Cybersecurity

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Contracts for Innovation: Cyber Scale in Critical Sectors (2026)

Innovate UK is running a Competition for cybersecurity organisations with TRL-7 solutions to scale into real critical-sector environments, with up to £3.5m in total competition funding and project awards up to £300,000 (VAT inclusive).

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Up to £3,500,000 total competition budget; up to £300,000 per awarded project inclusive of VAT Deadline: Jun 10, 2026 Location: United Kingdom

DARPA Bio-Attribution Challenge (2026)

A two-round DARPA prize challenge that funds teams developing AI, machine learning, or computational methods to identify, characterize, and attribute modified biological sequence data using secured cloud-scale testing environments.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: $180,000 total prize pool Deadline: Jun 15, 2026 Location: United States

HORIZON-CL3-2026-02-CS-ECCC: Cybersecurity Topics in Horizon Europe 2026-2027

An open single-stage Horizon Europe call managed by the ECCC that funds cybersecurity innovation in software security, AI robustness, and post-quantum cryptography through three topics with a EUR 56.2 million indicative budget.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: EUR 56.2 million total indicative budget (topic budgets: EUR 20m, EUR 21.2m, EUR 15m) Deadline: Sep 15, 2026 Location: Europe and European Union

NSF 25-515: Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (SaTC 2.0)

NSF program solicitation 25-515 funds interdisciplinary cybersecurity, privacy, and trust research and education; it includes multiple proposal tracks and recurring 2026/2027 target deadlines for full proposals.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: 60M USD/year available for all awards; no cost sharing allowed. Deadline: Sep 28, 2026 Location: United States

NSF 25-531: Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)

An active NSF solicitation for research that improves scientific cyberinfrastructure, including AI-ready data integrity and provenance, through four program tracks with recurring deadlines and annual award funding windows.

Status: Rolling Type: Grant Amount: Program budget $8,000,000–$12,000,000 total Deadline: Rolling or ongoing Location: United States

NSF 26-503: CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS)

Active NSF 2026/2027 CyberAI workforce scholarship-and-innovation competition for US higher-education institutions with scholarship tracks, innovation track proposals, and funding for AI and cybersecurity training linked to federal service placements.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Grant Amount: Scholarship Track up to $2,500,000 per award (max 3-year duration) Deadline: Apr 3, 2026 Location: United States

NSF 26-506: Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE)

NSF funding for creating sustainable, secure open-source ecosystems through three tracks focused on planning, scaling, and improving security of high-impact research-derived software and infrastructure.

Status: Open Type: Grant Amount: Anticipated program funding up to 40,000,000 USD Deadline: Sep 1, 2026 Location: United States

Singapore Quantum Communications Testbed: $6.2M to Build the Unhackable Internet

A practical guide to Singapore's National Quantum-Safe Network ecosystem: what this program is, what the public pages confirm, who should apply, and how to decide whether to spend time on it.

Status: Deadline Passed Type: Funding Opportunity Amount: SGD $6,200,000 (historical listing amount Deadline: May 30, 2025 Location: Singapore