The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Force Health Protection pillar of the Future Naval Capability program develops science and technology solutions including new practices, procedures, medical devices and pharmaceuticals for the improvement of personnel performance, casualty prevention and combat casualty care. Some important results of this program include decreasing the logistical burden of forward medical operations, mitigation and prevention of combat-related illness and injury, and providing cutting-edge medical applications for our Navy and Marine Corps warfighters on land, at sea and in the air. Solutions from diverse areas such as biological/physiological, computational, behavioral sciences and engineering disciplines are encouraged. The objective is to mature basic research concepts into prototype devices, treatments, protocols and software/hardware applications that can be transitioned to the fleet to prevent, mitigate and treat tomorrow's warfighter.
Force Health Protection Enabling Capabilities
- Casualty Prevention: Injury prediction modeling and simulation tools; POC: Dr. Tim Bentley, timothy.b.bentley@navy.mil
- Advanced Forward Care: Closed-loop systems for casualty monitoring and care and oxygen generation technologies; POC: Dr. Mike Given, michael.given@navy.mil
- Rapid Blood Treatment: Methods of pharmacologic resuscitation and development of hemostatic agents; POC: Dr. Mike Given, michael.given@navy.mil
- Warfighter Restoration: Prevention of noise-induced hearing loss through personal monitoring and protective equipment development, mitigation strategies and treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, potential applications for the mitigation of repetitive neurotrauma, and wound healing/repair applications; POC: Cmdr. Katie Shobe, katharine.shobe@navy.mil
- Human Injury Treatment: Modeling and simulation of shipboard medical emergencies and medical logistics; POC: Dr. William "Kip" Krebs, william.krebs@navy.mil
- Multifunctional Blood Substitutes: Deployable resuscitation fluid that can sustain an injured warfighter and extend the golden hour; POC: Dr. Mike Given, michael.given@navy.mil
- Automated Critical Care System (ACCS): Deployable, light-weight system that monitors and sustains patients via closed-loop control systems, e.g., during a casualty evacuation; POC: Dr. Tim Bentley, timothy.b.bentley@navy.mil
- SEMPer Fi: Perfluorocarbon-based technologies (and related technologies) for the mitigation and treatment of hypoxia-related injuries at altitude, and blast-related injuries on land; POC: Dr. Tim Bentley, timothy.b.bentley@navy.mil
- Extreme Operations, Hypoxia Alert and Mitigation System (HAMS): Platform-independent hypoxia monitoring, alert and mitigation system for operations at altitude; POC: Lt. Cmdr. Chris Steele, christopher.steele4@navy.mil
- Acute Care Cover for Severely Injured Limbs (ACCSIL) (Planned): Conformal cover that protects the injured limb while providing a treatment cocktail that mitigates damage and promotes tissue survival. POC: Cmdr. Katie Shobe, katharine.shobe@navy.mil
- Blast Load and Assessment: Sense and Test (BLAST) (Planned): Quantitatively derived index of cognitive impairment as a function of blast intensity and iteration. POC: Dr. Tim Bentley, timothy.b.bentley@navy.mil
Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology 13-001
13-001 (PDF - 233.31 KB)
Amendement 0001 (PDF - 33.97 KB)
Published: September 27, 2012 04:51 PM EST | Full Proposals will be accepted until September 30, 2013 03:00 PM EST