CHEERS Open Period 2 - All Technical Areas
Federal funding opportunity FA238424S2335 from Air Force -- Research Lab (Department of Defense).
Apply on Grants.gov →Application closes September 30, 2027
- Posted
- August 7, 2025
- Closes
- September 30, 2027
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant, Other, Procurement Contract
- Assistance listing
- 12.800
- Archives
- October 30, 2027
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 12.800 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.
- FY2024 obligated
- $776.5M
- FY2025 obligated
- $577.1M
- FY2026 (to date) obligated
- $524.8M
- Awards in window
- 2,643
Top recipients: National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, Flextech Alliance, Inc., Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Cornell University
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed July 2026
Synopsis
The Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH) and the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), is soliciting white papers (and potentially later technical and cost proposals) on the research located in the Continuing Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining (CHEERS) Multiple Authority Announcement (MAA) Statements of Objectives, FA238424S2233.
This Solicitation is limited to those efforts that meet the requirements of 10 USC 4023, which includes the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may each buy ordnance, signal, chemical activity, transportation, energy, medical, space- flight, telecommunications, and aeronautical supplies, including parts and accessories, and designs thereof, that the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned considers necessary for experimental or test purposes in the development of the best supplies that are needed for the national defense.
List of Attachments:
1. "Open Period Solicitation 1_ARA Amend 01"
2. "Attachment 1 - List of Provisions and Clauses (ARA)"
Related Notice: Multiple Authority Announcement (MAA) FA238424S2233, "Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining (CHEERS)"
Note: You MUST refer to the related notice identified above in order to obtain all additional attachments referenced herein (e.g. CHEERS Industry Guide, Statements of Objectives (SOO), and S&T Protection Appendices)
Who can apply
- Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
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