SBIR DON26BX03-NP002 (Navy): NAVAIR & NAVSEA Open Topic for Counter Unmanned Air Systems (C-UAS)
U.S. Department of Defense — Navy
Who can apply
Small Business. Startup
About this opportunity
Navy SBIR topic — under DoW SBIR 2026 CSO (Solicitation 26.BX, Release 3) — Accepting submissions 2026-06-24 to 2026-07-22. Objective: The DON is seeking proposals for enhancing existing prototypes or concepts to improve C-UAS operations and demonstrate a novel, highly effective, and scalable capability to counter the rapidly proliferating threat of hostile UAS. Adversaries are increasingly leveraging low-cost, autonomous, and often numerous UAS to gain an asymmetric advantage, conduct surveillance, and execute kinetic attacks, posing a significant risk to U.S. and allied forces, critical infrastructure, and mission success. This SBIR Open Topic seeks innovative solutions that can detect, track, identify, and neutralize single and multiple UAS threats in complex operational environments, u...