NCMS Project #: 142227
Problem:
The uncertainty of the recent pandemic and its rapid spread across the world resulted in breakdowns of key data, analytical models, and planning assumptions. This induced significant risks to public health protection measures and caused disruptions across medical, equipment replacement parts, manufacturing materials, and other critical supply chains. This disruption to supply chains in multiple industries demonstrated the need for technology that can help sense changes in the public and workforces’ health or other factors that can be used to proactively secure critical supply chains.
Benefit:
The project has the potential to benefit every industry with a supply chain of domestic and international suppliers, or a blend of both. Commercial companies and healthcare providers will be able to easily adopt the ABIS suite to provide timely, low-cost, and continuous health monitoring solutions that will allow them to manage supply chain risks caused by disruptions out of their control during pandemics events as well as to forecast demand for health response products.
Solution/Approach:
The proposed solution is a mobile platform agnostic Autonomous Biomarker Identification Sensor (ABIS) suite of tools which can be easily integrated into existing manufacturing workforce management and supply management tools to monitor vital signs, first via smartphones and later via novel platforms. This effort will focus on providing robust, mobile platform-agnostic analytics for extracting physiological information from smartphone video platforms, starting with commercially available mobile devices; a mobile-phone first platform is critical to supply chain sustainment and maintenance as it can easily and quickly be integrated into manufacturer workforce management applications to monitor and support the manufacturing base as well as provide the hyper-localized data necessary to inform critical supply chain forecasting and decision making.
Impact on Warfighter:
- Enhance supply chain resiliency
- Reduce negative impact of disasters/public health events
- Increase force health readiness
- Improve forecasting and decision making
DOD Participation:
- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Enablers (AE)
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness
Industry Participation:
- Presage Security, Inc.
- NCMS
Benefit Area(s):
- Cost savings
- Obsolescence
- Safety
- Mx management improvement
- Improved readiness
- Survivability
- Reliability improvement
- Lightweighting
Mx Focus Area:
- Energy, Environmental, Health and Safety
