Assistance program
Military Medical Research and Development
$10.8 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Dept of the Army, Dept of Defense
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements;Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 12.420
- What it does
- Through the support of basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research: (1) to transform health care for Service Members and the American public through innovative and impactful research; (2) to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield with a focus on various areas of biomedical research, including military infectious diseases, combat casualty care, military operational medicine, medical chemical and biological defense, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, blast injury and regenerative medicine; and (3) to fund novel approaches to biomedical research in response to the expressed needs of Congress.
- Who benefits
- Federal, State, and local governments; public, State, and private institutions of higher education, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal government, U.S. territory or possession, small business, profit organization, private nonprofit institution/organization, quasi-public nonprofit institution/organization, other private institution/organizations, and Native American organizations.
- Who applies
- Federal, State, and local governments; public, State, and private institutions of higher education, Federally Recognized Indian Tribal government, U.S. territory or possession, small business, profit organization, private nonprofit institution/organization, quasi-public nonprofit institution/organization, other private institution/organizations, and Native American organizations. Awards are not made to individuals.
- Authorized by
- 10 U.S.C. § 4001
- Defense Health Program
- Program site
- https://usamraa.health.mil/Pages/Main01.aspx ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$10.8B
100%
Other
$20.8M
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments