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ATI Horizons creates opportunities for organizations and individuals to connect with emerging priorities, contribute their expertise, and build capabilities for the future.
Explore current challenges, programs, events, and communities to find the right way to participate:
PRiZE challenges
Open innovation challenges inviting solution providers to compete for non-dilutive awards.
Smart Cities Two-Step Challenge
One challenge. Two steps.New possibilities. Cities bring real-world challenges. Innovators bring the solutions. Help identify and solve an emerging city need...
2026/11/10
Call Opens
ATI Horizons Critical Technology Spotlight: Operation Energy & Logistics
Accelerating transformative technologies in support of defense and national security. Submit your technology or solution for operational energy, resilient logistics, dual use infrastructure, and cybersecurity of industrial control and energy...
Mine the Gap Critical Minerals Challenge
Federal agencies including the Department of Energy, Department of War, and U.S. Geological Survey have identified critical minerals as a national priority. Recent federal actions have further accelerated efforts to...
2026/12/01
Application Opens
Nuclear Futures Challenge
Advanced nuclear technologies, including both fusion and fission systems, represent an important area of long-horizon research and development. Progress in these systems depends not only on reactor concepts themselves, but...
2026/12/07
Application Opens
Convenings
Meetings, events, webinars, symposia, and other gatherings that connect people and strengthen the innovation ecosystem.
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit (OELS)
This Summit brings together defense leaders, technology innovators, investors, and industry partners to support the Department of War’s energy and security needs, as outlined by the National Defense Strategy and...
TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo
Join the world’s brightest researchers, innovators, and technology scouts March 23–25, 2027 in Boston, celebrating 30 years of connecting top applied research and early-stage innovations from universities, labs, and startups...
Fusion and Fission Technology Synergies Symposium
This symposium will bring together the fusion and fission communities to share knowledge, capabilities, and best practices on technical domains between these two fields, such as plant operation, measurement tools...
Quantum Sensors and Networking Symposium
By bringing together leaders from academia, industry, and government, this symposium aims to accelerate the translation of quantum sensing and networking technologies into commercially viable systems and infrastructure...
ATI Horizons Workforce Development Program
ATI aims to raise student and educator awareness across the fields of artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and advanced manufacturing, and associated career opportunities. We offer programming for students and educators...
Genesis Mission
The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Genesis Mission in 2025 to mobilize government, industry, and academia to advance AI for science and technology. The national initiative has created shared...
Microplastics: Transport and Detection
Microplastics are now pervasive in our environment and are found in our oceans, freshwater, plants, animals, and even human bodies. Understanding how they spread is the focus of this inaugural...
Innovations in Critical Minerals and Materials
With increasing global demand for critical materials and growing uncertainties in supply chains, the Innovations in Critical Minerals and Materials symposium will bring together industry leaders, academic researchers, and national...
Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo
This spring, Smart Cities Connect Conference will examine the strategies, partnerships, and technologies driving long-term impact across city systems. From experimental pilots to large-scale infrastructure, we’ll look at how communities...
SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference
SBIR/STTR programs support transition and commercialization of existing awards. Learn about new and existing innovation pathways for your small business, including: SBIR/STTR Phase IIIs, Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs), Department of...
Energy Storage from Molecules to Megawatts
Energy storage continues to prove itself as a versatile tool toward secure, reliable, resilient, and affordable electricity in a strong, modernized electrical grid. Connecting emerging and maturing technologies with unprecedented...
Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo
Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo unites the innovation community with the US Department of War for the benefit of national security and societal advancement. The event champions the imperatives...
Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo
This fall, Smart Cities Connect Conference will examine the strategies, partnerships, and technologies driving long-term impact across city systems. From experimental pilots to large-scale infrastructure, we’ll look at how communities...
MOSA Industry and Government Summit & Expo
Convening government, industry, and technical communities to advance the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) as a strategic enabler for defense acquisition and innovation...
SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference Fall
Learn about new and existing innovation pathways for your small business, including SBIR/STTR Phase IIIs, OTs/OTAs, private capital investment, and industry partnerships. Network with a community which includes leadership from...
Communities
Focused groups built around shared interests and emerging needs, often before formal solicitations, with opportunities to engage through webinars, meetings, prize challenges, and more.
Space, Cyber, and Intelligence
Bringing together partners across AI; space technology; digital/data tech; surveillance, reconnaissance, tracking (SRT); and intelligence to accelerate innovation for national security...
Modular Open System Approach (MOSA)
Representing stakeholders from across the modular open systems landscape, including: sensor manufacturers, communications software developers, UAS experts, and microelectronic device creators. Tracking the priorities of the federal government, this community...
ConnectWerx
Developing critical energy solutions to heighten energy security, and strengthen national security ecosystems. Our mission is connecting across the US Industrial and Academic base, to help the Department of Energy...
Advanced Maritime Manufacturing
A national hub for collaboration across next-generation fabrication, digital integration, and sustainment technologies that are transforming the maritime industrial base. From shipyards to suppliers, and from digital twins to robotic...
Advanced Manufacturing In Space
This community aims to foster a collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable ecosystem for manufacturing activities in space and unites partners from various sectors, including additive manufacturing, biomanufacturing, and microelectronics, to drive...
ATI Programs
Consortium-led calls for innovation that connect solution providers with government customers, funding, and direct pathways to government work.
DOTC: RWP 27-01
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
BioMap: Advanced R&D of Medical Countermeasures Through Agile and Distributed End-to-End Drug Manufacturing
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
TREX: 120mm Mortar Training System
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
MATAC: Prototypes and Experiments Rapid Fielding Sites
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
MATAC: CBM+ Software and Analytics Development
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
NSTIC: DEG-27-A-001
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
NSTIC: ACSE-27-B-001
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
NSTIC: RFS 27-01 Multiple Topics
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
NSTIC: RFS 27-01R Multiple Topics
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
DIBC: RFI 27-01
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, Industrial Base Management and Supply Chain (APSR IBMSC) is seeking to establish advanced research and development of medical countermeasures through agile and distributed...
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