Attachment 3: USAFSAM Statement of Objectives Amendment 1

FA2384-24-S-2233,
Amendment 01
Attachment 3

Continuing Human Enabling, Enhancing, Restoring, and Sustaining (CHEERS) Multiple Authority Announcement (MAA) Technical Requirements - Statement of Objectives (SOO)
United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

1.0 Background

The Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) is one of the mission units within the 711th Human Performance Wing (711HPW). The USAFSAM mission is to ensure ready Airmen, ready Guardians, and ready Medics in any environment, and is composed of globally recognized experts in Aerospace and Operational Medicine. This expertise is leveraged to provide relevant operational medical solutions that support current and future DoD missions by anticipating and meeting the future demands of the Air Force Aerospace Operational Medicine Enterprise (AOME), through a combination of consultation, education and training, and knowledge generation through Studies & Analysis (S&A), and research, within the areas of Aerospace Medicine, En Route Care, Occupational and Environmental Health, and Public Health and Preventative Medicine. These focus areas typically align with the USAFSAM departments.

2.0 Technical Requirements

The AOME seeks to maximize Airman performance and readiness, as well as the development of mitigation measures for physical and psychological stressors, illness and injuries during Airman training and operations by executing S&A as well as R&D studies. Focus areas for these studies can be broadly categorized into the following areas of interest for both S&A as well as R&D: Aerospace Medicine and Physiology, Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Bioenvironmental Engineering, and En Route Care/Expeditionary Medicine/Prolonged Field Care. Collectively, these areas can be referred to as the AOME. S&A studies must be appropriate for one-year (12 month), short- term investigations and not be basic research.
Submitted white papers and/or proposals should target specific research challenges and exactly identify the technical requirement(s) (by nomenclature below) to which the white paper/proposal aligns.

2.1 Aerospace Medicine and Physiology

2.1.1 Aerospace Physiology: Solutions relating to physiologic assessment of aircrew in high altitude Fighters/Trainers.
2.1.1.1 Assessments of the physiologic response to exposures and stressors from the fighter/trainer environment; can cover any of the following: including effects of fluctuating