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US Department of Defense – Accelerating Innovation in Military Medicine – Anticipated Funding Opportunities for Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19)
Sponsor: US Department of Defense 		Closing Date: 07-Jun-2019
The FY19 AIMM Research Award supports highly creative and conceptually innovative high-risk research with the potential to accelerate critical discoveries or major advancements that will significantly impact military health and medicine. Pre-application and application deadlines will be available when the Program Announcement is released, which is anticipated in June 2019. This pre-announcement should not be construed as an obligation by the Government.

Focus Areas
Applications submitted to the FY19 AIMM initiative must address at least one of the three Focus Areas listed below:

• Algorithms/tools for decision support in a deployed or operational environment to: diagnose military-relevant disease, illness, or injury; prescribe mitigation and treatment strategies; and/or determine risk of Warfighter return to duty
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)/deep learning for integrating heterogeneous data streams and analysing data from wearables to support making informed healthcare decisions. Wearable sensor systems may pertain to, but are not limited to, the following or combinations of the following: infectious disease diagnosis; physiologic status monitoring; informing real-time casualty location and triage; and/or environmental monitoring
• AI/deep learning for analysing and interrogating large medical data sets to: identify patterns/predictors of disease, illness, or injury; and/or identify treatment outcomes

The following mechanism is planned for release:

AIMM Research Award
• Investigators at all academic levels
• Supports highly creative and conceptually innovative high-risk research with the potential to accelerate critical discoveries or major advancements that will significantly impact military health and medicine
• Supports novel research concepts and development of disruptive technologies as an innovative ‘leap ahead’; not intended to support incremental advances on previous or ongoing work
• Supports applied research efforts that initiate or enhance potential game-changers; clinical trials are not allowed
• Projects proposed should be relevant to at least one DoD medical research program area. Cross-cutting research projects with the potential to benefit multiple DoD medical research program areas are highly encouraged.
• Applications that will accelerate research toward innovations applicable to multi-domain operations and multi-domain operations in dense urban environments are encouraged, but not required
• Preliminary data that are relevant to the proposed research are encouraged, but not required
• Preproposal is required; application submission is by invitation only
• Maximum funding of USD $350,000 for direct costs (plus indirect costs)
• Maximum period of performance is 18 months

Key Dates
Pre-application and application deadlines will be available when the Program Announcement is released, which is anticipated in June 2019.

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to make contact with the UQR&I international team (via internationalgrants@research.uq.edu.au) to discuss possible applications.
Website: http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2019/19dmrdp-aimmpreann

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