---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 7381"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "7381"
heading: "Office of Research and Development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/7381"
units:
  - "Part V — Boards, Administrations, and Services"
  - "Chapter 73 — Veterans Health Administration—organization and Functions"
  - "Subchapter V — Research and Development"
---

# §7381. Office of Research and Development

- (a) **Office of Research and Development.—** There is in the [Veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) Health Administration an Office of Research and Development (in this section referred to as the “Office”).
- (b) **Purposes.—** The function of the Office is to serve [veterans](/usc/38/101.md?p=2) through a full spectrum of research (including pre-clinical, clinical, and health systems science), technology transfer, and application.
- (c) **Chief Research and Development Officer.—** The head of the Office is the Chief Research and Development Officer.
- (d) **Organization and Personnel.—** The Office shall be organized in such manner, and its personnel shall perform such duties and have such titles, as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may prescribe.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. U, title I, § 182(a), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5436.)