Development of Evaluate, Educate, Exercise Approach to Stress Education (E3ASE)
Navy SBIR FY2015.1


Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.1
Topic No.: N151-077
Topic Title: Development of Evaluate, Educate, Exercise Approach to Stress Education (E3ASE)
Proposal No.: N151-077-0565
Firm: Design Interactive, Inc.
3504 Lake Lynda Drive
Ste. 400
Orlando, Florida 32817
Contact: Meredith Carroll
Phone: (407) 706-0977
Abstract: Chronic and acute stressors such as those experienced by Warfighters during life threatening situations may degrade performance and lead to long term negative outcomes. Therefore, it is critical to develop tools, for the military and beyond, to address the growing need for stress resilience training. Design Interactive proposes development of the Evaluate, Educate, Exercise Approach to Stress Education (E3ASE), a mental fitness training curriculum and software tool, comprised of mini assessments, lessons and exercises designed to increase an individual's mindfulness and resilience to stress. E3ASE will integrate mindfulness training techniques into training packages with little cost to implement and no instructor technical expertise requirement. The training package will leverage physiological sensors and validated human performance measures to gauge trainee progress and adapt course content to trainee needs. The approach will be easily integrated into current military school houses and designed to empower Warfighters to harness their physiological and psychological stress responses. Such a training curriculum will enable better human performance under stress and reduction in post deployment stress injuries, leading to increased readiness, lives saved and increased health and well-being of Warfighters throughout the deployment cycle.
Benefits: E3ASE will provide an easy-to-implement training curriculum and software package deployable throughout a range of military and commercial training courses with limited time, budget and technical expertise. E3ASE has the potential to result in more mentally fit Warfighters, better prepared for the stress of the battlefield, leading to:  Increased Training and Readiness: Improved mental fitness will lead to better human performance under stress resulting in greater mission effectiveness and more lives saved.  Improved Health and Well-being: Improved stress resilience will lead to fewer stress related injuries such as PTSD resulting in lives saved and improved Force emotional health and moral.  Increased Force Experience: Improved emotional health and moral will lead to increased retention resulting in increased experience of Force.  Decreased Cost: Fewer stress related injuries such as PTSD will result in reduced medical costs.

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