Integrated Warfighter Biodefense Program (IWBP) - Next Phase
Abstract
The aim of the Integrated Warfighter Biodefense Program (IWBP) is to develop innovative technology that can be deployed to prevent U.S. armed forces from becoming battle or non-battle casualties, and especially to reduce morbidity and mortality throughout the increasingly complex battlespace of current operations. In this summary of the next phase of work on IWBP we report the continued development of novel software that provides a simulation environment for modeling mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), as an example of a chronic disease of great interest to the military medical community. In addition, we report on conceptual advances of our Pattern Based Discovery platform to deal with unsupervised pattern discovery. This capability is critical for gaining situational awareness in environments where an a priori target cannot be defined. Next, we discuss Optimizing Multi-Ship, Multi-Mission Operational Planning that also serves as a template for other complex operational planning scenarios, and provides a natural fit for QLI Modeling, Simulation and Optimization technologies. Finally, we conclude with a summary description of the development of a reliable model for cognitive readiness assessment using multiple modalities of sensors and the adaptation of the model from groups to individuals in specific tasking environments. In this work, we combined subjective ratings, user profiles, ECG and eye tracking to predict the user workload and other metrics of assessing readiness of warfighters within a time window of seconds.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 10, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA552393
Entities
People
- Franklin T. Abbott
- Ganesh Vaidyanathan