I MEF and Navy Medicine Special Innovation Cell hosts live Project VALOR demonstration
In critical moments of casualty care, seconds dictate survival. I Marine Expeditionary Force is paving the path in advanced operational medical support through project VALOR, a partnership between I MEF and the Navy Special Innovation Cell. Project VALOR helps corpsmen and medical leaders share casualty information from the point of injury through higher levels of care. The system not only provides a near real time view of a casualty’s condition and treatment, it helps teams prepare for evacuation, patient care, and medical resupply in contested environments. Project VALOR - which stands for Virtual Advantage for Line and Operational Recovery - It connects medical information directly to tactical command networks. Using a tactical network\, corpsmen are able to facilitate real time triage communication using a tablet on the battlefield from the point of injury to the next echelon\, providing commanders with near real time analysis to make crucial decisions. “Project VALOR serves as the primary line of effort to vertically integrate operational medical telemetry into line C2 networks, delivering a near real-time resilient system solution to drive command decision-making across all operational echelons,” said Lt. Cmdr. Gabriel Rocha, the I MEF Chief Medical Plans and Operations Officer. For I MEF — a globally responsive Marine Air-Ground Task Force capable of rapid crisis response — VALOR is intended to strengthen the connection between corpsmen treating casualties on the ground and the medical organizations supporting them. Near real-time access to patient vital-signs and treatment data can allow medical facilities and forward surgical teams prepare for the incoming casualty. Teams can tailor operating room requirements, and stage critical medical supplies before patient handoff. At the headquarters level, the same information can support dynamic resupply decisions, helping medical units remain light, modular, and maneuverable while sustaining operations in distributed and contested environments. “In a battlespace, we typically wait for a nine-line for the next echelon of care to analyze, make a deliberate mission assessment, and then react to that need,” Rocha said. “With VALOR, we are given information to plan and anticipate up until the point where we are presented with a decision.” The system also supports clinical patient-safety analysis by documenting the care provided at the point of injury. This information can help the Joint Trauma System assess treatment trends, identify opportunities to improve care, and inform future training and procedures. VALOR is designed to operate in communications-denied or degraded environments. When connectivity is unavailable, corpsmen can continue using the wearable device to access available resources and document care. Once communications are restored, the system can transmit stored information to higher echelons. “Having the information made readily available can help tailor their response and preparations, as well as higher headquarters queuing for additional supplies that they might not have on hand, to stay light, modular, and maneuverable,” Rocha said. “It’s critical to thrive in this new environment.” “Whether it is in the battlespace or here in garrison, this information can help inform proper resourcing and our ability to perform the mission throughout the formation, not just based off point-to-point relations,” Rocha said. Ultimately, VALOR shifts medical health services support from an administrative and logistics function into the commander’s primary decision cycle. “Our true strategic advantage is our warfighting will — the grit to raise our hand, volunteer, brave uncertainty, and face life-threatening situations because we believe in what we do,” Rocha said. “I think that is probably the greatest advantage from VALOR: what we previously did from behind the curtain is now brought to the forefront, inside the line commander’s cycle. It is instantaneously being seen in the fully vertically integrated system — from the immediate section lead all the way up to the Pentagon.”
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