DLH Modeling & Simulation Capabilities Front and Center as TATRC Kicks Off Challenge Effort

DLH and its partners at the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) recently participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Triage Challenge. The DARPA Triage Challenge looks to spur progress in the identification of signatures of injury. The innovation that happens at challenges such as these helps medical responders perform scalable, timely, and accurate triage in both civilian and military mass casualty events down the line.  

Here, the DLH team performed a variety of roles, including scenario design, simulation, testing, evaluation, and data collection. The event kicks off TATRC’s three-year challenge effort. Each year, teams will test their prototype solutions live against predefined metrics. 

DLHers showcased high-fidelity manikins and displayed examples of moulage or props used on simulated live casualties, and example footage of the initial training dataset. Attendees had the chance to see an Unmanned Aerial System used to collect the data, along with the physiological monitoring devices used to record and track the live actor ground truth vitals. 

Congratulations to all who supported this landmark experience!