Comprehensive Cross-cutting Prevention Opportunity to Decrease Harmful Behaviors and Increase Service Member Readiness and Performance

Purpose

This solicitation, issued MTEC, represents a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) for MTEC support of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) Military Operational Medicine Research Program (MOMRP)/Joint Program Committee-5 (JPC-5). Proposals selected for award as a result of this RPP will be awarded under the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 2371b. The award(s) will be managed by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), with oversight from the Government Sponsor, JPC-5.

This Request for Project Proposals (RPP) is focused on optimizing health promotion via prevention initiatives for the military that provide education and skills, protective environments, and healthy climates and relationships in efforts to prevent various forms of violent, abusive, or harmful acts. This RPP aims to address the following cross-cutting prevention focus areas of interest:

• Focus Area #1: Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) - Use CBPR/participatory action research to enhance the military community relevance of research and to develop, assess, and sustain cross-cutting prevention that is culturally grounded in the military community(-ies).
• Focus Area #2: Measurement and Assessment - Novel methodologies to efficiently identify and/or collect short-, medium-, and long-term indicators of effectiveness of cross-cutting prevention programming.
• Focus Area #3: Effective Primary Prevention Programming - Develop and/or adapt and test primary prevention (addressing individual, relationship, team, leader, community, and/or systems-level aspects) programming for the military context.

The DoD has several gaps that need to be filled in order to have an effective evidence-based cross-cutting prevention capability (see Section 3 of the solicitation for more detail). The DoD’s ability to execute the National Defense Strategy is undermined by violent, abusive, or harmful acts completed by and against the military community. Reductions in prevalence of suicide, sexual violence, harassment, domestic abuse, alcohol and substance use, and psychological health issues are vital to the readiness of the Force. Solutions resulting from awards made as part of this RPP will provide the DoD with effective and efficient methods to implement and deliver prevention activities to maximize impact at local and organizational levels. It will also increase the resources for initiatives that have priceless impacts on these mission-degrading problems. Proposed work must be relevant to active-duty Service Members and/or military beneficiaries, and ultimately impact the greater needs of the American public.

Scope of Work

Points of Contact

For inquiries, please direct your correspondence to Biomedical Research Associate Chuck Hutti, Ph.D. at Chuck.Hutti@ati.org.