Proposers’ Day Announcement for Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)/Proactive Health Office (PHO)
Proposers’ Day notice for the ARPA-H REST program, which is a federal contracting opportunity tied to developing health-enhancing sleep interventions and technologies.
⚑ Special Notice / Proposers' Day; not itself the funding solicitation · Applicant restrictions: federal contract · No set-aside used · Actual eligibility and submission rules should be confirmed in the follow-on solicitation
This is an ARPA-H sleep/biomedical health opportunity, which is mostly outside IPPRA’s core program of risk communication, weather/hazard perception, energy, and policy survey research. The team could maybe touch it only through behavioral methods, but it is not a plausible PI-level fit for this group.
JUDGED AGAINST THE ROSTER'S PUBLICATION DOSSIER · GPT-5.4-MINI · 2026-07-07
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 65 good | technical depth: substantial; funds applied research |
| IPPRA | 58 good | portfolio topic: public_health (primary); signature methods: surveys longitudinal; social/behavioral work is substantial; funds applied research; eligibility unclear — verify in the NOFO; biomedical core — IPPRA health lane is communication/crisis/policy (capped); clinical-trial/biomedical core — IPPRA angle is policy/community (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 45 partial | funds applied research; prototyping/demonstration stage; deep-tech content |
Description
This Special Notice (SN) is intended to notify the proposer community of a Proposers’ Day (PD) associated with the Restorative & health-Enhancing Sleep Time (REST) program under the Proactive Health Office (PHO) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).
Eligibility
Applicant restrictions (federal contract). Set-aside: No Set aside used. Notice type: Special Notice. Organization: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF / NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH / ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY FOR HEALTH (ARPA-H).
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