Air Force wearable tech gives first sergeants a read on stress levels
New first sergeants across the Air Force will soon be wearing specialized smartwatches and rings as part of a program monitoring stress.
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New first sergeants across the Air Force will soon be wearing specialized smartwatches and rings as part of a program monitoring stress.
It highlights the efficacy of the algorithm-powered wearables to aid military readiness.
The wearable devices will enable early detection up to 48 hours before symptoms appear. The United States Department of Defense invented a wearable that predicts infections in real-time.
The new APFIT funding enables DoD to further the Defense Innovation Unit's use of algorithms to analyze biometric data from commercial wearables and predict infections up to 48 hours before service members' symptoms appear.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Active duty, National Guard, Air Force Reserve and tenant Air Combat Command (ACC) first sergeants stationed throughout the Indo-Pacific attended the annual Pacific Diamond Conference Apr. 11-14.This year’s Pacific,