NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS AFB, TEXAS

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTERDETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXAS
MISSION WARFIGHTER PROTECTION Directed Energy
biomedical effects RDTE to optimize performance
of Navy and Marine Corps personnel and enhance
warfighter protection
TRI-SERVICE DIRECTED ENERGY BIOEFFECTS RD
COMPLEX Project Reliance initiative to collocate
Services directed energy biomedical RD assets

• USAF RESEARCH LABORATORY, ARMSTRONG SITE
• USA (WRAIR) MEDICAL RESEARCH DETACHMENT
• USN NHRC DET BROOKS AFB

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NAVY MEDICINERDTE ORGANIZATION
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TRISERVICE DIRECTED ENERGY BIOEFFECTS COMPLEX,
BROOKS AFB, TXNAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER
DETACHMENT ASSETS
1169 HQ Bldg.
Outdoor Groundplane Irradiation Facility
1177 RFR Research Facility
1162 Frank M. Tejeda Triservice DEBL (NHRC DET
Laser Assets)
1167 Vivarium
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FUTURE FORCE
TODAYS FORCE

• FILL DIRECTED ENERGY BIOEFFECTS GAPS
• Health safety of ready forces in non-battle
  DE operating environment
• Threat countermeasures in hostile DE operating
  environments (battlefield uses of DE DEW)
• Care management of DE casualties

WHY DIRECTED ENERGY BIOEFFECTS RESEARCH?
What are gaps RD can fill?
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• Threat countermeasures in hostile DE operating
  environments (battlefield uses of DE DEW)

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY NATIONAL MILITARY
STRATEGY JOINT VISION 2020 FORWARDFROM THE SEA
OMFTS
Threat countermeasures in hostile DE operating
environments (battlefield uses of DE DEW)
Health safety of forces in non-battle DE
operating environment
Care management of DE casualties
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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• 10 MW pulsed microwave source _at_ 1.25 GHz
  (AN/FPS-7B radar transmitter)
• 4 MW pulsed microwave source _at_ 5.6 GHz
  (AN/FPS-26A radar transmitter)
• 4 MW pulsed microwave source _at_ 3.0 GHz
  (RT-624/SPS-30)
• 500W pulsed microwave source _at_ 16 GHz (Hughes
  Transmitter 1610H)
• Stanford Linear Energy Doubler (gt peak power of
  5.62 GHz sources by 9x)
• Assorted 500-1000 W CW RF sources/amplifiers _at_
  2-1000 MHz
• Navy-patented RF/MW dosimetry system
• (Green-man coffin calorimeters)
• High resolution IR camera system for surface
• temperature measurements
• Twin-well calorimetry systems for whole body
• SAR measurements

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Two metal-clad RF/MW anechoic irradiation
  chambers (10H x 10W x 20L)

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• 4 walk-in isolation chambers for nonhuman primate
  behavioral training

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Machine Shop

• Electrical Shop

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Simulated ship deck outdoor irradiation facility
  with intact F/A-18A airframe

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• AAALAC accredited vivarium (can house up to 14
  rhesus monkeys) and Brooks AFB veterinary services

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Rhesus monkey behavioral models
• visual auditory sensory thresholds
• cognitive test battery short term memory
• and attention, learning, time perception,
• motivation, color and position discrimination
• induced body currents in wrist and ankle
• Ocular evaluation capability
• LKG 2000 electroretinography system (evaluation
  of visual performance)
• Humphrey Mastervue system (evaluation of corneal
  topography)
• Konan clinical specular microscope (evaluation of
  corneal endothelium)
• Interzeig lens opacity meter (evaluation of lens
  opacity)
• Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope
  (evaluation of retinal morphology)
• VISTECH contrast sensitivity tester (evaluation
  of contrast sensitivity)

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Laser glare demonstrator (for use in unaided
  human vision NVG demos)

• Implications for aviation
• Disrupt routine visual scan behavior
• Effects can be realized at tactically significant
  ranges

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NAVAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER DETACHMENT BROOKS
AFB, TEXASRESEARCH ASSETS

• Continuous wave lasers, including
• 5 W argon ion pumped dye laser (visible near
  IR)
• 5 W solid state laser (532 nm)
• 130 mW argon ion gas laser (457-514 nm)
• Laser glare laboratory (laser impact on
  visually-mediated performance)
• Deployable man-portable laser threat assessment
  package
• Military aviation laser threat analysis computer
  models
• Laser glare demonstrator (for use in unaided
  human vision NVG demos)
• Computer-based visual psychophysics test battery
• Laser Threat and Mission Planning System
  (prototype tactical decision aid for naval
  aviation)
• Numerous leveraged assets belonging to USA and
  USAF members of Tri-Service Directed Energy
  Bioeffects Lab