MANTEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DHA17-001
MANTEL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $995,829
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Defense Health Program
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Topic
- DHA17-001
- Solicitation
- 2017.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2018-08-27 → 2021-01-21
Description
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has identified electrotextiles as a potential means of unobtrusively monitoring health and detecting injury events for military personnel. As such, DHA seeks to understand how e-textile constructs might be best leveraged to sense potential injury events such that individualized care may be administered to support both in-combat self-sufficiency and long-term resiliency and quality of life. This Phase II SBIR program will build on Mantel's successful Phase I SBIR program to further develop a medical simulation capable of inferring likely bodily injury based on detected changes in an e-textile system. Mantel will expand its Phase I model to further refine algorithms for use in designing e-textile sensor systems and will develop a test fixture system capable of supporting a wide range of test scenarios. Approaches to using e-textile to detect and discern between medically-relevant combat events and conditions will be demonstrated.