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An ongoing project intends to enable military and other scientists to monitor and even enhance the ways in which a soldier’s brain sleeps and, importantly, attains rest and repair. The effort – a collaboration between the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) Military Operational Medicine Research Program (MOMRP) and scientists and engineers at Rice University (Houston, Texas) – is only one of a group of sensor-driven military projects seeking to create wearable technology to track and improve soldier performance and outcomes.
For decades, the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics has conducted and published cutting-edge research in the rapidly expanding field of social network analysis. Now, UK, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is announcing a $1.8 million collaboration aimed at improving retention and performance of military personnel.