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Force Health Protection Future Capability
(FHPFC)CDR Elizabeth Montcalm-Smith2 August
2007
11/21/2009
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Force Health Protection Future Capability (FHPFC)

• Current program ends FY07
• New program (FY08-13) being built

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Force Health Protection Future Capability
Program Capability Gaps

• Combat Casualty Care and Management
• Capability to non-surgically manage
  intra-thoracic, intra-abdominal, intra-cranial
  hemorrhage
• Capability to diagnose and treat mild/moderate
  brain injury (TBI) resulting from repetitive
  exposure to blast and identification of
  mechanisms of injury
• Capability to more effectively manage wounds to
  limit infection, accelerate healing and/or tissue
  regeneration
• Capability for scaleable, deployable, medical
  isolation aboard Navy platforms and improved
  provision of care onboard high speed vessels

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Force Health Protection Future Capability
Program Capability Gaps

• Combat Casualty Care and Management
• Capability for automated patient monitoring and
  treatment
• Capability to rapidly type, cross-match and
  detect pathogens in fresh whole blood being
  collected for transfusion in austere environments
  (please contact the TPOC for full system
  requirements)

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Force Health Protection Future Capability
Program Capability Gaps

• Casualty Prevention
• Capability to provide surveillance, analysis and
  mitigation of health threats using evidence
  based-methodologies. Research efforts should
  focus on flexible modeling tools and surveillance
  technologies to aid military planners and medical
  personnel in the control of infectious disease
  outbreaks
• Capability to mitigate the effects of combat
  stress-reaction and post-traumatic stress
  disorder (PTSD) in active duty personnel
• Capability for non-pharmacological
  stress-inoculation to prevent combat stress
  casualties
• Capability to preserve and restore hearing

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Force Health Protection Future Research
Initiatives

• Broad Agency Announcement 07-006
• Proposals solicited with BAA 07-006
• Closed on 1 June 2007
• 42 of proposals received were from industry
• The Force Health Protection BAA is located at
  http//www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/expired.asp
• Proposals may be submitted against the ONR Long
  Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy
  and Marine Corps Science Technology (September
  13, 2006) http//www.onr.navy.mil/02/baa/