Wearable Integrated Sensor Platform for Force Health Protection

This Phase I proposal is titled Wearable Integrated Sensor Platform for Force Health Protection and directly relates to the Navy/DOD need for improved physiological awareness for improved Decision-making, Health Outcomes and Performance. It directly leverages an open advanced sensor platform third-party supporting additional sensor integration, analytics, and multimodal data fusion to support the monitoring of physiology, exposures, and performance of DoD personnel in tactical and in-garrison/domestic environments. Our objective with this Phase I proposal is to undertake a Requirements Analysis to explore the needs, gaps, and requirements for a wearable personnel physiological monitoring, as well as to investigate technical alternatives and tradeoffs in order to develop a prototype of candidate capabilities to demonstrate Technical Feasibility.  The goal of the project is to understand the capabilities required and to document them along with modes of operation, dynamics, features, and other requirements and to validate initial feasibility of these capabilities. A future Phase II proposal would then produce more advanced, fieldable prototypes addressing these needs; enable the future integration of the resulting device into DOD/DHA systems if desired; develop and demonstrate capabilities to minimize or eliminate Heat Stress Injuries; investigate and perform certifications as required including animal and human studies under IRB approvals if desired; conduct test and evaluation via field trials of the device in operational contexts; and create a Transition Plan to enable DOD/Navy and commercial acquisition of the product resulting from this effort.