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DOD Issues RPP Through the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) to Leverage 5G and Augmented Reality to Save Warfighters' LivesWASHINGTON, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Department of Defense (DoD) has issued a Request for Prototype Proposal (RPP) to the members of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC) in support of 5G Telemedicine and Medical Training research and technology development. To provide the best possible solutions to the DoD, the NSC has invited members of the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) to review the RPPs and possibly team with proposers from the NSC. The RPP focuses on two objectives:
"This initiative represents an exciting opportunity to significantly advance the quality of military care for our warfighters by leveraging the latest developments in 5G and augmented reality, said Maren Leed, Executive Director of the National Spectrum Consortium. "Bringing those technologies to bear will mean our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines operating in remote locations will be supported by state-of-the-art care. At the same time, DoD's investments will help advance the commercial state-of-the-art when it comes to using AR for medical training and mentoring, benefitting the nation as a whole." "Augmented reality has the very real potential to create three-dimensional immersive learning experiences to train and mentor military medical personnel in critical care and trauma scenarios from remote locations," said National Spectrum Consortium Chief Strategy Officer, Vice Admiral Joseph Dyer, USN (ret). "When fully developed and implemented, it will bring medical expertise from anywhere in the world tothe battlefield and save lives. We are excited to see the innovative solutions that NSC and MTEC member teams will offer to DoD in this critically important area of the health and safety of our men and women in uniform." Request for Prototype Proposal Spectrum Forward OTA The NSC membership possesses broad expertise in the following areas related to the electromagnetic spectrum and advanced wireless technologies: Ubiquitous Connectivity; Cognitive Spectrum Access & Sharing; Cybersecurity; Radio Frequency-Free Space Optics Cooperative Systems; Autonomous Systems (Ground/Air/Maritime); Internet of Things (Narrow Band/Critical/Massive); Electronic Warfare; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Software Defined Radios/Networking/Architectures; Radar Systems; Digital Signal Processing; Microelectronics; Software Reconfigurability; Nanotechnology; Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence; Autonomy/Robotics; Biotechnology; Big Data Analytics; Edge and Cloud Computing; Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality; Location Detection; 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing; and 5th generation (5G) information communications technologies, products, and services including the use of zero trust. About the National Spectrum Consortium Contact: Scott Gerber, [email protected], 408-202-4255 View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dod-issues-rpp-through-the-national-spectrum-consortium-nsc-to-leverage-5g-and-augmented-reality-to-save-warfighters-lives-301311587.html SOURCE National Spectrum Consortium |