![Sim-Game Based Research – JPC1a
-Applied Research
Associate - Anesthesia and
Anaphylaxis for Physicians
-Blitz Games Studios
(Vitalize Game Based
Wellbeing [Kinect-based]
Physical Therapy Coach
TATRC WEST TATRC office
LOS ANGELES, CA TATRC / BHSAI
FORT DETRICK, MD BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
-Blue Marble – TBI
Rehabilitation Surface TRIPLER
HONOLULU, HI TATRC South
AUGUSTA, GA
-Breakaway Games –
Hospital Disaster Simulator
for CBRNE
-Institute for Creative
Technologies – SimCoach,
other projects
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- 1. Telemedicine & AdvancedTechnology Research Center (TATRC) 1- Medical Simulation and Training Technology Research Portfolio 2- Armed Forces Simulation Institute for Medicine (AFSIM) Games for Health - 17 May 2011 COL Karl E. Friedl, Ph.D. COL Ron K. Poropatich, M.D. Director, TATRC Deputy Director, TATRC Fort Detrick, Maryland Fort Detrick, Maryland UNCLASSIFIED
- 2. Presenter: J. HarveyMagee, Technical Director, Medical Simulation & Training Technology • Financial Disclosures: None • Organizational Disclosures: Employed by University of Maryland Med System, loaned to US Army under the Intragovernmental Personnel Mobilization Act (IPA) • Disclaimer: I have no authority to negotiate for, or to obligate, the US Government. • This is an informational brief and not intended to convey Department of Defense policy. UNCLASSIFIED
- 3. TATRC MedSim Team •Thomas B. Talbot, MAJ, USA, MC • Chair, JPC-1a Steering Committee • Director, Armed Forces Simulation Institute for Medicine (AFSIM) • Kevin Kunkler, MD, Interim Portfolio Manager • Hugh Connacher, Engineer • Harvey Magee, Hospital Administrator (Presenting in behalf of team), Technical Director • Harvey.magee@tatrc.org • Greg Wimsatt, JPC1 Facilitator • Adam Wyatt, Project Officer • Elton Edinborough, Project Officer UNCLASSIFIED
- 4. Who TATRC is •A US Army agency reporting to HQ US Army Medical Research Materiel Command (USAMRMC) • We serve all of DOD UNCLASSIFIED
- 5. Purposes • Inform theGames for Health community of interest about: • “traditional” TATRC “MedSim” portfolio, 1999-2011-->> • a new funding source for medical simulation, through the Defense Health Program, managed by the Office of Secretary of Defense / Health Affairs (OSD/HA) • Armed Forces Institute for Medicine (AFSIM) • Joint Program Committee1a-MedSim (JPC1a-MedSim) • AFSIM strategic plan • Identify and describe major initiatives / areas of interest • Inform the public about Fiscal Year (FY) 10 investments • Request information / ideas for future AFSIM strategies UNCLASSIFIED
- 6. Fulfilling the VisionThru R&D Mission Explore science and engineering technologies ahead of programmed research, leveraging other programs to maximize benefits to military medicine Vision Be the DoD model of government enablement of technology transfer to use UNCLASSIFIED
- 7. Strategic Partnerships US MilitaryPartners USAMRMC HQs and Labs Naval Health Research Center Army & Navy Medical Centers Extramural Partners Pacific Telehealth & Technology Hui Center for Integration of Medical & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Pain and Neuroscience Center Research (Conemaugh) TATRC WEST TATRC office LOS ANGELES, CA TATRC / BHSAI UTHSC-Houston FORT DETRICK, MD BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Loma Linda University Center for Advanced Surgical & TRIPLER Interventional Technology (CASIT) HONOLULU, HI TATRC South Samueli Research Institute AUGUSTA, GA Center for Excellence for Remote & Medically Under-Served Areas (CERMUSA) Windber Research Institute Joslin Vision Network Projects Supported Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR) Norway Schepens Eye Research Institute Poland University of Maryland Macedonia Ryder Trauma Center Netherlands Italy International Medical Military Partners Austria France, Germany, UK UNCLASSIFIED
