WINGS™--Web-Interfaced Nanotechnology ESH Guidance System for Force Health Protection

Luna Innovations proposes the development of a novel Web-Interfaced Nanotechnology Environmental Safety and Health (ESH) Guidance System—WINGS™—that will provide Air Force personnel with streamlined access to strategies and tools for managing emerging ESH risks and for exchanging vital information throughout a community of approved peers and ‘trusted’ resources. Comprehensive guidance modules, based in part on innovative ESH ‘best practices’ management strategies developed and implemented by Luna Innovations and the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), will be compiled and made accessible to AF personnel through WINGS, along with a host of other novel features and tools designed to facilitate informed and streamlined ESH management. The Luna and UDRI management frameworks were developed by leading nanotechnology and ESH researchers for use in distinctly different commercial and academic settings, and thus address a broad spectrum of issues likely to occur in virtually any facility where engineered nanomaterials are handled. Many regard the Luna and UDRI models as the first programs to offer comprehensive management strategies that have had their effectiveness demonstrated in actual practice. Throughout Phase I the team will define and prioritize specific ESH data gaps to address during Phase II through targeted scientific studies.