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Hearing Enhancement through ARtificially Intelligent NeurotechnoloGy (HEARING) - Proposers' Day
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF · Special Notice · SAM_GOV
AI-Readiness Score
8/25
Pathway Speed
1/5
Timeline Realism
3/5
Problem Framing
1/5
AI / ML Fit
3/5
Award + Transition
0/5
Posted May 8, 2026Set-aside: No Set aside usedNAICS 541715
Description
https://api.sam.gov/prod/opportunities/v1/noticedesc?noticeid=16b2cd89ff8c4b219b889cf1ce4bfa6c
Score Rationale
This is a Proposers' Day notice — a pre-solicitation event, not an actual award vehicle — meaning there is no confirmed pathway, ceiling, or transition mechanism whatsoever, scoring zero on award/transition. The Special Notice instrument under HHS is a standard FAR-adjacent pathway with no OT or fast-track authority indicated, and the description URL is inaccessible, leaving problem framing almost entirely undefined beyond the acronym title. The AI/ML fit earns a modest 3 because hearing enhancement via neurotech is a legitimately AI-shaped domain (signal processing, neural decoding, anomaly detection in auditory data), but without a real solicitation document, success criteria, data availability, or end-user specification, this cannot score higher on framing or transition.