Funder: Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Enhanced White Paper)
Funding Amounts: Topic-specific funding: approximately $1.5M–$3M for musculoskeletal projects; $10.5M total for exposure monitoring; up to $635,000 for the biomarker platform
Summary: Supports military-relevant medical prototypes and knowledge products that improve service member readiness and battlefield care.
Key Information: Prime applicants must be MTEC members in good standing at least three days before submission.
Description
MTEC’s Multi-Topic Request for Project Proposals supports medical prototype technologies and knowledge solutions developed in partnership with the Department of Defense, the Defense Health Agency, and other government sponsors. Proposed solutions may include medical techniques, knowledge products, devices, drugs, and biologics. The program seeks to modernize military medical capabilities, preserve force readiness, and improve care in future conflicts, including austere or contested environments with limited resources and delayed evacuation.
Topics span harmful-behavior prevention, physical fitness, help-seeking, wound infection, sepsis, infectious diseases, musculoskeletal injury, pain, anesthesia, blast exposure, and trauma-related organ failure. Projects must have preliminary data rather than be exploratory research. Awards use Other Transaction authority for prototype projects, rather than conventional assistance grants.
