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HFM-MSG-375-RSM on Human Digital Twin in the Military: Findings and Perspective

The NATO STO Collaboration Support Office, NATO Modeling and Simulation Group and Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel will hold a Research Specialists' Meeting on "HUMAN DIGITAL TWIN IN THE MILITARY: Findings and Perspective". The in-person meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 10 - 12 December 2024 (Optional Ice Breaker, 9 December 1800-2000).

The meeting is open to citizens from NATO member countries and NATO partnership format nations: Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), Partners across the Globe (GP) as well as the following contact country - Singapore. Please note that this is an in-person only event (hybrid/virtual attendance is not possible).

This registration is for individuals who are attending the HFM-MSG-375 Research Specialists' Meeting.

The registration deadline is 22 November 2024.

Objectives:

The objective of this Specialists’ Meeting is to examine the use of Human Digital Twins (HDTs) in the military. HDTs are digital counterparts of real-life individuals, which capture and simulate the physical, mental and social aspects of a human. They are used in a variety of applications, including simulation and training, robotics, biomedical research, decision support and others. This activity is not intended to create a HDT or collect data useful in a HDT but to understand activities with respect to military relevant application. If successful, the Research Specialist Meeting (RSM) will drive a common understanding of terminology, an inclusive set of use cases, and an understanding of current capabilities to drive a shared vision of HDTs and their applications.

The specialist meeting will be conducted in themed panels to explore topics related to use of HDTs, including but not limited to the following topic areas:

  1. Human Digital Twin Use Cases
  2. Biomechanical Human Digital Twins
  3. Real-time Physiological Status Modeling
  4. Cognitive Human Digital Twins
  5. Holistic Systems
  6. Medical Human Digital Twins

The RSM seeks to develop and define a broad set of military relevant use cases as indicated in the topic areas. While the committee is interested broadly in these topics, the following list of detailed topics with accompanying descriptions are provided to further illustrate some known areas of specific interest.

The RSM will facilitate the information exchange on Human Digital Twins for military applications and related modelling and data-requirement through presentations on most of the above topics from research and innovation points of view. The outcome of this RSM should improve current studies on the subject, suggest areas for further NATO research activities and re-enforce the links with military bodies in NATO.

The main exploitation envisioned could support digital twin technology to help military personnel, operations, and equipment to be better managed, monitored, and improved. This could involve technology to create a digital replica of a soldier to accurately simulate the physical and mental effects of battle, or a digital twin of human that can be integrated with the digital twin of a weapon system to predict performance and maintenance needs, digital twins of training and operational systems to support tailored training. Additionally, HDTs could enable advances in tactics and strategy, or to improve decision-making in the field.

Prominent leaders, contributors and representatives from the military, government, academia, and industry are expected to attend the meeting.

HOTEL INFORMATION: hotels near UCF (Main Campus) for consideration, some options include the Celeste Hotel, Hilton Garden Inn Orlando East/UCF Area, Homewood Suites by Hilton Orlando-UCF Area, Hamton Inn & Suites Orlando/East UCF Area, and DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando/East UCF Area. The following link shows campus area and hotels from map near the meeting location: https://map.ucf.edu/.

TRAVEL DETAILS: Participants will be responsible for scheduling their own lodging and transportation.

Meals: Lunch, coffee and snacks will be provided at the venue. A cash refreshment fee will be collected at registration for those who wish to partake.

Evening Socials: The event will include an optional no host ice breaker at a local establishment on the evening of 9 November and an optional no host dinner on the 10th of November.

For more details about the event, please consult the meeting announcement.

*The general information package (GIP) specifying the logistics, accommodation, travel, etc. will be visible and ready for download on this website after your registration has been validated by the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO). After validation, return to this page, log on with your credentials and download the GIP from the grey box on the right hand side. 

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Tuesday, 10. December 2024 until Thursday, 12. December 2024 09:00 - 16:00

STB CPOW Challenge: A Systems of Systems Approach to Multi-Domain Defence Warfare

“A System of Systems Approach to Multi-domain Defence Warfare” is the scoping workshop for the STB Collaborative Programme of Work Challenge on Multi-Domain Operations. The workshop will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on 15-17 January 2025.

Participation is limited and will include the STO Panels and Group, other NATO Entities, subject matter experts, as well as the STB, in order to ensure appropriate uptake of the workshop’s results in future CPoW activities.

