SBIR-STTR Award

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) workflows do not effectively or comprehensively consider the potentially negative impacts of physical and cognitive degradation on human analysts performance. This is particularly true when analysts experience negative effects from fatigue or burnout, which they are unlikely to self-report. Occupational stress can impact quality-of- life, physiological function, and is associated with alteration in performance. S.A.Wyze has developed a biosensor platform that is well-suited to achieving this goal. S.A.Wyze will develop a specific product form that uses a Biopsychosocial Approach to Real-Time Health Monitoring for early detection of physical and cognitive degradation in ISR operators. This secured solution will utilize novel integrated technologies to create a holistic, personalized profile that includes physiological data from novel on-body biosensors,environmental and psychological data from mobile application inputs, social behavior data from social media accounts that feeds into cloud-based artificial intelligence engine.WearableBurnoutMental HealthHealth MonitoringSocial Media MonitoringCognitive PerformanceFatigue

In the United States Air Force alone there are more than 300,000 employees, and operational stressors on Air Force intelligence analysts increase the risk rate for clinical distress by 65%. It can take 1-3 years to train and replace an ISR analyst, and the Air Force is spending approximately $35k per recruit annually in incentives because of high burnout rates. Further, 40% of DCGS intelligence personnel report stress due to balancing marriage and family roles with their jobs. Living with burnout not only disrupts creativity, problem solving and working memory but creates a higher startle response, alters our ability to regulate emotion, leads to coronary heart disease and can change the very structure of our brain. The application of the S.A.Wyze biosignature platform has the potential to optimize and sustain peak analyst performance to increase retention rates by screening for the earliest indicators of burnout and providing preemptive action to "help service members stay in the fight and support the mission."