Federal · SBIR Roadmap 2026
SBIR Roadmap — pre-mapped solicitations
Named PA/RFA mechanisms с deadlines, award sizes, target program officers, и Nightbox pillar alignment. Federal-stack ready: SAM Active, CAGE 20BA7, DSIP firm registered, eRA Commons institution submitted.
DAF26BX02-NV501 — Resilient Voice-Enabled AI Assistant
USAF SBIR · DoW SBIR 2026 CSO · Release 2
Status
Pre-Release · Open 05/27/2026 · Close 06/24/2026
Award
$150-250K Phase I
Pillar match
SilverDuck + UniGPU + SDPC — 6 of 6 required capabilities match
CMMC
Level 2 Self (current L1 self-attested → path к L2)
TPOCs
Jondavid DuVall, Jordan Faucett
ITAR
Restricted; FN disclosure mandatory (operator Russian-born US-tax-resident)
NIH NCI SBIR Omnibus PA-26-273
NIH · National Cancer Institute
Deadline
5 сентября 2026
Award
$300-400K Phase I, $2M Phase II
Pillar match
NKG2D-LIF6 gene therapy — CRC/melanoma/pancreatic syngeneic in vivo, pre-IND H2 2026
Prereq
eRA Commons institution active (submitted 2026-05-19, awaiting approval)
ARPA-H Resilient Systems BAA
ARPA-H · Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health
Award
$1-2M direct contract
Pillar match
Distributed biotech platform для off-the-shelf solid-tumor gene therapy; AAV9 manufacturing partnerships; pre-IND IND-enabling toxicology
BARDA DRIVe — BAA-26-100-SOL-00007
BARDA · Biomedical Advanced R&D Authority
Award
$500K-$2M
Pillar match
NKG2D-LIF6 dual-use platform для host-directed medical countermeasures (broad-spectrum oncolytic + biothreat-pathogen stress signaling)
DARPA AIE Microsystems
DARPA · Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Award
$500K-$1M Disruption Opportunity
Pillar match
UniGPU vendor-neutral GPU runtime — federal-grade reproducible compute attestation; MLPerf submission; NIST 800-171A independent assessor track
AFWERX Spark Open Topic
USAF · AFWERX Spark
Deadline
Continuous submission
Award
$75-150K seed
Pillar match
UniGPU production deployment в DoW CDS environment; SDPC encrypted cloud handoff для AFWERX innovator pipelines
NSF SBIR Cyber/AI Track
NSF · National Science Foundation
Award
$275K Phase I
Pillar match
SDPC post-quantum encrypted handoff productionization; NIST CAVP application; integration с federal AI inference pipelines
DoW CDMRP PRCRP
DoW · Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program)
Award
$300K-$1.2M
Pillar match
CRC syngeneic in vivo + Phase I IND-enabling tox; veteran-population colorectal cancer outreach
Federal portal stack
- SAM.gov: UEI UHCAB6UXXKF2 Active
- DSIP (DoD SBIR/STTR): Firm registered, ready for proposal submission
- NIH eRA Commons: Institution registration submitted (8-day verify + multi-day approval)
- Grants.gov: Organization registration в queue (depends on eRA для NIH track)
- DSBS (SBA Small Business Search): Self-register pending
- AFWERX Spark portal: Account creation pending
Machine-readable companion: solicitation-match.json