- 8. Sim-Game Based Research- TATRC - Duke (Anesthesiology Team Training) - Virtual Reality Med Cen - Institute of Creative Technologies - Higher Order Learning Skills to Manage Blast / IED Events: - MYMIC LLC - SimQuest LLC -Chem-Bio-Rad-Nuclear-Explosive - Forterra (bought by SAIC) TATRC WEST TATRC office LOS ANGELES, CA TATRC / BHSAI FORT DETRICK, MD BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -Cog Motor Therapy / Console Game -Blue Marble TRIPLER -Kinetic Muscles HONOLULU, HI TATRC South AUGUSTA, GA -Pandemic Event Mgt -SimQuest -Total Immersion Solutions - Interactive Game-based system for Psych Health Ed -Novonics -SOAR -Total Immersion Solutions UNCLASSIFIED
- 9. Sim-Game Based Research– JPC1a -Applied Research Associate - Anesthesia and Anaphylaxis for Physicians -Blitz Games Studios (Vitalize Game Based Wellbeing [Kinect-based] Physical Therapy Coach TATRC WEST TATRC office LOS ANGELES, CA TATRC / BHSAI FORT DETRICK, MD BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -Blue Marble – TBI Rehabilitation Surface TRIPLER HONOLULU, HI TATRC South AUGUSTA, GA -Breakaway Games – Hospital Disaster Simulator for CBRNE -Institute for Creative Technologies – SimCoach, other projects UNCLASSIFIED
- 10. TATRC Funding History Since FY98, $2.10B managed R&D projects Millions 400 350 300 Demonstrations & Field T-Med (P8) 250 200 150 100 50 Congressional Special Appropriations – RDT&E 0 '98 '00 '02 '04 '06 '08 FY 2009 Total $454.8M UNCLASSIFIED
- 11. TATRC Portfolios Medical Information & Training Technologies Military Operational Medicine Infectious Diseases Combat Casualty Care Clinical & Rehabilitative Medicine Advanced Simulation Prosthetics Resilience & & Training Medical Bio-Monitoring & Human Human Reintegration Technology Robotics Psych Health Technologies Performance Performance Optimization MAJ Talbot Dr. Lai Dr. Gilbert Dr. Shore Mr. Turner Dr. Cardin Medical Health Imaging Information Genomics International Technologies Technologies Computational Nano-Medicine & Regenerative / Proteomics Health Biology Biomaterials Medicine LCDR Steffensen Dr. Lai Dr. Nisson Ms. Barrigan Dr. Reifman Dr. Grundfest Dr. Pacifico Medical Infectious Logistics Blood Products Trauma Neurotrauma Vision Research Disease Acoustic & Safety Trauma Dr. Broderick Dr. Golanov Mr. Read Dr. Carney Mr. DePasquale Mr. Malloy Dr. Holtel Slide 11 of 37 UNCLASSIFIED
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- 13. Opportunity-Driven Model -Examples • Congressionals - a “Line Item” appears in DOD Authorization / Appropriation Bills • Opportunity / obligation: to shape it to maximize military & scientific relevance while honoring congressional language • SBIR - Authoring of Small Business Innovative Research “topics” • Opportunity: proactively submit research topics to DOD / Army to “fill gaps” • Augmentation funding - Someone submits a hot, innovative idea • AAMTI - Army Med Dept Medical Training Initiative • JPC1-MedSim - Joint Program Committee 1-MedSim UNCLASSIFIED
- 14. Turning to medical simulation… UNCLASSIFIED
- 15. Why We Started– Reason #1 To Improve Trauma Training •100,000 military medical personnel must practice battlefield trauma care skills* (Source: GAO Rpt, NSIAD-98-75, DOD Training in Civilian Trauma Centers) •Good News – not enough trauma patients •Bad News – not enough trauma patients, for they ARE a training opportunity •Solution: Virtual patients UNCLASSIFIED
- 16. Why we Started– Reason #2 To Reduce the Errors • IOM report - 1999: >45,000 deaths due to errors - Medical errors 7th leading cause of U.S. death… • HealthGrades, 27 Jul 04: 195,000 deaths/yr, $6B annual costs, 6th most common death • ENT: 45 % report errors committed: 37% “Classification and Consequences of Errors in Otolaryngology “ serious harm, 9% fatal -Rahul K. Shah, et al, The Laryngoscope, August 2004 Slide courtesy of Dr. Steve Dawson, CIMIT Simulation Group UNCLASSIFIED November 09
- 17. Long-Term Vision for Simulation-based Training • To facilitate a paradigm shift in medical training, a Grand Challenge revolution… • FROM subjective assessment of clinical skills • TO a curriculum-aligned, metrics-driven, objective system of assessment based on demonstrated proficiency to perform skills for which health care personnel have been trained. UNCLASSIFIED
- 18. Integrated Research Team– Feb 00 •70-person IRT (government, academia, & industry) • Strategic ROAD MAP resulted • 4 general areas for research identified • Became basis of TATRC portfolio to this day UNCLASSIFIED
