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The purpose of this SBIR topic is to improve upon haptics devices and integrate them with synthetic (virtual/augmented/mixed reality, or xR) training environments to train hands-on medical procedures to novice trainees with limited medical experience. This will provide medical trainees realistic and anatomically accurate tactile feedback from xR haptic devices, improving training value by building ...

The proposed AeroQUEST extensions would enhance measurement opportunities for behavioral, physiological, and cognitive status of participants at the individual and team levels. These measurements would form the basis of enriched personalized feedback that is above and beyond current capabilities. A specific joint exercise has been identified for testing, which involves the US Naval Academy and US ...

Information regarding the state of Warfighters (e.g., fatigue, distraction, stress) and of the team (e.g., cohesion) can greatly impact mission planning and the likelihood of mission success. Harnessing neural data collected via functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) can be a game-changing tool for assessing individual and team states, but current technologies do not support continuous neur ...

The greatest challenge with the protein therapeutic options in development for the treatment of COVID-19 is deployment. Currently these medicines require clinical infrastructure to deploy, are intravenously infused over hours, and have moderate to poor shelf-life stability. Elektrofi’s drug delivery technology (Elektroject™), coupled with these therapeutics could obviate, in many cases, the ne ...

The Tactile Orientation GArment (TOGA) will be integrated with tactile cueing devices in a flexible wearable garment to reduce aviation mishaps by non-visually enhancing and preserving aircrew situation awareness (SA) through the mitigation of spatial disorientation (SD) – a potentially deadly condition that results from loss of visual references, physiological responses to gravitoinertial force ...

The fNIRS product is a non-invasive neuroimaging device that measures real-time changes in the concentration of oxygenated and de-oxygenated hemoglobin.  When sensors are placed at multiple places on the prefrontal cortex, the device measures changes blood oxygenation levels that can help determine various important parameters such as cognitive loading (amount of mental effort required to perform ...

81.1% of MEDEVAC in OIF/OEF were due to non-battle injury related injury with musculoskeletal injuries as leading cause. Many of these injuries will need to be managed in the operational environment without MEDEVAC. Future multi-domain battle operations against peer/near-peer adversaries will restrict MEDEVAC of injured warfighters necessitating care closer to the point of injury. Triton will deve ...

Advances such as mid-air refueling have extended mission profiles for naval aviation creating challenges for managing essential bodily functions such as waste elimination. Prolonged exposure of skin and mucous membranes to moisture can lead to growth of bacteria that can cause urinary tract infections and other medical issues. Triton Systems will continue the development of an undergarment that in ...

A major threat to U.S. personnel stationed abroad are high levels of toxins that may be present in the local food supply as a result of unregulated pesticide use and the prevalence of toxic industrial chemicals and heavy metals in the environment.Rapid analytical methods are needed that are capable of identifying these threats in food at levels that exceed military exposure guidelines.Triton Syste ...

The vestibular system is an essential element of human balance, which is critical to proper stance and gait. An impaired vestibular system can cause debilitating dizziness or loss of balance leading to dangerous falls and an inability to perform normal activities of daily living. Vestibular dysfunction is both a hallmark of acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) and also a long-term problem with consi ...