Medical Research of Biomedical Impacts on Airmen
KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded a strategic contract to expand its health and human performance research and development (R&D) support of the 711th Human Performance Wing, a unit of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
Under this 3-year $20 million contract, KBR will provide scientific support focused on airman readiness medical research. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract leverages KBR’s existing R&D efforts at AFRL onto a new agreement with an increased scope of work.
Under the terms of the award, KBR will provide scientific and medical expertise to AFRL at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. KBR human health and performance specialists will investigate airmen readiness to include the biomedical impacts of air and space as well as cognitive and physiological performance. KBR will support aerospace physiology research in Wright-Patterson’s new centrifuge and research altitude chambers facilities in Ohio, as well as Neurology, Operational Vision and Enroute Care studies.
“With professional services ranging from biomedical to health science, human research and laboratory management, the Air Force regularly works with KBR to pioneer advances in human performance and medicine,” said Byron Bright, President of KBR Government Solutions U.S. “As a part of KBR’s Zero Harm culture, the well-being of our service members is always top priority. Our team is excited to participate in this critical research to advance the military’s understanding of the capabilities of the human body.”
KBR has supported medical research and testing with a focus on human health and performance for more than 40 years. For the past 10 years, KBR at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, has been the lead test and evaluation provider for aircraft and personal high-altitude oxygen and protection systems within the industry and for the Department of Defense and NASA.
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