The FY16 Defense Appropriations Act
provides $125 million (M) to the Department of Defense FY16 Psychological
Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (PH/TBI) Research Program to support to support innovative research committed to complement and
further ongoing DoD efforts to ensure the health and readiness of our military
forces. As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency, Research, Development and
Acquisition (DHA RDA) Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP)
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The
managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcement/Funding Opportunity is
the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) with strategic oversight
from Joint Program Committee 5 (JPC5)/Military Operational Medicine Research
Program (MOMRP).
The PH/TBI Research Program is providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop applications. The Cognitive Resilience and Readiness Research Award (CR3A) Program Announcement and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanism are anticipated to be posted on the Grants.gov website in May 2016. Pre-application and application deadlines will be available when the Program Announcements are released. This pre-announcement should not be construed as an obligation by the government.
The PH/TBI Research Program is providing the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop applications. The Cognitive Resilience and Readiness Research Award (CR3A) Program Announcement and General Application Instructions for the following award mechanism are anticipated to be posted on the Grants.gov website in May 2016. Pre-application and application deadlines will be available when the Program Announcements are released. This pre-announcement should not be construed as an obligation by the government.
The
Cognitive Resilience and Readiness Research Award (CR3A)
- Independent
investigators at all academic levels (or equivalent)
·
A
pre-application is required; application submission is by invitation only
·
The FY16 CR3A
intent is to support applied and clinical biomedical research focused on the
biomedical basis of cognitive resilience and readiness in Service members.
- The Program
Announcement seeks research applications intended focused on (a) tools and
strategies to confer robustness and adaptability in cognitive performance
and (b) translation of cognitive resilience to military operational
performance and Service member health.
·
The anticipated
funding limit is $3M total costs.
·
The anticipated
maximum period of performance is 3 years.
A
pre-application is required and must be submitted through the electronic
Biomedical Research Application Portal (eBRAP) at https://eBRAP.org
prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to
the final Program
Announcements
and General Application Instructions that will be available for electronic
downloading from Grants.gov. A listing of
all CDMRP funding opportunities can be obtained on the Grants.gov website by performing a basic search
using CFDA Number 12.420.
Full
applications must be submitted through the federal government’s single-entry
portal, Grants.gov.
Submission deadlines are not available until the Program Announcement is
released. Requests for email notification of the Program Announcement
release may be sent to help@eBRAP.org.
For more information about the PH/TBI or other CDMRP managed programs, please
visit the CDMRP
website (http://cdmrp.army.mil).
Point
of Contact:
CDMRP
Public Affairs
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