) for Acquisition of AI, GPU Computing and Autonomy Research Instrumentation are due November 6, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
FY2027 Department of War Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) for Acquisition of AI, GPU Computing and Autonomy Research Instrumentation is funded by U.S. Department of War (formerly Department of Defense), administered by the Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research and Air Force Office of Scientific Research; opportunity issued through Army Contracting Command. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
The ONR Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (N00014-25-S-B001) is the Office of Naval Research's primary mechanism for soliciting research proposals across all naval science and technology priority areas. The BAA accepts proposals on a rolling basis through September 30, 2026 and covers ONR's full spectrum of research interests with particular emphasis on AI-related topics including autonomous maritime systems, human-machine teaming, machine learning for sensor fusion, cooperative autonomous swarm technology, undersea autonomy, and AI-enabled decision superiority. Proposals can be funded through multiple mechanisms including individual investigator grants, the Young Investigator Program (~$510K over 3 years for early-career faculty), and Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards ($1.5M/year for 3-5 years for research teams). ONR recommends contacting relevant program officers before submitting to discuss alignment with current research priorities. The BAA supports basic research (6.1), applied research (6.2), and advanced technology development (6.3) across the full range of naval-relevant science and engineering disciplines.
PRIMED-AI is a new NIH Common Fund programme, Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data, which combines medical imaging with other health data to build AI-powered clinical decision support tools for personalised medicine. This opportunity, RFA-RM-27-014, funds the programme's Validation Center: a dedicated hub that independently evaluates and characterises the AI-enabled, image-based multimodal clinical decision support tools developed elsewhere in the consortium. The structural logic matters for applicants. NIH has separated tool-building from tool-validation and is paying separately for the second, which signals institutional recognition that self-reported performance claims from developing teams are not sufficient evidence for clinical AI. The Center's remit covers verification, validation, interoperability and uncertainty quantification, so the deliverable is a reproducible evaluation capability rather than a set of papers. It operates as a U54 cooperative agreement, meaning NIH staff are substantively involved and the Center must work in concert with the PRIMED-AI Logistics Center and the Data-to-Model and Model-to-Clinic award recipients. The RFA was released on 30 June 2026 with applications due 2 October 2026. For academic groups that have built credible AI evaluation methodology, particularly in radiology, imaging informatics or biostatistics, this is an unusually direct route to becoming the reference evaluator for a major federal AI health programme, and the position carries influence over how clinical AI performance gets measured well beyond the life of the award.
RFA-RM-27-015 funds a single Logistics Center as the coordinating hub of the NIH Common Fund's PRIMED-AI program, Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data. The award is a cooperative agreement, meaning substantial NIH scientific and programmatic involvement is built in rather than incidental, and it is administered by NIBIB on behalf of the Common Fund. The Center operates through three integrated cores: Administration, which runs the steering committees and develops consortium policies; Evaluation, which assesses progress across the funded portfolio; and Outreach, which maintains a web portal for sharing AI-based clinical decision support tools and facilitates engagement between researchers, clinicians and patient communities. The strategic point for applicants is that this is the only coordinating award in a multi-award program whose other components, the Data-to-Model Academic-Industrial Partnerships, Model-to-Clinic and Multi-use Frameworks Playbook RFAs, are separately competed and separately funded. The Logistics Center therefore does not generate its own AI models; it is scored on its capacity to run a consortium, set data and tool-sharing policy, and build infrastructure that makes other teams' clinical decision support tools discoverable and reusable. Applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of the applicant organization on the date specified for the relevant review cycle, with an earliest project start date of 2 October 2026 and a maximum project period of five years.
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