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US services test wearable tech to improve soldier’s performance

25th November 2024 - 12:45 GMT | by Flavia Camargos Pereira in Kansas City

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Physical challenge event during an Army competition in Georgia. (Photo: US Army)

Developed by the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, the Lightning Platform is an app to assess warfighters’ physiology, metabolism and mental and cognitive status.

Warfighters from the US Army, Marine Corps (USMC) and Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) recently tested a wearable digital health and human performance software solution to individually measure service members’ health and enable them to improve their performance.

Named Lightning Platform, it is a cyber-secure and custom-built mobile app developed by the Center for Body Computing (CBC) at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), in partnership with the US Army and the DoD.

It can connect to a variety of body-worn sensors including Apple Watch, glucose monitors and medical-grade wearable devices enabling the platform to detect, record and display

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Flavia Camargos Pereira is a North America editor at Shephard Media. She joined the company …

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