- 19. Basis for RoadMap: Multiple Needs, Multiple Technologies PC-based Interactive Multimedia Digitally Enhanced Mannequins Part- Task Trainers / Virtual Workbench es Total Immersion Virtual Reality UNCLASSIFIED
- 20. PC-Based Interactive Multimedia Maintenance of Certification Social Behavior – Combat Casualty – Chemical War - SimQuest AVESSS / Second Life - Forterra (now SAIC) CBRNE Interactive Psychological Health Education Cognitive Learning & Logistics - Patient Interactions & Logistics - Total Immersive Software, Inc (JESSEY) Office of Naval – Applied Research Associates, Inc, Research (PULSE) Virtual Heroes Division (HumanSim) UNCLASSIFIED
- 21. Digitally Enhanced Mannequins Next Generation Injury Creation - The Virtual Reality Medical Center Combat Medic Training System – Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technologies (CIMIT) - (COMETS) Compartment Syndrome Task Trainer - Operative Experience UNCLASSIFIED
- 22. Part-Task Trainers /Virtual Reality Systems Burr Hole Simulator - SimQuest Virtual Cricothyroidotomy - National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center 3-D Anatomical Model - ArchieMD, Inc. Compartment Syndrome Sim & Didactics - Touch of Life (ToLTECH) UNCLASSIFIED
- 23. Total Immersive VirtualReality System Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE)- National Capital Area Medical Simulation Image from www.simcen.org/VME%20Lab/projects/wave/index.html iGlove Robotic Controller - AnthroTronix Tactical Digital Holograms: technology Ultra High Resolution Display matured under contract with the Army - eMagin -Zebra Imaging UNCLASSIFIED
- 24. Technical Strategy • IdentifyEnabling Technologies • R&D them into components that can be… • Integrated into… • Systems of simulation-based training that can be… • Validated to determine their training effectiveness, so OTHER military organizations can… • Transition / sustain them for military health care, from the foxhole to the operating room and beyond UNCLASSIFIED
- 25. Enabling Technologies •Real-time invivo tissue property measurement •Haptics •Tissue-tool interactions •Graphics, visualization •Augmented Reality •Learning systems •Metrics development •Learning transfer & assessment •Open source architecture •Olfactory technologies •Gaming Technologies UNCLASSIFIED
- 26. AFSIM: Introduction to the Armed Forces Simulation Institute for Medicine Director: Thomas B. Talbot, MAJ, USA, MC Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC) UNCLASSIFIED
- 27. AFSIM ORIGINS • Departmentof Defense Health Affairs Initiative • Defense Health Program Dollars ~$30-45M/year (contingent on receipt of funding) • Improve medical education & readiness for all services • ULAMET – JAT Report • ASBREM Committee • JTCG-1 • JPC-1 • Initial Mandate 1. Live Tissue/Sim Research, 2. Curricula and Standards, 3. Virtual Human Coaching for OIF/OEF Veterans, 4. Ophthalmology & Anesthesia, and 5. Medical Simulation Systems. UNCLASSIFIED
- 28. Joint Program Committee1 • JPC-1 Tri-Service • Chair: COL Karl Friedl, PhD • Tri-Service Programmatic Committee Transparent • TATRC is primary execution agent Ethical • JPC-1a Medical Simulation & Training • Chair: MAJ Thomas B. Talbot, MD Visionary • Efforts spawned AFSIM • JPC-1b Health Information Technology Collaborative • Chair: Steve Steffensen, MD (Former Navy) Responsive • JPC-1c Decision Support Tools & Modeling • Chair: Jaques Reifman, PhD Strategic UNCLASSIFIED
- 29. JPC-1a Voting Members US Army - PEOSTRI US Air Force - Air Education Training Command US Army - Central Simulation Committee USUHS - Natl Capital Area Med Sim Cen AMEDD C&S - Directorate, Combat Medic Training AMEDD C&S - US Army EMS Office US Navy - Office of Naval Research US Air Force - Air Education Training Command US Army - RDECOM / STTC DARPA Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) Office of Naval Research UNCLASSIFIED
- 30. JPC-1a Advisors US Navy - Naval Postgraduate School Monterey Dept of Homeland Security DOD; USA OTSG DOD Patient Safety Office TATRC / Brussels Belgium USUHS - Natl Capital Area Med Sim Cen Defense Center of Excellence for Psych Health & TBI DOD Patient Safety Office HQ USAMRMC OASD (HA) UNCLASSIFIED
