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DoD Annual SBIR 24.4 / STTR 24.D

October 03, 2023 - March 31, 2025

*Annual BAAs/CSOs have topics released throughout the year with varying open and close dates. Please refer to each topic/announcement document under the Annual BAAs/CSOs for more information.*
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The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) oversees the Department of Defense (DoD) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. 

These competitive programs are Congressionally authorized set-asides established to encourage domestic small businesses to engage in research and development with the potential for commercialization. The SBIR/STTR programs support scientific excellence and technological innovation through the investment of Federal research funds in critical American priorities to build a strong national economy and accelerate capabilities to the warfighter. ​


​​OUSD(R&E) provides the Office of the Secretary of Defense a point of contact for Congress, the Small Business Administration (SBA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the interagency SBIR/STTR community. Our organization also seeks technology partnership opportunities with the DoD and other Federal agencies. 

CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREAS
Each DoD Component develops SBIR and STTR topics that are mission-oriented to their programs, however topics generally align with the OUSD(R&E) CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY AREAS. Each critical technology area is led by a Principal Director (PD) within OUSD(R&E), who is responsible for unifying and advancing the Department's investments and capabilities in that area. This includes:
 
  • Establishing a DoD-wide, mission-focused roadmap to chart the path to deliver the technical capabilities needed by our warfighters
  • Assessing the range of activities in their technical area, including what is occurring in DoD, other executive branch agencies, the commercial world, academia, and other countries
  • Leading independent technical analyses
  • Conducting engagement and outreach across the community.

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Biotechnology
Biotechnology
Biotechnology is an emerging engineering discipline that uses living systems to produce a wide range of technologies and capabilities.
Quantum Science
Quantum Science
Quantum Science is the study of physical properties at small, even atomic, scales. Defense applications include atomic clocks, quantum sensors, quantum computing, and quantum networks. Quantum science promises to enable leap-ahead capabilities.
FutureG
FutureG
Future Generation Wireless Technology (FutureG) is a suite of emerging wireless network technologies enabled by the DoD and commercial industry cooperation to enable military operations and ensure a free and open internet.
Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
Advanced materials explore innovative new materials and novel manufacturing techniques that can dramatically improve many of the Department's capabilities.
Trusted AI and Autonomy
Trusted AI and Autonomy
Artificial Intelligence (Al) is the software engineering discipline of expanding capabilities of software applications to perform tasks that currently require human intelligence. Autonomy is the engineering discipline that expands robots' abilities to perform tasks while limiting the need for human interaction.
Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems
Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems
Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems technology encompasses the capability to communicate, provide real-time dissemination of information across the Department, and effective command and control in a contested electromagnetic environment.
Microelectronics
Microelectronics
Microelectronics are circuits and components that serve as the "brain" to human-made electronic functional systems.
Space Technology
Space Technology
Space technologies include space flight, Space communication and other technologies needed to maintain space operations.
Renewable Energy Generation and Storage
Renewable Energy Generation and Storage
Renewable energy generation and storage includes solar wind, bio-based and geothermal technologies, advanced energy storage, electronic engines, and power grid integration.
Advanced Computing and Software
Advanced Computing and Software
Advanced computing and software technologies include supercomputing, cloud computing, data storage, computing architectures, and data processing.
Human-Machine Interface
Human-Machine Interfaces
Human-Machine Interface refers to technologies related to human-machine teaming and augmented and virtual reality. Rapid advancements in this technology will have a multitude of benefits for our service members.
Directed Energy
Directed Energy
Directed Energy Weapons utilize lasers, high power microwaves, and high energy particle beams to produce precision disruption, damage, or destruction of military targets at range.
Hypersonics
Hypersonics
Hypersonic systems fly within the atmosphere for significant portions of their flight at or above 5 times the speed of sound, or approximately 3700 miles per hour.
Integrated Sensing and Cyber
Integrated Sensing and Cyber
To provide advantage for the joint force in highly contested environments, the Department must develop wideband sensors to operate at the intersection of cyber space, electronic warfare, radar, and communications.
Biotechnology
Quantum Science
FutureG
Advanced Materials
Trusted AI and Autonomy
Integrated Network Systems-of-Systems
Microelectronics
Space Technology
Renewable Energy Generation and Storage
Advanced Computing and Software
Human-Machine Interface
Directed Energy
Hypersonics
Integrated Sensing and Cyber