This is an Army SBIR Phase II contract opportunity for for-profit US small businesses with 500 or fewer employees that can develop and demonstrate spectrum warfare technology: tactical surveillance, autonomous network management, or electromagnetic environment visualization tools for NATO/joint operations. If you are not a small defense technology firm working in RF, communications, or cyber, do not bother. Nonprofits cannot apply, and the award amount is not published.
| Industry | Estimated fit |
|---|---|
| Technology & SoftwareMatches your industry (tech, sbir, cyber) | 81 |
| Energy & Clean TechLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 54 |
| Healthcare & BiotechLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 54 |
| Food & BeverageLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 47 |
| ManufacturingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 47 |
| Retail & E-CommerceLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 47 |
| Industry | Estimated fit |
|---|---|
| Agriculture & FarmingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 46 |
| Construction & InfrastructureLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 46 |
| Transportation & LogisticsLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 44 |
| Finance & BankingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 43 |
| Housing & Real EstateLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 42 |
| Arts & CultureLimit: This program does not accept nonprofit applicants. | 0 |
| Education & TrainingLimit: This program does not accept nonprofit applicants. | 0 |
| Environment & ConservationLimit: This program does not accept nonprofit applicants. | 0 |
| Social Services & NonprofitLimit: This program does not accept nonprofit applicants. | 0 |
These are our matcher’s estimates for a typical business in each industry. A real match depends on your size, your state and what you need the money for — check your own fit.
Army SBIR Phase II topic open only to for-profit US small businesses with 500 or fewer employees. Funds development and demonstration of spectrum warfare capabilities: electromagnetic support/tactical surveillance, autonomous network management, and electromagnetic environment visualization and battle damage assessment tools for NATO/joint operations.
The operational challenge on the Eastern Flank is the enablement of U.S. Army forces, operating within a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and joint coalition framework, to sense, understand, exploit, attack, and protect across a contested electromagnetic environment and connected cyberspace. To deter peer aggression and preserve freedom of maneuver, V Corps must protect tactical command and control networks while delivering synchronized, non-lethal and lethal effects at depth against adversary command, control, communications, and targeting architectures.
Gaining and maintaining spectrum superiority against dense anti-access / area denial systems requires a modular, coalition-interoperable architecture that operates in congested radio frequency (RF) environments, executes multi-echelon precision effects, and hardens friendly formations against persistent electromagnetic and cyber disruption during competition, crisis, and conflict. The Army requires capabilities that are scalable, upgradeable, intuitive for Soldiers across military occupational specialties, and maintainable at the tactical edge without routine reliance on field service representatives for minor repairs or adjustments.
The Army is seeking to evaluate capabilities to participate in one of three demonstration tracks (eligible for SBIR follow-on contacts) as part of this Spectrum Enabled Warfare ACE:
Capability 1: Electromagnetic Support / Tactical Surveillance
Capability 2: Autonomous Network Management
Capability 3: Electromagnetic Environment Visualization and Battle Damage Assessment Tools
Full competition details including details on the topic areas of interest can be found in Appendix A section of the G-TEAD USAREUR-AF ACE 27-02: Spectrum Enabled Warfare Powered by xTech RFI here: https://www.xtech.army.mil/competitions/.
Program: SBIR, Phase II Agency: Department of War, Army Topic number: ARM27BX01-DP001 Solicitation: 27.BX Released October 7, 2026; proposals accepted from October 28, 2026 Closes November 25, 2026. Check the official solicitation for the exact due time. Award type: contract, not a grant. Official solicitation: https://www.dodsbirsttr.mil/topics-app/ Listed on SBIR.gov: https://www.sbir.gov/topics/13049. SBIR.gov copies agency solicitations and can lag behind them; the official solicitation is the final word.
Small businesses only: a for-profit US business with 500 or fewer employees, including affiliates.
More than 50% owned and controlled by US citizens or permanent residents (some agencies also accept majority ownership by venture capital, hedge fund or private equity firms; the solicitation says).
SBIR: the principal investigator is primarily employed by the business. STTR: the business partners with a US nonprofit research institution or university, which does at least 30% of the work.
Registered in SAM.gov before submitting.
Check the official solicitation for its own conditions, proposal limits and security review.
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