- 31. Ground Rules • NOPROMISES • We cannot obligate the US Government to anything based upon discussions during this event • Decisions, plans and budgets are subject to approval and changes by headquarters at any time • The steering committee can and will change plans • Pending Awards • We cannot provide details on programs under review for selection or projects pending award • We want your input • We shall inform industry and academia of our efforts and wish to glean your insights on how you think we can accomplish our strategic objectives UNCLASSIFIED
- 32. JPC-1a Structure Combat Casualty Medical Practice Training Initiative Initiative AFSIM Developer Tools Patient Focused for Medical Initiative Education UNCLASSIFIED
- 33. Combat Casualty TrainingInitiative Strategic Building Blocks (CCTI) Systems & research to improve pre-hospital trauma training and maintain lifesaver resilience Superior Battlefield Integrate very advanced training technology Lifesaving DTME Capability into medical training & simulation facilities of PFI all services Advanced Training Virtual Reality individual and team training to MPI Systems replicate chaotic and mass casualty scenarios in a safe environment Tri- Service Resilience Compatible Research & Curricula Integration Real world benefits: -Pre-hospital assets continuously in a high state of readiness Simulator Olfaction & Gap R&D to -Potential to replace animal training equal animal PTSD Research efficacy -Training geared towards psychological Animal / Improved resilience during and after deployments Simulator Task Improved Learning -Improved safety by statistically valid Comparison (CCTC) Trainers & Manikins Metrics recognition of lost skills UNCLASSIFIED
- 34. FY11 Combat CasualtyTraining Initiative • Combat Casualty Training Consortium Program Announcement - $15.2M • Timeline Released Summer 2010 Closed November 19th, 2010 Scientific Review Complete Programmatic Review Underway Selection Board February 24th, 2011 Award(s) Anticipated Late Summer 2011 • Critical Research Areas • Trauma Airway • Hemorrhage • Emergency Medical Skills (Nerve Agent Casualty) • Goals • Live Animal / Simulator Comparative Research • Curriculum Development • Simulator System Gap Analysis UNCLASSIFIED
- 35. FY10 Combat CasualtyTraining Initiative Combat Casualty Training Initiative Project Perfomer Budget Live tissue / sim - metrics research NAVAIR $ 369,835 BCT-3 live tissue / sim study Brooke Army Medical Center $ 250,000 Multiple Amputee Trauma Trainer STTC Orlando $ 756,000 Rapid trauma skills training Operative Experience $ 497,750 COMETS improved capabilities for combat medics CIMIT Sim Group $ 449,901 Maxillofacial & Ophthalmology Trauma Trainer Pending Extramural Award Pending Award TOTAL: ~$ 5,550,000 UNCLASSIFIED
- 36. CCTI FY11 Plans •CTCC PA Award $15.2 M • Extend BCT-3 research efforts ($1.8M) ~$17 Million UNCLASSIFIED
- 37. CCTI FY12 Plans •No Program Announcement Plans for FY12 • Consider PA in FY13 • CTCC is just starting and will not produce feedback by FY12 to know where to add additional funding to CTCC • Should we start a new advanced training platform in FY12? • Advanced open architecture manikin • Possible, but we don’t have research data to know everything it will need • Advanced talking task trainers • It is a stronger possibility. What would we do? UNCLASSIFIED
- 38. Medical Practice Initiative StrategicBuilding Blocks (MPI) Development of medical training systems & competency assessment for sustained military medical readiness. Advanced Doctor Education PFI Continuous Observation of Medical System (COMRADE DTME Records for Advanced Doctor Education ) (COMRADE) Virtual Human Standardize Real-time specialty specific evaluation for d Patients loss of skills & knowledge JPC-1b EHR JPC-1c Education & Decision Real world benefits: CCTI Reference Support Integration Integration -Reduced cost for training Educational -Reduced liability Content Military Serious Medical -Cost savings by replacing expensive Games for Lifecycle standardized live patient teaching Training Counselor cases with reusable virtual human (DKO) patients Loss of Common Curricula & Military Skills. -Improved Tri-Service medical Retraining Metrics Medical Simulation interoperability & (Tri Service Masters Competence Consortium) -Leverages Electronic Health Record system as training portal -Can use AHLTA or another EHR UNCLASSIFIED
