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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Autism Pilot Award (Funding Opportunity Number W81XWH 11 ARP PA) is a competitive Department of Defense research funding opportunity administered through the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under the Autism Research Program. It is designed to push the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) field forward by funding early-stage ideas that are genuinely new and potentially transformative, rather than safe, incremental work. The award mechanism is offered as a grant or cooperative agreement under the Science and Technology and other Research and Development category, and it sits within CFDA 12.420, Military Medical Research and Development.

The core purpose of this Pilot Award is to support conceptually innovative, high risk/high reward research that could plausibly lead to critical discoveries or major advances in ASD. The program is looking for projects that start from a clear, testable hypothesis and a strong scientific rationale, but that also take chances on ideas that have not been tried before. In practical terms, proposals are expected to introduce untested concepts, new theories or paradigms, novel approaches, or potentially groundbreaking methods. The intent is to fund work that could open up new directions for ASD research if successful, even if the outcome is uncertain, which is a hallmark of pilot-style, high-impact funding.

Just as important as what the program wants to fund is what it does not want to fund. This opportunity is explicitly not meant for continuing existing studies, expanding an ongoing project in a straightforward way, or taking the next logical step in a line of research that is already well established. In other words, it is not a bridge or extension award for work already in progress, and it is not aimed at incremental progress. The emphasis is on novelty and potential for major advancement rather than building on a mature project with predictable outcomes.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity was posted on May 25, 2011, with an original and current closing date of November 9, 2011, and an archive date of December 9, 2011. The program anticipated making around 10 awards, with an estimated total funding level of $1,600,000. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, which means applicants were not required to contribute non-federal funds to be eligible or competitive under this announcement.

Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it was broadly open to applicants of any entity type, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may have appeared in the full text of the announcement. That typically indicates a wide applicant pool that can include academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, for-profit entities, and other research-capable organizations, depending on the detailed terms in the complete solicitation.

For help accessing the full announcement or resolving technical issues, the contact provided is the CDMRP Help Desk at 301-682-5507 or help@cdmrp.org.

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