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Opportunity Summary:

The DoD Forward Surgical and En Route Care funding opportunity (W81XWH-13-CCCJPC6-FSERC) is a U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) program announcement under the Combat Casualty Care Research Program. It is aimed at pushing practical solutions that improve battlefield and operational medical care, especially in forward surgical settings and during en route care (the period when casualties are being moved through the evacuation chain). The announcement emphasizes that proposals need to be built on clear, logical reasoning and a solid scientific foundation, demonstrated through a critical review of existing literature. Competitive applications are expected to present a well-formed, testable hypothesis that follows directly from that rationale, rather than speculative or purely exploratory ideas.

The work supported is specifically applied research and advanced technology development, not basic science. In this context, applied research means taking existing concepts and refining them into workable candidate solutions for military health and performance problems, with an emphasis on showing technical feasibility and preparing for first-in-human evaluation. Advanced technology development goes a step further by supporting the creation of candidate solutions and components that can be assembled into early prototype systems for testing and evaluation. The overall intent is translational: move promising medical devices, drugs, biologics, vaccines, or other technologies toward early real-world use, rather than generating general knowledge without a clear path to an operational product.

The announcement allows for small-scale human clinical trials, including phase I and some early phase II studies, as long as the trials focus on initial safety, feasibility, and early signals of efficacy or effectiveness. It explicitly excludes late phase II large-scale effectiveness trials and activities that look like advanced product development beyond early prototyping and initial evaluation. The opportunity also defines what counts as a clinical trial: a prospective study that enrolls human subjects and tests an intervention (such as a device, drug, biologic, surgical procedure, rehabilitation approach, behavioral intervention, or similar) with measurable outcomes tied to safety, effectiveness, efficacy, or exploratory endpoints. In other words, if people are prospectively enrolled and an intervention is evaluated for outcomes, the project is treated as a clinical trial under this program.

A key practical requirement is that preliminary data are required for applied research and advanced technology development applications, signaling that applicants should already have early evidence supporting feasibility or promise. Funding may not be used for fundamental basic research, which the announcement describes as research primarily intended to expand general scientific understanding rather than produce near-term improvements in medical care in operationally relevant environments. This makes the program best suited for teams that already have a candidate intervention or prototype direction and can credibly show a plan to test and mature it toward initial human use.

Administratively, this is a discretionary opportunity using grants and cooperative agreements within the Science and Technology/Research and Development category. The total estimated funding is about $17,000,000 with an expected 8 awards, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted (open to any entity type, subject to any additional eligibility details in the full announcement). The posting date was January 24, 2013, with an application closing date of May 6, 2013 (and the opportunity archived June 5, 2013). The CFDA number associated with it is 12.420 (Military Medical Research and Development). For access issues or questions about the full announcement, the listed contact is programannouncements@tatrc.org via the TATRC Help Desk.

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