BBN Technologies

Accurately determining the demand for medical supplies is a lengthy, complex, and expensive process that requires input from numerous, dispersed data sources. The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool integrates the data sources and provides users with convenient and powerful tools to access and manipulate the required input data and to analyze results so that they can accurately project the demand for the medical items that organizations will need for their planned operations.

The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool is designed to handle the most critical medical logistics operations, including:

• Assessing the supportability of military Operation Plans
• Developing requirements for deployable medical hospitals
• Supporting logistical requirements for Homeland Defense activities

Sophisticated Tools in Simple Interfaces

The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool enables bottoms-up medical demand analysis for force structures defined in a user-input scenario. Users can:

• Define, visualize, and edit the force structure
• Estimate casualties, including wounded in action, disease, and non-battle injuries
• Project the resultant patient stream
• Identify and analyze the time-phased medical materiel required for treatment
• Project immediate and supply order quantities and schedules based on demand forecasts and user defined supply policies
• View, update, and customize treatment protocols

The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool

Cougaar Architecture

The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool is constructed using the Cougaar software architecture, a product of the Advanced Logistics Program. Cougaar is a modular, large-scale distributed agent architecture that supports development, assessment, and execution of complex business processes. Key elements of Cougaar include:

• Software agents -- representations of units and functions in the organization being modeled
• PlugIns -- domain-dependent software modules that capture functional business processes and provide domain-specific behaviors to individual agents

Databases

The Joint Medical materiel Modeling Tool currently uses data obtained from official U.S. military medical databases and processes. Appropriate data from other US government agencies and non-governmental sources will be incorporated when available.