- 39. Continuous Observation of MedicalRecords for Advanced Doctor Education (COMRADE) Medical Record EHR Development Extensive hyper-linking and floating reference info Meaningful visual formats Advanced Clinical practice guideline based formats when appropriate Doctor Intelligent summarization of data Education System Health records that communicate (COMRADE) Visual decision support tools Intelligent Assessment & Tutoring System tracks procedures, CME, findings & assessments to determine physician exposures against list of expected knowledge by their specialty board System determines if lack of exposure is sufficient for a refresher in a certain area System schedules a teaching case or a virtual patient into the physicians patient schedule System recommends periodic procedure observed training Automatic & documented maintenance of certification UNCLASSIFIED
- 40. FY10 Medical PracticeInitiative Medical Practice Initiative Project Perfomer Budget Medical Training Evaluation and Review (MeTER) RDECOM / STTC $515,000 Training Outcomes Research Metrics UCLA / CRESST $450,000 Hospital disaster simulator - CBRNE Based Breakaway Games $2,671,322 Redeployment skills evaluation Madigan Army Medical Center $800,000 Tri Service Medical Simulation Training Consortium Air Force / ONR / USUHS $2,500,000 Anesthesia and Anaphylaxis for Physicians Applied Research Associates $1,900,000 Virtual Sick Call RDECOM / STTC $773,000 TOTAL: $ 9,609,322 UNCLASSIFIED
- 41. MPI FY11 Plans • Navy Redeployment Skills Degradation • Multiple Amputee Trainer (MATT) final year • Olfaction training device & study • Medical Simulation Training Consortium Years 2-3 • Simulation for Futuristic Surgery (VR Urology) • CBRNE Hospital Incident Management Radiological Scenarios • Ocular Craniofacial Manikin Advanced Development • Medical Simulation Master’s Degree Program • Student Innovations in Medical Simulation (Skunk Works) • Unfunded request for large web portal hosted by Air Force ~$13.5 Million UNCLASSIFIED
- 42. MPI FY12 Plans •We would like a program announcement for FY12 • PA would be major effort for AFSIM for the year • Things we are thinking about: • How can electronic health record data be used to discern a physician’s educational needs? • Military Medical Career Training Guidance • How can we deliver training content with all the things we want to do on government computer systems? • For what applications are Virtual Reality & networked training appropriate and efficacious? • Are there things going on in the civilian world that we can leverage? UNCLASSIFIED
- 43. Patient Focused Initiative StrategicBuilding Blocks (PFI) Advanced user interface and interactive technologies for healthy living, medical practice , MPI patient rehabilitation & training Advanced CCTI Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Training Advanced technology for training Technology applications leveraging investments of DoD and Government Partners Virtual Human Patients & Coaches Adapts therapeutic technology targeting warfighter readiness and mental health Mobile Physical & Technology Neurocognitive Integration for Therapy Real world benefits: Health & Applications Training -High impact development at reduced costs, especially for VR-based training JPC-8 NIH – Virtual Rehabilitation, -Technology highly adaptable to Reality for Obesity & Physical and Neurocognitive training Diabetes Rehabilitation -Direct injured warfighter benefit -Traumatic Brain Injury ICT simCoach -Psychological Health (PTSD, Suicide) DARPA – Game Industry & Emotionally Healing Heroes Technology Expressive -Physical Therapy Characters -Adaptation of mobile and tele-health technology PARTNERSHIPS UNCLASSIFIED
