Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater (MSAT)

Abstract

This report documents the successful execution of the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) responsibilities as Executing Activity for the Medical Situational Awareness in the Theater (MSAT) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD). The MSAT Implementation Directive (ID) (January 05) directed, &The Commanding General, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) will be the Executing Agent and will appoint and provide oversight to the Technical Manager (TM). USAMRMC will establish a Joint Program Office (JPO) to manage and administer the accountabilities of this ACTD& Under USAMRMC leadership, the JPO and TM responsibilities have been executed to the standards of Department of Defense (DOD) acquisition and ethical regulations and guidance. This report includes all USAMRMC actions through 31 December 06 and serves as a close-out document of the Command s TM responsibilities. In response to a decrement in funding, the MSAT Oversight Group (OSG) in October 06 assigned TM responsibilities to the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) and JPO management to the MSAT Operational Manager (OM). While no longer providing technical management, USAMRMC will continue to support the effort by managing a portion of project funds and contract support. Under USAMRMC leadership, the first MSAT developmental spiral produced a highly successful prototype that was evaluated during the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) Exercise Cobra Gold 06 (CG06). The US I Corps Surgeon, acting as the CG06 Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) Deputy Surgeon, stated, &For a first fielding of this emerging technology, MSAT was a home run& Additionally, as noted in the Interim Military Utility Assessment (IMUA) conducted by USPACOM, & MSAT has the potential to provide the combatant commander, JTF surgeons, and other operational headquarters with a medical COP that is not available to the domains used by the warfighting counterparts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2007
Accession Number
ADB326264

Entities

People

  • Robert Defraites

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Military Medicine
  • Situational Awareness
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States European Command
  • United States Northern Command
  • United States Pacific Command
  • Warfare

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