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Combat Readiness-Medical

NEWS RELEASE

Released: March 24, 2026

Defense Health Agency Research and Development
Medical Research and Development Command
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
Combat Readiness-Medical Research Program
Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2026

The FY26 Defense Appropriations Act provides funding for the CRRP to support innovative, high-impact research with clinical relevance that will lead to increased survivability and readiness of the Warfighter. As part of the DHA R&D-MRDC, the CDMRP is the program office managing this anticipated FY26 funding opportunity.

The CRRP provides the information in this pre-announcement to allow investigators time to plan and develop ideas for submission to the anticipated FY26 funding opportunity. Investigators should not construe this pre-announcement as an obligation or promise by the government. The CDMRP will post the FY26 CRRP funding opportunity announcement on the Grants.gov website. Once released, the funding opportunity announcement will include pre-application and application deadlines.

Applications submitted to the FY26 CRRP must address one or more of the following focus areas:

  • Battlefield diagnostics, triage, and decision aid tools: Solutions to enhance delivery of care in point of injury, austere resuscitative and surgical care, prolonged casualty care, and en route care environments
  • Treatments: Solutions to enhance delivery of care in point of injury, austere resuscitative and surgical care, prolonged casualty care, and en route care environments
  • Battlefield readiness: Solutions to address readiness with a focus on pre-hospital and operational environments

Award Mechanism Eligibility Key Mechanism Elements Funding
Translational Research Award Independent Investigators at all academic levels, or equivalent.
  • The CRRP requires submission of a pre-proposal; application submission is by invitation only.
  • Supports hypothesis-driven innovative, high-impact translational research that will accelerate the movement of promising ideas and/or technologies in trauma care into solutions to maximize casualty survivability, improve patient care closer to the point of injury, and/or inform trauma care guidelines
  • Applications must include preliminary data
  • Applications allow, but do not require, research using well-validated animal models.
  • Applications allow, but do not require, clinical research
  • Applications can support small scale, pilot clinical trials as optional research period efforts only
  • Maximum allowable funding is $2.45 million for total costs
    • Only $1.45M guaranteed with FY26 funds; additional costs supported as optional research efforts
  • Maximum period of performance is 3 years
    • Maximum base period of performance: 2 years
    • Maximum optional research period: 1 year
*Total costs include direct and indirect costs.

Before full application submission, the CDMRP requires submission of a pre-application through the electronic Biomedical Research Application Portal, eBRAP, prior to the pre-application deadline. All applications must conform to the final funding opportunity announcements available for downloading from Grants.gov. To obtain a listing of all CDMRP funding opportunities on the Grants.gov website, perform a basic search using CFDA number 12.420.

To receive email notifications upon release of funding opportunity announcements, subscribe to program-specific news and updates under "Email Subscriptions" on the eBRAP homepage. For more information about the CRRP or other CDMRP-administered programs, please visit the CDMRP website.

Point of Contact:
CDMRP Public Affairs
301-619-7071
dha.detrick.cdmrp.mbx.public-affairs@health.mil


Last updated Tuesday, March 24, 2026