JOINT BENEFIT
A flight medic with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment hooks a hoist to an evacuation device called a jungle penetrator, which will lift two 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit Marines to a hovering helicopter during a casualty evacuation exercise Feb. 5 near Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The technologies introduced to military use through NPI have the potential to benefit all the services. (Minnesota Army National Guard photo by SPC Jess Nemec)
S
ome of the best product ideas originate outside the government, which is why acquisition personnel at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) stood up the New Products and Ideas
(NPI) website at
http://mrmc-npi.amedd.army.mil to learn about innovations developed by commercial vendors that the Army could adopt to assist the warfighter.
Since 2006, this website has collected and channeled more than 1,250 fresh ideas in areas as wide-ranging as combat casualty care, military operational medicine, medical chemical and biological defense and clinical and rehabilitative medicine. When news coverage of the Ebola outbreak sparked a tremendous response from vendors interested in collaborating with the Army to help curb the spread of the disease, the NPI team received 26 pro- posals for a variety of countermeasures, and USAMRMC was poised to assist Army Medicine with the influx of submissions.
Along the way, the command has learned several lessons that it is translating into site and process improvements that will make the NPI a faster, smarter and more user-friendly system. Tese include leveraging existing partnerships, introducing new sys- tem features and changing how work is assigned. USAMRMC will fold these enhancements into a next-generation system that it expects to release later this year.
NUTS AND BOLTS Users submit a product concept through the NPI site by first creating an online account. Te system then prompts users to provide detailed information about their product or idea and its relevance to the military, following a simple two-step, password- protected process.
Te NPI site alerts the appropriate subject-matter experts (SMEs) at USAMRMC, who then review the submission and evaluate its
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