Core Force Health Protection R&D - Aerospace Medicine/Human Performance Focus (AF)
Abstract
This project area conducts research to identify, evaluate and control occupational hazards in the workplace-including all settings such as deployed, in the aircraft, in the industrial (in garrison) environment or during emergency response. Information gained means risks are more fully understood with respect to potential mission impact or long-term health effect (Go vs. No Go above some pre-defined hazard level). Key focus areas include a better understanding of dosing, rates of dosing, and mechanistic effects of chemical, biological, radiological, directed energy, and other occupational exposure threats. This includes subtle cognitive effects where there is potential mission impact. Technological opportunities towards non-invasive sensing of the human and the environment are growing and can be exploited to enhance understanding of the risks and enable development of appropriate mitigation and treatment options. Improve the early detection, real time prediction of bioenvironmental impact, disease outbreak and intervention, data analytics and information sharing. Develop and demonstrate the rapid transition of analytics tools that convert a multitude of health related data sources into actionable information based on operational context. This will support quick decision targeting of health environmental threats, disease outbreaks, and training and operational assessment alternatives. Major focal areas include: environmental, health history and physiological.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- d703f5ef6375df765ea9dca41131c9f3