Sleep, performance, and cognition enhancement program (space program): sleep restoration to optimize warfighter readiness and performance

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences awarded a $177,201 cooperative agreement to The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. on December 1, 2025 under the Uniformed Services University Medical Research Projects program (CFDA 12.750) to support the Sleep, Performance, and Cognition Enhancement (SPACE) Program, which funds sleep restoration to optimize warfighter readiness and performance.

The award runs through November 30, 2026 with place of performance in Westlake, Maryland. The foundation, a non-profit research organization headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, serves as the prime recipient and delivers military medical research, clinical studies, and healthcare technology development to DOD and related federal agencies. The foundation's recent federal portfolio concentrates on infectious disease countermeasures, traumatic brain injury diagnostics and treatment, post-traumatic stress disorder interventions, casualty care innovation, and deployment health research, anchored by cooperative agreements and project grants from the Uniformed Services University and Defense Health Agency. The foundation administers grant sub-awards to leading research universities and specialized research organizations including Tufts, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, and RTI International.