Wednesday, 15. January 2025 until Friday, 17. January 2025 09:00 - 13:00
Lisbon, Portugal

Aerospace Medicine RAMS / NATO STO HFM-395 Call for Papers

Technical Course Lecture Series Office
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The NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office and the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel

are pleased to announce

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

for the RAMS / NATO STO HFM-395 Technical Course

to be held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

on 18 - 21 March 2025

We are now seeking Presentations, Panels, Posters, and Working Groups!

The objective of this Course is to provide state of the art knowledge and practices in aerospace medicine, share national practices and evaluate new and emerging technologies on the subject of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance in its broadest context to NATO Flight Surgeons, by a group of expert lecturers from NATO nations.

The theme for the 2025 Technical Course is “Fighting The Next Fight". The course will cover the current and future challenges in Aerospace Medicine in deployed area and multinational environments, focusing on Operational Aviation Medicine. Risks and advantages of various approaches will be compared with the aim of recommending best practices and thus improving interoperability.

All details about the event, deadlines and the abstract submission format requirements are provided in the documents "HFM-395 RTC_Call for Papers" and "NATO-RAMS Abstract" submission form.

Deadline to submit the abstracts is until 06 December 2024 at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  

 

Thank you for your contributions
that are very much appreciated by the NATO community.

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT WILL BE OPEN IN JANUARY 2025

Tuesday, 18. March 2025 until Friday, 21. March 2025 08:00 - 17:30

HFM-371 Call for Papers Specialists' Meeting on Blast Exposure Monitoring in Military Training and Operations

The NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office and the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel

are pleased to announce the

 Research Specialits' Meeting HFM-371 on

 «Blast Exposure Monitoring in Military Training and Operations» 

to be held in Toronto, CANADA

09-11 April 2025

 

Aim and Objectives

The aim of this RSM is to build from individual NATO nation’s blast exposure research and inform standard operating procedures for collecting and analyzing relevant training and combat blast exposures as well as interpretation of the relationship between military exposures and health and performance measures associated with collected exposure data

Topics

 The RSM will accept papers including but not limited to these topics:

  • 1) Enhance understanding of health hazards from extreme environmental exposures resulting from repetitive use of weapon systems and explosives during military operations;

    2) Explore and define the range of health hazards resulting from repetitive use of weapon systems in current NATO operations;

    3) Explore technologies and methodologies for the valid and reliable assessment of blast overpressure, and the development of algorithms that can link blast overpressure levels to clinical outcomes;

    4) Develop a taxonomy of measures that are currently used to assess the impact of blast exposure on health and performance, with an eye toward developing a framework that can be used consistently across countries;

    5) Outline some of the personnel protection and medical strategies for prevention, mitigation and treatment of injuries due to exposure to heavy weapons in NATO personnel.

    The RSM will be organized around thematic sessions (determined in part by the abstract submissions), and keynote presentations. Demonstrations of concepts may be possible depending on requirements and availability of local facilities.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF or MS Word format no later than 30 September 2024 to Dr. Thuvan Piehler (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Dr. Oshin Vartanian (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), including on cc Mrs. Marie Linet (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Further details can be found in the embedded PDF file entitled “HFM-371-RSM-BEMMTO Call for Papers Final.pdf” located on this page.

Authors will be notified of the Programme Committee decision by 1st December 2024. Authors of accepted abstracts should submit a full paper version by 19th January 2025 (USA) / 1st February (others) 2025 in accordance with the paper template which will provided upon acceptance.

The RSM is open to NATO Nations, NATO Bodies, STOEOP, MD, PfP, GP and will be conducted at a NATO Unclassified level.

All details about deadlines and abstract submission are provided in the document "HFM-371-RSM-BEMMTO Call for Papers Final" on the right side in the grey square.

 

Wednesday, 09. April 2025 until Friday, 11. April 2025 08:00 - 17:30
Toronto, Canada

AVT-407 Call for Papers on System Qualification and Certification by Analysis

The NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office and the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) Panel are pleased to announce the AVT-407 Research Workshop on 

"System Qualification and Certification by Analysis"

to be held in Riga, LATVIA

tbd October 2025

(In conjunction with the 56th AVT Panel Business Week, date tbd October 2025)

The event is open to citizens from NATO Nations, Australia and Japan

 

Theme:

 The scope of the workshop is broad, covering the use of modelling and simulation to support qualification and certification of land-, air- and sea-based systems. It encompasses all engineering disciplines across the full system lifecycle. The programme committee particularly seeks contributions addressing the following four key thematic areas:

  • The development and use of modelling and simulation capabilities in the context of system qualification and certification.
  • Model assurance. Tools, methods and processes for establishing stakeholder confidence and credibility in model predictions and the use of model predictions for high-consequence decision making.
  • Simulation management, governance and regulation.
  • Education and Training.

