Sponsor Notices

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
ARRA-Funded Comparative Effectiveness Research Projects
Notice of Intent

Funding Opportunity Announcements soliciting research grant applications for CER will provide $148 million for evidence generation. This includes $100 million for the Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness (CHOICE), a new, coordinated, national effort to establish a series of prospective pragmatic clinical
comparative effectiveness studies that measure the benefits treatments produce in routine clinical practice and will include novel study designs focusing on real-world and under-represented populations (children, elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, and other
understudied populations), and $48 million for the establishment or enhancement of national patient registries that can be used for researching the longitudinal effects of different interventions and collecting data on under-represented populations. Additional grant funding is expected to include $29.5 million to support innovative translation and dissemination grants related to CER, as well as $20 million to support training and career development in CER. Requests for Contracts for CER will provide $9.5 million to
establish an infrastructure to identify new and/or emerging issues for comparative effectiveness review investments. Also, $10 million will establish a Citizen's Forum to formally engage all stakeholders, and to expand and standardize public involvement in the entire Effective Health Care enterprise. Additionally, AHRQ anticipates supporting other grants ($1 million) and enhancing existing contracts for evidence synthesis ($50 million),
evidence generation ($24 million), translation and dissemination ($5 million), and salary and benefits for ARRA-related full-time equivalent positions ($3 million). DATES: AHRQ anticipates grant and contract solicitations to be published beginning in the fall, 2009, with funding to commence in spring, 2010.

Department of Energy
Integrated Cyber Defense & Support Technologies
Response Date: see full announcement

This BAA is a contracting tool directly responsive to Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Focused Long Term Challenge (FLTC) 5's Integrated Cyber Defense attribute. Proactively defend cyberspace by anticipating and avoiding threats through understanding the cyber situation, predicting adversarial actions, assessing potential impacts, and by implementing deterrence and effects based defensive methodologies. Detect and defeat threats and protect information systems by engagement and influence through defensive mechanisms employing such methods as adversary denial and deception. Adaptively maintain, organize, and automatically regenerate and reconstitute resources to ensure continued mission operations. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate is soliciting whitepapers for FLTC focus areas and Computer Network, Defense & Support.

Department of the Army
10--RFI on Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning and Awareness (COBRA)
Response Date: November 10, 2009

Collaborative Battlespace Reasoning and Awareness (COBRA) is a new advanced technology objective demonstration (ATO-D) commencing in FYO9. There are three participating organizations, CERDEC Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD), CERDEC Command and Control Directorate (C2D) and ERDC Topographical Engineering Center (TEC) with unique execution requirements teamed to provide a unified advanced operating capability supporting cross community applications and software services for the integration and synchronization of Intelligence (G2/S2) and Operations (G3/S3) information requirements. CERDEC I2WD is interested in receiving information on enterprise sensor management tools which allow for cross echelon, multi-domain sensor discovery, capability, status/SA, location, OPCON/ADCON, tasking and re-tasking for both ground based and airborne sensors. Additionally, modeling and simulation (M & S) of sensors for near-real time applications, such as mission planning, are desired. Efforts should focus on accurate & expeditious solutions vs. mapping and displays; it is anticipated that a universal mapping product inclusive of environmental parameters will be developed independently and provided for use by sensor M&S tools. CERDEC I2WD is also interested in receiving information on Enterprise Services and Applications to support extraction of relevant Blue Force information for INTEL analysis as well as priority information requirements (PIR) management tools and services for servicing commanders request for information (RFI) requirements.