HT942523P0104

Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase I

Cold Weather Injury Simulation System (CWISS)

Medical Simulations for Extreme Cold Weather Environments

SIMETRI will address the Department of Defense's new emphasis on Arctic policy and a new massive international exercise in the Arctic with the Cold Weather Injury Simulation System, or CWISS, which will provide the DoD and Civilian medical personnel with a training environment that replicates the extreme cold environment. Phase I will include the development of training devices for the most common cold weather injuries, frostbite and hypothermia. The CWISS will simulate the additional steps and burdens encountered while treating patients in extreme cold. SIMETRI will also perform a detailed study on the impacts of extreme cold on medical training devices, as most (if not all) of the current training devices are not designed to operate in the extreme cold. The CWISS leverages SIMETRI's successful history of developing complex anatomical models with detailed anatomy representations that work seamlessly with the underlying technology, enabling us to accelerate the development of the CWISS, which will utilize SIMETRI's proven Systems Engineering approach to facilitate all of the training requirements of this SBIR topic.

The goal of phase I is to establish the technical merit, feasibility, and commercial potential of proposed R&D efforts and determine the quality of performance of the small business awardee organization.

DHA232-003

H232-003-0015

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Angela M. Alban