The main objectives of the Research Workshop are:

  • To provide an opportunity to gather together experts, specialists and interested stakeholders with an interest in system qualification and certification by analysis;
  • To provide a forum to share existing knowledge and practice;
  • To identify and prioritize remaining challenges that require further research and development.

Topics to be covered:

Papers are invited in the areas of:

Modelling and simulation capabilities in the context of system qualification and certification:

  • physics based models
  • data based models
  • coupling of Physics and data-based models
  • machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • digital twins
  • model based engineering
  • model based systems engineering
  • use of physical test data in modelling and simulation
  • coupling of physical test and computational modeling
  • use of in-service data
  • digital thread and digital fabric
  • risk and rare even prediction

Model assurance:

  • model credibility assurance
  • verification and validation
  • uncertainty quantification

Simulation governance:

  • simulation process and data management
  • model and simulation management and governance
  • regulatory policy

And education, development and certification of suitably qualified and experienced personnel.

All details about deadlines and the abstract submission are provided in the document "AVT-407-RWS-CfP" on the right side below the map.

NOTE: Deadline for submission of abstracts is 02 March 2025

AVT-417 Call for Papers on Platform Implications for Hybrid Space Architectures for NATO Missions

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NATO S&T Collaboration Support Office

NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) Collaboration Support Office (CSO)

 Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT)

 

 Preliminary Meeting Announcement and

Call for Papers

For AVT- 417 Research Specialists’ Meeting

on

 "Platform Implications for Hybrid Space Architectures for NATO Missions"

to be held in Riga, Latvia

Date tbd Oct 2025

(In conjunction with the 56th AVT Panel Business Meeting, Oct 2025)

Contributions and participation are open to citizens from NATO Nations, STO EOP Nations (Australia and Japan), and New Zealand

 

Background

Space is considered a highly dynamic and rapidly evolving area essential to NATO’s deterrence posture and defence capabilities. In 2019, NATO’s Space Policy recognized space as a new operational domain, similar to the air, land, sea and cyber domains. This Space Policy provides guidelines for space systems to ensure that space assets are able to provide timely communications, navigation and intelligence for NATO missions. Through the use of advanced satellite systems, NATO is able to respond with greater speed, effectiveness, efficiency and precision, in addition to cost-effectiveness.

NATO Member and commercial space capabilities are vital and central to NATO operations and their economic security. They are increasingly threatened militarily by potential adversaries. To meet these challenges and retain NATO primacy in space, NATO bodies should partner with the space industry to rapidly transition to a Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA).

The main objectives of the Research Specialists' Meeting are:

To promote the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on Platform Implications for Hybrid Space Architectures for NATO Missions, which is vital for NATO defence. NATO is critically dependent on space capabilities and services to conduct military missions and related responsibilities of the Alliance in a responsive and efficient manner. These missions include homeland and global security, out-of-area peace-keeping missions with rapid reaction forces, and asymmetric warfare.

Topics to be covered:

Interested speakers are invited to submit papers on the following topics:

  • Multi-path, adaptive, secure communications, open mission systems, common standards
  • Edge processing, autonomous command and control/tip and cue, artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers, and reliance of on-board computational architecture.
  • Dynamic tasking algorithms allows adaptive mission planning using diverse asset capabilities
  • Technologies that enable secure operations, prevent cyber-attacks, and ensure data integrity
  • Rapid access to space, rocket payload integration strategies for hybrid space architecture
  • Low-cost commercial bulk launch, responsive and resilient small launch
  • Platform precision position and vector sharing requirements for hybrid missions.
  • Platform – Sensor compatibility, Distributed operations, Fractioned sensors and data fusion solutions, reinforcement Learning in Orbital Servicing
  • Commercial/Military constellation for on-board computational architecture
  • Mission level autonomy for constellation and survivability of mission operations
  • Intersatellite links for multi-orbit constellation
  • Cloud-based systems to realize platform-centric to information-centric paradigm to improve resilience in space system
  • Platform implications for HSA for hypersonic missile defence

 

 All details about deadlines and abstract submission are provided in the document "AVT-417_RSM_CfP" on the right side below the map.

 Note: Final date for submission of abstracts is 14th February 2025

Tuesday, 07. October 2025 until Thursday, 09. October 2025 08:00 - 17:30

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