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Air Force Agency Wants Info on Personal Exposure Surveillance

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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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The Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity is conducting market research on Full Spectrum Personal Exposure Surveillance, which is an attempt to develop a sensor capable of capturing typical and atypical exposures to stresses, and providing a host system with the ability to relay the sensor data to other systems that will characterize the battle environment in a shorter time. This will make operational risk assessments more accurate using a more comprehensive approach to address possible health effects associated with…

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