FederalOpenFixed dateAir Force -- Research Lab

Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments

Award ceiling
up to $49,000,000
Closes
Jul 18, 2029
Last verified
2026-10-15

Awards up to $49,000,000 per recipient for unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Jul 18, 2029.

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Open to any applicantScience, Technology, Research & Development

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Research and Development (RAD) Directed Energy (RD) University Assistance Instruments awards up to $49,000,000 per recipient, open to unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Jul 18,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not stated
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$49,000,000
Award floor
Not stated
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Jul 18, 2029
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Jul 18, 2024
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Not confirmed
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$49,000,000

Who can apply?

level
federal
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity types
industry
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

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When does it close?

Jul 18, 20291006 daysDeadline type Fixed date
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How hard is the application?

1 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

131 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 131 of 335 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$387,500
  • Median$1,200,000
  • 75th percentile$6,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Who has won this programme before?

3863 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.

3863 federal awards on file under assistance listing 12.800, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.

Every award under this programme

Common questions

4 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $49,000,000 per recipient.
When is the application deadline?
Jul 18, 2029.
Who is eligible to apply?
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

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What else is open

Also open from Air Force -- Research Lab
Also open under assistance listing 12.800

A listing names the programme; a notice names one round of it. These are other rounds open now, not other years of this one.

Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-15
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-08-31
Assistance listing12.800

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