Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining (CHEERS)

Quick Summary

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL/RH) and the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) have issued a Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring and Sustaining (CHEERS) Multiple Authority Announcement (MAA), categorized as a Special Notice. This MAA serves as an overarching strategy to solicit Science & Technology (S&T) and Studies & Analysis (S&A) proposals, progressing from basic research to technology maturation and transition. No proposals are requested at this time under the MAA itself; individual solicitations will be released. The MAA is anticipated to be unrestricted, with small businesses encouraged to participate.

Scope of Work

The CHEERS MAA covers a broad range of human-centered research and development efforts across AFRL/RH and USAFSAM. Key technical areas include:

• Airman Biosciences: Force health protection, human health and performance, aeromedical evacuation, aerospace medicine, bioeffects, and human performance augmentation.
• Bioeffects: Protection against and exploitation of battlefield environmental stressors, including directed energy bioeffects modeling and simulation.
• Warfighter Interactions & Readiness: Human-machine integration, warfighter cognition optimization, team performance, distributed teaming, human-autonomy collaboration, and learning technologies.
• Aerospace Operational Medicine Enterprise (AOME): Maximizing Airman performance and readiness, developing mitigation for physical and psychological stressors, including aerospace medicine and physiology, public health, preventative medicine, occupational medicine, bioenvironmental engineering, and en route/expeditionary medicine.

Contract Details

• Type: This MAA allows for various contract instruments, including FAR-based contracts (anticipated Cost Plus Fixed Fee), grants, cooperative agreements, commercial contracts, Other Transactions for Research (OTRs), and Other Transactions for Prototype (OTPs).
• Set-Aside: Anticipated unrestricted, with small businesses encouraged.
• NAICS: 541715 (Research and Technology in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), with a small business size standard of 1,000 employees.
• Place of Performance: Primarily Dayton, OH, with research conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, and Joint Base San Antonio, TX.

Submission & Evaluation

• NO PROPOSALS ARE REQUESTED AT THIS TIME under this MAA. Potential offerors must monitor SAM.gov for individual solicitations, which will detail specific objectives, white paper/proposal due dates, and submission instructions.
• Individual solicitations may utilize one-step or two-step approaches, requiring white papers or full proposals.
• Evaluation criteria will focus on technical approach, understanding of scope, innovation, and affordability.
• Key attachments include an Industry Guide, Technical Requirements Statements of Objectives (SOOs), and various appendices for personnel and security.

Important Updates & Moratoriums

• Moratoriums are in effect for specific technical areas under Solicitation FA2384-24-S-2334:
  • Holistic Models for Decision-Making LOE 1 (Technical Area 3.3.2.2.1.1): Closed for 6 months as of April 24, 2026.
  • Information Mastery in Cognitive Warfare LOE 2 (Technical Area 3.3.2.2.1.2): Closed for 6 months as of October 30, 2025.
  • BRDEE (Technical Area 3.2): Closed for 6 months as of April 13, 2025.
• Open Solicitations: As of November 20, 2025, three 2-step solicitations are open: FA238424S2334 (BAA), FA238424S2335 (ARA), and FA238424S2336 (CSO). The latest tracker (April 8, 2026) also lists FA2384-25-S-B003, FA2384-25-S-B007, and FA2384-26-S-B001.

Contact Information

General questions may be directed to AFRL.711HPW.MAA@us.af.mil. Technical questions should be directed to the technical POCs identified in individual solicitations.