HUMAN PERFORMANCE
Our greatest asset continues to be the people who serve our country. Through biological and cognitive research, we ensure the warfighter’s training and readiness. Every technology we develop is designed with human capabilities in mind.
INNOVATION AT THE CORE
The 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW) is a combination of the Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH) and the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), combining ideas, resources and technologies to position AFRL as a world leader in the study and advancement of human performance.
Success Stories
EN ROUTE CARE TRAINING
The En Route Care Training Department in the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, trains medical personnel across the Department of Defense to transport and deliver care to warfighters all over the world.
MECHANICAL VENTILATION
Providing care for combat casualties often requires the use of mechanical ventilation (MV) to provide accurate oxygen delivery and support safe, efficacious patient care during movement across expeditionary and en route care (ERC).
KC-46 REMOTE VISION SYSTEM (RVS)
The KC-46 RVS 1.0 design resulted in degraded air refueling performance relative to the legacy tankers.
BIOTECH
Biotechnology is an engineering discipline that works with living systems to produce a wide range of technologies and products. Much like artificial intelligence, this disruptive technology will have global economic, socio-political, and military impacts.
RESEARCH ALTITUDE CHAMBERS
AFRL’s Research Altitude Chambers (RAC), managed by the lab’s 711th Human Performance Wing, are a family of four computer-controlled altitude chambers where researchers can perform a variety of studies to ensure the durability of flight equipment as well as to determine the effects altitude has on the human body.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRAINING
The Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska, is a medical training program offered through the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), in partnership with the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine.
