Solicitation
Systems for Phenotypic Evaluation, Clinical Trajectories, Response, and Agency (SPECTRA)
Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health · Sol. ARPA-H-SOL-26-163
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ARPA-H, the federal health research agency, is soliciting proposals for SPECTRA, a research program on autism trajectories across the lifespan. It also wants technologies that extend assessment beyond the clinic and improve everyday function and quality of life. The notice text is a short program description only.
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What they want
- Identify and act on autism trajectories from the prenatal period through aging
- Study how genetic, biological, behavioral, iatrogenic and environmental factors interact over time
- Develop technologies that extend reliable assessment beyond the clinic
- Develop tools that improve everyday communication, function, and quality of life
- Place of performance
- USA
- Offers due
- 2026-10-18T17:00:00-04:00
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Key facts
- Response due
- Oct 18, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
- Notice type
- Solicitation
- Solicitation
- ARPA-H-SOL-26-163
- Agency
- Department of Health and Human Services · National Institutes of Health
- Office
- Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H)
- NAICS
- 541715
- Product/service code
- AN13
- Business type
- Engineering, architecture & research
- Contracting contact
- SPECTRA TeamSPECTRA@arpa-h.gov
Full notice text from SAM.gov
SPECTRA will identify and act on autism trajectories, the evolving developmental paths individuals follow across the lifespan from the prenatal period through aging, spanning autism characteristics, co-occurring conditions, and functional outcomes together with the genetic, biological, behavioral, iatrogenic (medical influences), environmental factors and their nonlinear interactions. Rather than examining these factors in isolation, SPECTRA will examine how they combine and interact, including their nonlinear interactions, to produce autism and its co-occurring conditions over time. SPECTRA will also develop technologies that serve two purposes at once: extending reliable assessment beyond the clinic while improving everyday communication, function, and quality of life. The same tools people use to live more fully will also generate the data that drive measurement and personalized care.
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