Skull Fracture Blast Injury Prevention Standards Request for Information (RFI) for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office (BIRCO)

Background
The Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office (BIRCO) is responsible for identifying blast injury prevention standards for the Department of Defense (DoD). The BIRCO coordinates DoD blast injury research investments to ensure critical knowledge gaps are filled and to accelerate the fielding of prevention and treatment strategies. The BIRCO advises the Executive Agent (EA) and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) on Military Health System (MHS) Blast Injury Prevention and Treatment Standards. The BIPSR Process, in collaboration with The MITRE Corporation, is designed to address the needs of all Services for biomedically valid MHS Blast Injury Prevention Standards to protect against the entire spectrum of blast injuries.

Work Details
The Request for Information (RFI) is for gathering information related to Skull Fracture in the process of identifying candidate standards for adoption within the DoD. The RFI seeks to obtain information on existing skull fracture blast injury criteria, thresholds, standards, and models that could be considered as potential DoD standards, as well as those being developed or researched that could inform the BIPSR Process. It also aims to identify gaps between existing knowledge and that needed to inform standards, give performers/producers of existing protection systems an opportunity to describe how they can assist in standards identification, development, and research, identify researchers who have developed or are developing blast injury criteria, thresholds, and testing methods, obtain methodologies, tools, models and simulations that may contribute to an upgradable platform for continuous integration of improved technologies, and gather information from a broad community on the availability of military-relevant blast injury standards.

Place of Performance
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) is headquartered at Fort Detrick, Maryland.