SBIR OSW26BZ04-DP013 (Office of the Secretary of Defense): T3CP Patent Holiday SBIR Open Topic Call

About this archived opportunity

Office of the Secretary of Defense SBIR topic — under DoW SBIR 2026 BAA (Solicitation 26.BZ, Release 4) — Accepting submissions 2026-07-22 to 2026-08-19. Objective: Develop innovative, transition-ready prototype solutions that leverage Department of War inventions made available through the T3CP Patent Holiday Initiative in the areas of Microelectronics, Advanced Materials, Energetics, Munitions, and Critical Minerals and supply-chain-enabling technologies. Description: The Office of Technology, Transition and Commercial Partnerships (T3CP) is seeking innovative approaches that accelerate the commercialization and dual-use transition of government funded intellectual property made available through the T3CP Patent Holiday Initiative. Launched in January 2026, the Patent Holiday Initiative curates priority inventions from intellectual property (IP) in which the government holds either title or statutory rights of use and offers no-cost commercial evaluation licenses (CELs) to qualifying industry partn ers, enabling small businesses to prototype, evaluate, and commercialize products built on DoW-origin patents. T3CP is seeking proposals that translate and mature these priority government funded inventions into prototype capabilities with clear commercial relevance and credible transition potential. This topic is structured as a broad open topic with five sector areas. Offerors should propose within the sector most aligned to the patent or patents they seek to commercialize, clearly identifying the target product concept, end users, integration pathway, technical approach, and measurable milestones. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable meaningful advances in devices, components, materials, manufacturing processes, software-enabled tools, or integrated product concepts. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice without a credible prototype and commercialization pathway. Sub-categories of interest under this topic include, but are not limited to, the following: - Microelectronics: The rapid advancement of commercial microelectronics offers significant potential for accelerating DoW capabilities in sensing, communications, positioning, and cyber-resilient systems. T3CP is interested in technologies that leverage DoW patents to develop commercially relevant microelectronics-based products with defense and dual-use transition potential. Sub-categories of interest under Microelectronics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Resilient communications and adaptive networking systems - Assured position, navigation, and timing; GNSS spoofing detection and timing integrity technologies - RF sensing, radar, spectrum awareness, and electronic support tools - Compact, wideband, metamaterial, or reconfigurable antenna technologies - Embedded electronics and sensing for autonomous systems or edge-deployed platforms - Secure network automation, physical-layer identification, and infrastructure resilience technologies - Advanced Materials: Advances in functional materials, coatings, composites, and manufacturing processes offer significant commercial and defense potential. T3CP is interested in technologies that apply DoW patents to create innovative products in advanced materials, functional surfaces, protective textiles, and materials-enabled sensing. Sub-categories of interest under Advanced Materials include, but are not limited…