CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical Areas
Funds white papers under a narrower experimental-purchase authority inside the Air Force's CHEERS human-performance research strategy.
The same CHEERS plan sits behind this solicitation as behind its Open Period 1 sibling, but this one buys under a different, narrower legal authority.
White papers, and potentially proposals after them, go against the same Statements of Objectives, but only for efforts that meet 10 USC 4023 — a statute letting the military buy ordnance, signal, chemical-activity, transportation, energy, medical, …
Human-performance and aerospace-medicine research procured as experimental or test-purpose buys under 10 USC 4023 — limited to ordnance, signal, chemical-activity, transportation, energy, medical, space-flight, telecommunications and aeronautical supplies — against the Statements of Objectives attached to the CHEERS Multiple Authority Announcement.
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