Design Interactive Inc, (DI), an Orlando-based, family-owned eXtended Reality (XR) firm, announced a new $3.8 million, multi-year award from the Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (JWMRP) to transition DI’s AUGMED® Mobile product line to operational capability. AUGMED® Mobile will deliver an XR-enabled tablet to provide anytime, anywhere training for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) trainees over the next three years.
Design Interactive CEO, Dr. Kay Stanney, comments “Moving the product to a mobile platform and focusing on fielding the system with warfighters at the unit level provides the opportunity to fill critical training gaps and increase military medical readiness. Ultimately, we aim to provide XR training solutions that will support eliminating preventable death on the battlefield.”
AUGMED® Mobile fundamentally transforms and exponentially improves the approach to TCCC training through embodied, contextually rich and highly realistic training, thereby ensuring readiness in critical life-saving skills such as life-threatening bleeding control, airway management, and needle chest decompression. While testing the system at the Fort Indiantown Gap Medical Simulation Test Facility, Frank Karluk, former Combat Medic, said “AUGMED®’s brand of extended reality training specifically targets the needs of overseas Soldiers who may not be able to attend group refresher classes on a routine basis.”
AUGMED® Mobile has been field tested with multiple soldier touch points, including Fort Bragg, Hurlburt AF, Fort Indiantown Gap, and MacDill AFB. “We are confident that the integration of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality onto mobile devices will provide service members with highly accessible, engaging, and effective combat casualty care training. We are excited to see this project move forward towards full transition and fielding,” remarked Colonel Lockhart, chief nurse in the 6 MDG at MacDill AFB. The outcomes of the JWMRP award include system hardening, curriculum expansion, training validation, Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance, and Acceptance Test Operation (ATO) readiness. The AUGMED® Mobile effort is an extension of DI’s existing AUGMED® product line, which utilizes XR head worn displays to present immersive, augmented training content to TCCC Combat Lifesavers.
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About Design Interactive
DI is a woman-owned, small business in Orlando, Florida that specializes in the development of eXtended Reality training and operational support solutions that truly empower people. DI has been delivering value to customers in Defense, Manufacturing, Transportation, Aviation and Medicine since its founding in 1998.
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