BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

This Program Element is budgeted in the applied research budget activity because it focuses on medical related technology, information, processes, materials, systems, and devices encompassing a broad spectrum of DoD challenges. Bio-warfare defense includes the capability to predict and deflect evolution of natural and engineered emerging pathogen threats, and therapeutics that increase survivability within days of receipt of an unknown pathogen. Continued understanding of infection biomarkers will lead to development of detection devices that can be self-administered and provide a faster ability to diagnose and prevent widespread infection in-theater. Other battlefield technologies include a soldier-portable hemostatic wound treatment system, capability to manufacture field-relevant pharmaceuticals in theater, and a rapid after-action review of field events as a diagnostic tool for improving the delivery of medical care and medical personnel protection. Improved medical imaging will be approached through new physical properties of cellular metabolic activities. New neural interface technologies will reliably extract information from the nervous system to enable control of the best robotic prosthetic-limb technology. To allow medical practitioners the capability to visualize and comprehend the complex relationships across patient data in the electronic medical record systems, technologies will be developed to assimilate and analyze large amounts of data and provide tools to make better-informed decisions for patient care. In the area of medical training, new simulation-based tools will rapidly teach increased competency in an open and scalable architecture to be used by all levels of medical personnel for basic and advanced training. Advanced information-based techniques will be developed to supplement warfighter healthcare and the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This project will also pursue applied research efforts for dialysis-like therapeutics.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0602115E_2_0400_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2013: Decrease reflects Congressional reductions for Sections 3001 & 3004, sequestration adjustments, and the SBIR/STTR transfer offset by reprogrammings. FY 2015: Decrease reflects the end of the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Anxiety Disorders
• Biomedical Technology
• Brain Injuries
• Detection
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Diseases And Disorders
• Infection
• Medical Personnel
• Patient Care
• Physical Properties
• Prosthetics
• Therapy
• Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Wound Infections

Fields of Study

• Medicine

Readers

• Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Medicine.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Biotechnology
• Microelectronics