Phase II Amount
$2,000,000
Within the military, emergency response or other professions involving human operational components (e.g. a pilot for an aircraft), tactical operations often pose significant challenges and risks stemming from poor information flow. Information overload affecting individuals and information choke-points prevent actions during mission-critical moments. In some cases, these delays cost lives (e.g. delayed MEDEVAC launch or late EMS arrival, etc.). Challenges amplify during time-sensitive situations, as do the adverse effects and consequences. These include higher potential for human error with each transmission, redundancies, or some combination of both involving lengthy prescribed channels (i.e. relaying through 9-1-1 dispatch, aircraft overhead, or tactical operation centers). Our platform, Squire the digital assistant that saves lives translates information to help individuals focus on the task at hand while communicating vital information (i.e. vice having to re-translate, re-package, re-format, or re-transmit information to end users). Squire revolutionizes information flow by utilizing voice-control and speech recognition, coupled with artificial intelligence and select technologies such as geo-location, camera, wearable, or other technologies to streamline information flow to MEDEVAC personnel. Our system has changed how MEDEVAC information (MIST and 9-Line Reports) is captured, extracted, and routed, primarily driven by Natural Language Processing capabilities with voice-control across all pertinent systems. This proposal addresses AF NEEDS ID# 3384 (wearable sensor/physiological monitor for vitals integration); [TRL 7/8].
