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A critical need has been identified during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide research tools for investigators across the world. For example, investigators are developing and fielding new survey items assessing various COVID-19 specific domains such as symptoms, knowledge and attitudes, adherence to various mitigation behaviors, as well as socioeconomic impacts. The National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program (https://dr2.nlm.nih.gov/) leads the nation in fostering improvements in processes, frameworks, and infrastructure for executing timely and complex research responses to disasters and emerging threats, including pandemics. The NIH is utilizing the DR2 network of scientists and website to collate and host a collection of tools to minimize the proliferation of one-off survey items, encourage comparisons across samples, and facilitate data integration and collaboration. These tools assist researchers in rapidly developing COVID-19 related research protocols for new or existing cohorts. Early in the COVID-19 response, DR2 organized meetings and correspondence across NIH Institutes and Centers to coordinate a process for tool collection and dissemination. Utilizing nimble and responsive teams, they rapidly redesigned the website to highlight COVID-19 related resources and provide a method for researchers to submit tools for inclusion in the database, establish a common set of domains for refined searchability, and offer links to specific items for quick access. In parallel to standing up a library of COVID-19 specific tools, NIH DR2 is leading a long-term effort to prepare common data elements, automated rapid study development systems, electronic data capture platforms, and technical support teams to support quick implementation of research for future disasters. This presentation will describe how DR2 organized its response to COVID-19, provide a demonstration of the tool repository, discuss lessons learned, and lay out long-range plans.