This is a DARPA SBIR/STTR contract topic, not a typical grant: it funds a for-profit US small business to build a noninvasive sensing-plus-AI device that combat medics can use to detect and monitor hidden bleeding in the field. It fits tech and healthcare/biotech small businesses doing R&D in that space. Nonprofits and companies outside medical sensing technology should not bother.
| Industry | Estimated fit |
|---|---|
| Technology & SoftwareMatches your industry (tech, sbir, sttr) | 79 |
| Healthcare & BiotechMatches your industry (medical, clinical) | 70 |
| Energy & Clean TechLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 50 |
| Food & BeverageLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 47 |
| Housing & Real EstateLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 47 |
| Construction & InfrastructureLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 45 |
| Industry | Estimated fit |
|---|---|
| ManufacturingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 45 |
| Transportation & LogisticsLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 44 |
| Agriculture & FarmingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 43 |
| Finance & BankingLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 43 |
| Retail & E-CommerceLimit: Primarily for minority-owned businesses | 43 |
| 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.
DARPA SBIR Phase I/II contract topic open only to US for-profit small businesses (500 or fewer employees, majority US-owned, SAM.gov registered). Funds development of a noninvasive sensing plus AI device that lets combat medics detect, localize, and monitor life-threatening occult hemorrhage in austere field conditions.
TThe goal of this development effort is to produce a noninvasive or minimally invasive capability that enables Role 1 medical personnel (specifically, a combat medic with no surgical or pre-operative imaging expertise) to rapidly detect, localize, and characterize the rate of life-threatening, occult, or non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH) that cannot be precisely identified through routine clinical assessments available in the field. The proposed solution should integrate advanced sensing technologies with artificial intelligence to provide accurate, real-time detection, anatomic localization, and quantitative or semi-quantitative estimation of bleeding rate, distinguishing slow or self-limiting hemorrhage from rapidly expanding, exsanguinating hemorrhage, and should function in austere and contested environments. The capability should support serial or continuous monitoring such that changes in hemorrhage rate can be tracked to provide updates to the medic in near-real time. Solutions should provide intuitive, actionable visualization of both hemorrhage location and rate to support timely medical decision-making, triage, and evacuation prioritization when definitive surgical care is delayed or denied.
Program: SBIR, Phase I and Phase II Agency: Department of War, DARPA Topic number: DPA26BZ06-DV025 Solicitation: 26.BZ Released September 2, 2026; proposals accepted from September 23, 2026 Closes October 21, 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/12977. 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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