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Open Topic for Counter Unmanned Air Systems (C-UAS) is sponsored by Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) & Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
The Department of the Navy is seeking innovative solutions for enhancing existing prototypes or concepts to improve Counter-Unmanned Air Systems (C-UAS) operations and demonstrate novel, highly effective, and scalable capabilities to counter the rapidly proliferating threat of hostile UAS.
This includes low-SWaP passive acoustic sensors or sensor-fusion approaches for earlier warning, directional cueing, and compact sensor evidence from mobile or platform-mounted sensing nodes. The program emphasizes the need for solutions that can detect, track, identify, and neutralize single and multiple UAS threats in complex operational environments.
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Open Topic for Counter Unmanned Air Systems (C-UAS) is funded by Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) & Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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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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Read articleOn June 3, the Department of the Navy pre-released FY26 Release 3 SBIR/STTR — 12 conventional BAA topics and a Counter-Unmanned Air Systems Commercial Solutions Opening. Topics span adaptive sensor management, anomalous behavior detection, satellite imagery optimization, real-time zero-trust data for combat systems, and gun weapon systems modernization. The proposal window runs June 24 to July 22, 2026. The technical questions cutoff is June 23. NAVAIR and NAVSEA are hosting a Counter-UAS webinar on June 16. Here is what the topic mix actually signals about Navy priorities and how small businesses should position.
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