Medical Program-Wide Activities

Abstract

The DHA receives funding for research infrastructure management support at select continental United States and outside the continental US laboratories and clinical trial sites; work is done in collaboration with DoD Military Treatment Facilities. This program element does not fund research. It funds the infrastructure support staff enabling research scientists to conduct bio-surveillance and early-to-late-stage clinical investigations into biologics, drugs, protectants, device technologies, and knowledge products. The funding provides for the sustainment of technical subject matter expertise, independent of the number of assigned projects, and the costs related to the initial outfitting and transition (IO&T) of research, development, test, and evaluation medical laboratories funded under multi-year military construction (MILCON) projects. These IO&T funds are designated as appropriations other than MILCON. The DHA also receives funding for the Management Headquarters Activity (MHA) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE) functions incident to the local operation and management research activities. For the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, this program element includes facility operational funding for the Medical Biological Defense research sub-function of the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD). The program mission is mandated by the Joint Requirements Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JRO-CBRND) baseline capabilities assessment of chemical and biological passive defense. The primary function is research on countermeasures to biological threat agents, development of assays to detect biological threat agents, and bio-forensic analysis of biological threat agents.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0606105DHA_2_0130_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Defense Health Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Health Agency

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aviation Medicine
  • Biological Warfare
  • Biomedical Research
  • Casualties
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Clinical Trials
  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Dengue
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Financial Management
  • Government Employees
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Laboratories
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • United States

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  • Clinical Trial Research.
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.

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