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PREFACE
This report describes the Army Medical Department’s participation in the Medical Technology Workshop-99, one of the Army After Next franchise games sponsored by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. These exercises are designed to link Army XXI to a longterm vision of the Army, extending well into the twenty-first century, and to ensure that this vision informs evolving Army research and development requirements. The report describes the workshop design and execution, identifies emerging issues and insights, and recommends improvements for future technology workshops. The report is intended for those who may influence or are influenced by operational medical support to the Army After Next and the Army Transformation, including medical professionals as well as policymakers. This research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Department and was conducted jointly by the RAND Arroyo Center’s Manpower and Training Program and the Center for Military Health Policy Research. The Arroyo Center is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Army. Comments and inquiries should be addressed to the authors.
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4.1 Medical Systems as Syntheses .................. 4.2 Force Integration Seminar .....................
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4.1 Deriving Medical Support Missions from AAN Missions .................................. 4.2 Deriving FOCs from Future Medical Missions ......
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SUMMARY
OVERVIEW OF ARMY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (MTW-99) This weeklong workshop focused primarily on identifying those portions of the Army’s Medical Science and Technology Investment Strategy, principally Basic Research (6.1) and Applied Research (6.2) investment areas, that are essential to ensure that the Army will have the required medical capabilities to support the Army After Next (AAN) in 2025. The goal of the Medical Technology Workshop 1999 (MTW-99) was to support Army efforts to make the appropriate technology acquisition decisions by developing medical solutions for military requirements to protect and sustain the force. MTW-99 focused on four specific objectives to attain this goal: •
Determine new or refine existing medical and nonmedical technologies and systems to meet AAN-era force health protection capability requirements.
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Determine the feasibility and affordability of developing and fielding medical systems in support of AAN-era force health protection capability requirements.
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Develop medical input for the Assistant Secretary of the Army’s (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) Technology and Materiel Game.
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Develop materials for use in the AAN and AMEDD After Next series of wargames and franchise events.
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Army Medical Support to the Army After Next
The workshop was divided into two types of panels: functional and technology. In the main, the functional panels focused on future operational capabilities (FOCs) and how proposed medical systems would satisfy their needs. The technology panels concentrated on exploring the investment and execution implications for the Science and Technology programs to acquire the capabilities necessary to support AAN-era Hybrid Forces.
INSIGHTS RAND analysts developed a number of insights through their participation in the workshop. These insights and, in some cases, recommendations from the analysts, are keyed to the panel as follows.
Functional Panel Insights Medical Informatics/C4ISR. Given the explosion in information technology, the ability of the Army (or DoD) for independent development of nonmilitary specific applications is doubtful. The AMEDD must exploit opportunities to leverage the work of others in this arena. CSS/Evacuation/Hospitaliza