COVID-19: A Global Issue, a Shared Goal

Published on May 28, 2025

MTEC is investing over $50 million to accelerate innovative solutions to combat COVID-19, including wearable symptom-detection sensors, non-hospital therapeutics, and tele-critical care tools.

Research Highlight

In this time of uncertainty, MTEC has been tirelessly working on a number of fronts to accelerate the development of needed solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the global effort to counteract its spread, we have issued three solicitations to date that will support the country’s response to the pandemic. In total, we plan to award more than $50 million in the fight against the virus. Solicitations we’ve issued include Requests for Proposals that seek to:

Develop wearable sensors to detect early symptoms of coronavirus;
Identify therapeutic treatments for COVID-19 to be used in a non-hospital setting; and
Refine tele-critical care solutions to support local, regional, and ultimately national COVID-19 care and situational awareness.

These efforts have been highlighted on CNN, Military.com, and NEXTGOV.

MTEC is determined in our resolve to identify the very best solutions to the multiple challenges COVID-19 presents, and to deliver funding to those solutions as fast as possible.