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CHEERS Open Period 1 - All Technical Areas

Funds white papers under a standard Broad Agency Announcement inside the Air Force's CHEERS human-performance research strategy.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate and School of Aerospace Medicine keep a standing plan, CHEERS, for moving human-performance research toward fielded capability. This solicitation is the ordinary-authority half of how they buy into it.

It runs as a two-step Broad Agency Announcement: a white paper first, against the Statements of Objectives attached to the parent…

Human-performance and aerospace-medicine research and technology maturation submitted as white papers against the Statements of Objectives attached to the CHEERS Multiple Authority Announcement, under standard Broad Agency Announcement authority, across all technical areas the parent notice names.

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Last verified: 25 Aug 2026Funder reference: FA238424S2334Source: www.grants.gov