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    Transforming battlefield casualty care

    DARPA is focusing on the Live Chain: The critical steps of tactical combat casualty care that bridge the gap between injury on the battlefield and arrival at surgical care. The Live Chain encompasses self-aid, buddy-aid, medic care, en-route care during evacuation, and ultimately, surgical intervention.

    The aim is to ensure warfighters survive the pre-surgical period despite the increased time between injury and definitive medical care.

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    11 companies selected to enter second stage

    Following an initial assessment of technical concepts in the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), these organizations have now entered into a yearlong appraisal period.

    QBI aims to rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation — meaning its computational value exceeds its cost — by the year 2033.

    Read about the Stage B companies

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    Find the bleed

    The Medics Autonomously Stopping Hemorrhage (MASH) program aims to develop robotic systems to autonomously find and stop life-threatening bleeding inside the body, giving injured warfighters a much better chance of survival in combat situations.

    In large-scale conflicts, many warfighters die from injuries that could be survivable if they could get to a surgeon quickly. The biggest challenge is finding and stopping severe bleeding in the torso – what doctors call non-compressible torso hemorrhage (NCTH).

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