Virginia Tech's Arlington Innovation Center to Develop MedicPhone
Developers see project evolving to have civilian applications.
Virginia Tech's Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research has been awarded a contract to develop a field smartphone for military medics, the school announced Monday. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command awarded the $2.2 million, three-year contract to the center thanks, in part, to the years of combat casualty care research by the center's director, Seong K. Mun, and the graduate school's associate dean for the National Capital Region, Kenneth Wong, according to a news release. The center, at 900 N. Glebe Road, has partners in Seoul National University in South Korea for its Android expertise, and Irvine, Calif.-based Starix Technology for ultra-wideband communications interfaces between the phone and field medical …
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