- 44. FY10 Patient FocusedInitiative Patient Focused Initiative Project Perfomer Budget Vitalize Game Based Wellbeing (Kinect-based Physical Therapy Coach) Blitz Games Studios $4,325,024 Refining medical outcomes deployment: Naval Health Research Center $500,055 TBI Rehabilitation Surface Blue Marble $1,374,447 Olfaction & Resilience Research (10 studies 6.1) Monell Chemical Senses Center $4,000,000 TOTAL: $10,199,526 UNCLASSIFIED
- 45. PFI FY11 Plans •Natural Language Processing for Virtual Humans • 3D motion tracking for rehabilitation • DARPA: Healing Heroes ~$5 Million UNCLASSIFIED
- 46. PFI FY12 Plans •We want to consider a program announcement in FY12 • Things we are thinking about: • Virtual Humans for Coaching • Assessment of off the shelf and easily hacked technology for the rehabilitation, assessment and therapy environments • Mobile Technology • Constantly proposing SBIR topics in this area UNCLASSIFIED
- 47. Developer Tools forMedical Education Strategic Building Blocks (DTME) Transformational open source advanced developer tools to reduce MPI development costs and democratize access to technology. CCTI Affordable Training Based on the need to greatly reduce the Content Creation burden to develop interactive medical & CCTI surgical training content. Character AI Open Source (OS) promotes low cost and innovation Surgical VR Advanced Training Real world benefits: System Displays & Interfaces -Greatly reduced development costs Standards Online -Saves development time Portal -Facilitates content creation OS Practical Physiology OS Speech & Motion -Greatest need as program matures Engine Recognition -Opens development to a more diverse and wider community OS VR OS Natural OS Medical -Reduced system procurement costs Language Anatomy & Haptic Asset Processing Library -Reduces redundant development Platform UNCLASSIFIED
- 48. FY10 Developer Toolsfor Medical Education Developer Tools For Medical Education Perfomer Budget Dynamic Holographic Displays & 3D in medical education RDECOM & PEOSTRI $ 3,000,039 Tri-Service Open Platform for Simulation USUHS $ 2,000,000 TOTAL: $ 5,000,039 UNCLASSIFIED
- 49. DTME FY11 Plans •Advanced VR Eyewear Display ~$4 Million UNCLASSIFIED
- 50. DTME FY12 Plans •We want to consider a program announcement in FY12 • Things we are thinking about in the near term: • Open Source Practical Physiology Engines • Open Source Visual Human toolkit for VR surgical applications • Things we are thinking about down the road • Open Source Virtual Character Behavior Engine • Medical Asset Exchange (Radiographs, sounds, slides, etc.) • Character emotional display, speech & movement tools • Natural Interface Tools, Facial Recognition for Emotion, etc. UNCLASSIFIED
- 51. Summary • Many thanksto the Games for Health community. You are part of an unprecedented opportunity to shape the future of medical training • We welcome your input • Make the most of the week! • Harvey.magee@tatrc.org UNCLASSIFIED
- 52. Opportunity-Driven Model -Examples • Congressionals - a “Line Item” appears in DOD Authorization / Appropriation Bills • Opportunity / obligation: to shape it to maximize military & scientific relevance while honoring congressional language • SBIR - Authoring of Small Business Innovative Research “topics” • Opportunity: proactively submit research topics to DOD / Army to “fill gaps” • Augmentation funding - Someone submits a hot, innovative idea • AAMTI - Army Med Dept Medical Training Initiative • JPC1-MedSim - Joint Program Committee 1-MedSim UNCLASSIFIED
- 53. Congressional Process • Ourrole is to manage congressionally supported research as directed. • Constituents’ opportunity is to educate and inform your congressional representative . Government officials are prohibited from involvement with constituents in seeking to influence Congress. •If you have questions, contract Mr Tony Story, TATRC’s congressional liaison. •301-619-7033 •tony.story@tatrc.org UNCLASSIFIED
- 54. Locate the USAMRMC Broad Agency Announcement (the “BAA”) • http://www.tatrc.org • Click “Funding” at top-line menu. • On Funding Opportunity page, click “USAMRMC BAA 10-1”. • Click “Click here to visit the USAMRMC Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) Website”. • Or just go here: http://www.usamraa.army.mil/pages/baa_forms/index.cfm • READ and UNDERSTAND IT! • You can take it from there. UNCLASSIFIED
- 55. Questions ? UNCLASSIFIED