Military Health System Research (DOD)

• Date: 18 February 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31567
• Published date: 18 February 2021

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Grants alert (cont.)

Areas: DOC said the purpose of Phase I is for NIST

to determine the technical feasibility of the research,

preliminary commercialization merit of the proposed

effort, and the quality of the awardee’s performance.

The application should concentrate on describing

research that will signicantly contribute to proving

the feasibility of the proposed Phase II research and

commercialization potential, prerequisites to receiving

further support in Phase II.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 2021-NIST-SBIR-01

Market Development Cooperator Program

(DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s International

Trade Administration seeks applications for the

FY21 Market Development Cooperator Program

announcement to underwrite the start-up costs of new

foreign market development projects that industry

organizations are often reluctant to undertake without

federal government support.

Deadline: May 25, 2021.

Funds: $1.5 million total for up to seven awards ranging

from $50,000 to $300,000.

Eligibility: Trade associations; state departments of

trade and their regional associations; and nonprot

organizations, including organizations such as World

Trade Centers, standards-developing organizations,

centers for international trade development, and small

business development centers.

Areas: DOC said activities may include addressing

non-tariff barriers to U.S. exports such as discriminatory

regulations, local content requirements, onerous

standards or conformity assessment procedures,

and other measures that may be unreasonably

trade restrictive; securing strong intellectual property

rights protection and combating counterfeiting and

piracy; countering discriminatory trade policies; and

participating in the formulation and encouraging the

adoption of standards that are industry developed,

market-driven, science-based, and internationally

recognized.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# ITA-INA-OIE-2021-2006761

Procurement Technical Assistance Program

(DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department’s Defense Logistics

Agency seeks applications for the Procurement

Technical Assistance Program announcement to expand

the number of business capable of participating in

government contracts.

Deadline: May 3, 2021.

Funds: $48 million total for up to 10 awards ranging

from $50,000 to $1 million.

Eligibility: Public colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local, special district, and

Native American tribal governments and organizations.

Areas: DOD said funding support to businesses

includes registration in systems such as the System for

Award Management (SAM), identication of contract

opportunities, help in understanding requirements and in

preparing and submitting bids.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# DLA-202102

Military Health System Research (DOD)

Scope: The Defense Department seeks applications

for the Military Health System Research (MHSR)

announcement to foster research capability and

capacity within the Military Health System (MHS) that

supports the MHS transition to an integrated health

system focused on the Quadruple Aim: improved health

readiness, better health, better care, and lower cost.

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2021.

Funds: $10 million total for up to eight awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: DOD said it seeks studies on factors that

affect the access, economics/cost, quality, variation

and outcomes of military health care delivery. This

includes how policies, social factors, nancing

systems, organizational structures and processes,

health technologies, and behaviors inuence the

military health care delivery to DOD beneciaries–i.e.,

individual service members, families, communities, and

populations.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 22-DHA-MHSR

X-Strack—Programming Environments

for Scientic Computing (DOE)

Scope: The Energy Department’s Office of Science

seeks applications for the X-Strack: Programming

Environments for Scientic Computing announcement

for basic research in computer science exploring

innovative approaches to creating, verifying, validating,

optimizing, maintaining, and executing scientic software

targeting distributed, heterogeneous, high-performance

computing platforms.

Deadline: April 12, 2021.

Funds: $12 million total for awards ranging from

$100,000 to $300,000.

Eligibility: Unrestricted except nonprot organizations.

Areas: DOE said unlocking the potential benets

of next-generation systems depends on a high-

productivity, sustainable development cycle that

yields acceptable application performance. The

development cycle of scientic applications includes

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