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Opportunity Summary:

The Autism Research Program (ARP) Concept Award is a Department of the Army (USAMRAA) funding opportunity designed to spark genuinely new directions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) research. Its central purpose is to support the exploration of a highly innovative concept or an untested theory that tackles an important ASD-related problem. The program is explicitly built for ideas that are early, unconventional, and potentially transformative, including work that originates from unexpected or serendipitous observations. In practice, it is meant to underwrite scientific risk in exchange for the possibility of opening up entirely new avenues of investigation.

A key point of this award is what it does not fund: it is not intended to support the next logical step in an already established, ongoing research project. Instead, applicants are expected to propose a departure from their existing trajectory, where the main value is testing a fresh hypothesis, probing a novel mechanism, or introducing a new framework that could shift how the field thinks about ASD. Proposals must clearly explain how the new idea will either meaningfully enhance current knowledge of ASD or create a new line of inquiry that did not previously exist. The expectation is that even if the work is exploratory, the concept is compelling and the approach is strong enough to justify the risk.

The Concept Award also functions as a “seed” mechanism. Research supported through this award is intended to generate enough initial findings or preliminary data to position the Principal Investigator (PI) for a larger, follow-on research proposal in the future. In other words, the award is oriented toward early validation, feasibility demonstration, or proof-of-concept results that can justify subsequent, more comprehensive studies.

Administratively, this opportunity was offered under Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH-09-ARP-CA and categorized as a discretionary program. The funding instruments listed include cooperative agreement and grant, and the activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development. The estimated total funding was $800,000, with an expectation of making about 7 awards, indicating relatively small, competitive awards aimed at testing bold ideas rather than supporting large-scale multi-year programs. There was no cost sharing or matching requirement.

Eligibility was listed as unrestricted, meaning it was open to any type of applicant organization, subject to any additional eligibility details that may have been included in the full announcement. The opportunity was posted and created on March 2, 2009, with an original and final application deadline of July 15, 2009, and it was archived on August 14, 2009. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number associated with this program was 12.420, Military Medical Research and Development.

For applicant support and technical access issues, the announcement provided contact points including PA HELP (301-619-7079, cdmrp.pa@amedd.army.mil), eReceipt HELP (301-682-5507, help@cdmrp.org), and the CDMRP Help Desk.

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