SafeGuard: Personalized Health & Safety Oversight at Scale

The global operations of the United States Air Force are critical to national security. Although the advancement and proliferation of domains such as robotics and artificial intelligence are lessening our Nation’s reliance on human staffing, many operations still require servicemembers to perform arduous tasks and train within environments that expose them to various physical, cognitive, and environmental stressors and risks. These stressors present both acute and chronic dangers, and unfortunately, fatalities have occurred in the recent past. Despite the cruciality of these tasks and the Airmen’s status the most important asset of the USAF, there is a considerable lack of technology to quantify, personalize, and predict human health and safety risks in these environments and tasks. To address this need, Sentinel will extend its SafeGuard platform for mission-critical USAF operations to provide personalized and proactive health and safety monitoring to Airmen in challenging operational and training environments. Specific examples of such environments, tasks, and associated risk factors include confined spaces operations, heat stress and overexertion, lone warfighter operations and training, noise exposure, pilot health monitoring, and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives (CBRNE) exposure.