Navy Medicine Research Support Omnibus III

Provide comprehensive acquisition life cycle support services related to the American Warfighter as a weapon system in the context of Navy Medicine research. This includes (1) conducting extramural medical research or intramural (on-site) medical research performed by contractors or (2) rapidly developing prototype infrastructure augmentations necessary to conduct such research. The former includes medical research areas of interest such as: biological defense; infectious diseases; combat casualty care; dental and biomedical research; direct energy bioeffects; environmental health; aerospace medicine; undersea medicine; tropical medicine; marrow donor program; medical modeling, simulation, and mission support; warfighter performance; epidemiology and behavioral sciences; and special focus topics such as traumatic brain injury. The latter includes large-scale research infrastructure needs critical to Navy Medicines continued progress towards its strategic objectives and addresses enterprise or other major research services, capacities, processes (e.g., FDA IND), or facilities that meet the needs of Navy Medicine research efforts.

This infrastructure could be focused on individual investigators or large groups of investigators or on disciplinary or multidisciplinary efforts. The infrastructure is intended to address the needs of researchers and scholars across the array of scholarly fields represented across Navy Medicine. Attempts to define what qualifies as research infrastructure will be imperfect and Navy Medicine will no doubt need to exercise judgment in evaluating the eligibility of individual submissions. Eligible examples may include: commercial processes (e.g., Contract Research Organizations), manufacturing (e.g., vaccine development), laboratories, major research equipment and technical staff support, repositories (e.g., tissue banking, genome repositories, artifact storage), high-end or unique computing needs (in consonance with Navy CIO direction), support staff/facilities for developing, using or maintaining equipment or laboratories, and research staff for consulting or other services (statistics, surveys, research/analysis design, biological computing). Examples not eligible are: new buildings or complete building renovations or infrastructure not related to research.