NDEP STEM Open NFO
Overview
What you need to judge this in 30 seconds
This is an open NFO, applicants may apply to this posting or subsequent amendments for specific STEM activities. See the Related Documents tab for the full NFO, and amendments announcing new funding opportunities. The Department of War (DoW) Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW(R&E)) seeks innovative applications on mechanisms to implement and research the effect
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Education
- Technology
- Needs verification
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
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Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $100K ~ $10M
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- Needs verification
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- None (fully funded)
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
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Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
Eligible applicants include: industry, non-profit institutions, institutions of higher education, state and/or local educational agencies, or consortia of such institutions and/or industry. Foreign entities will not be considered.
- RequiredLimited to certain organisation types
Eligibility is restricted to specific organisation types, which may exclude an ordinary company.
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
Application process not captured.
Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
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- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
No risk assessment yet. Re-analyse from Admin.
IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
No IP assessment yet.
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
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- Needs verification
- Nothing flagged
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/345938
- Last fetched
- 2026.08.16
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.16
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
- Needs verification
- PRIMARYGrants.gov HQ003423NFOEASD01
Fetched 3h ago
- OFFICIAL_APIGrants.gov Search2 API
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- · 3h ago — 최초 수집 (00024e1a)