1 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:01,960 mm hmm , mm hmm . 2 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:07,640 Yeah . 3 00:00:13,300 --> 00:00:14,300 Yeah . 4 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:18,040 Here at NA 5 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,930 KD we enhance capability and 6 00:00:21,940 --> 00:00:24,560 operational radiance or naval aviation 7 00:00:24,570 --> 00:00:27,720 and our war fighters . Yeah , 8 00:00:34,140 --> 00:00:36,362 We're in the South Engineering facility 9 00:00:36,362 --> 00:00:38,307 here at Naval Air Station Patuxent 10 00:00:38,307 --> 00:00:40,362 River . And in this facility there's 11 00:00:40,362 --> 00:00:42,418 about 40 labs . Over a dozen of them 12 00:00:42,418 --> 00:00:44,418 are dedicated to some type of human 13 00:00:44,418 --> 00:00:46,251 system . So almost anything that 14 00:00:46,251 --> 00:00:48,140 touches the human will have a lab 15 00:00:48,140 --> 00:00:50,251 associated with it and the mission of 16 00:00:50,251 --> 00:00:52,362 it is to improve engineering design . 17 00:00:52,362 --> 00:00:54,362 So we have greater lethality of our 18 00:00:54,362 --> 00:00:56,418 operational courses and basically to 19 00:00:56,418 --> 00:00:58,418 promote aviation safety and prevent 20 00:00:58,418 --> 00:01:00,980 aviation mishaps . What's new about NA 21 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:03,320 KD ? We've expanded our air medical 22 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,542 capability to help with the engineering 23 00:01:05,542 --> 00:01:07,764 process . So this is the first time you 24 00:01:07,764 --> 00:01:09,876 met has been asked to provide war air 25 00:01:09,876 --> 00:01:12,130 medical expertise in house to include 26 00:01:12,130 --> 00:01:14,490 practicing clinicians , physicians , 27 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:16,111 vision scientists , research 28 00:01:16,111 --> 00:01:19,250 physiologists and audiologists . And 29 00:01:19,250 --> 00:01:21,472 that way the engineers have people they 30 00:01:21,472 --> 00:01:23,639 can directly go to and say , what does 31 00:01:23,639 --> 00:01:25,861 this really mean ? We're going to put a 32 00:01:25,861 --> 00:01:28,028 human in aircraft and have them expose 33 00:01:28,028 --> 00:01:30,250 them to this type of system . What does 34 00:01:30,250 --> 00:01:32,083 that really mean to be human and 35 00:01:32,083 --> 00:01:34,139 engineers are learning how much more 36 00:01:34,139 --> 00:01:36,250 complex humans really are . We're all 37 00:01:36,250 --> 00:01:38,361 very different . We come in different 38 00:01:38,361 --> 00:01:38,130 shapes and sizes and we have different 39 00:01:38,130 --> 00:01:40,510 human performance levels so we can help 40 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,290 them scale what they need to design and 41 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:46,356 engineer things that can incorporate 42 00:01:46,356 --> 00:01:47,967 all of us , all of our human 43 00:01:47,967 --> 00:01:49,967 performance . So we're safer in the 44 00:01:49,967 --> 00:01:51,800 aircraft and we can maintain our 45 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:54,340 mission capability . Several our labs 46 00:01:54,340 --> 00:01:56,440 include vision labs that look at eye 47 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,840 protection solutions and laser eye 48 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,910 protection as well , including night 49 00:02:00,910 --> 00:02:02,966 vision lab enhanced night vision and 50 00:02:02,966 --> 00:02:05,440 night vision goggles . We have altitude 51 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,662 labs that can simulate an altitude that 52 00:02:07,662 --> 00:02:09,607 an aircraft can achieve and we can 53 00:02:09,607 --> 00:02:11,551 measure the performance if they're 54 00:02:11,551 --> 00:02:13,607 exposed to those types of altitude . 55 00:02:13,607 --> 00:02:15,662 And we have oxygen and gas labs that 56 00:02:15,662 --> 00:02:17,718 look at breathing gasses , breathing 57 00:02:17,718 --> 00:02:19,551 gas mixtures and how well we can 58 00:02:19,551 --> 00:02:21,829 deliver oxygen to protect our air crew . 59 00:02:21,829 --> 00:02:24,600 We also have an entree performance lab 60 00:02:24,610 --> 00:02:26,810 so there we have color chambers and we 61 00:02:26,810 --> 00:02:29,630 can measure exactly how well our 62 00:02:29,630 --> 00:02:31,686 hearing protection can work and what 63 00:02:31,686 --> 00:02:34,160 can be done to improve it . And we have 64 00:02:34,170 --> 00:02:36,800 horizontal acceleration lab which also 65 00:02:36,810 --> 00:02:38,421 goes in conjunction with our 66 00:02:38,421 --> 00:02:41,160 crashworthiness lab so we can look at 67 00:02:41,170 --> 00:02:43,170 the survivability of an impact . We 68 00:02:43,170 --> 00:02:45,337 would have to understand the forces in 69 00:02:45,337 --> 00:02:47,392 a crash . If we can do that . If all 70 00:02:47,392 --> 00:02:49,614 else fails , hopefully somebody will be 71 00:02:49,614 --> 00:02:51,614 able to walk away from an event and 72 00:02:51,614 --> 00:02:51,420 then we have the environmental 73 00:02:51,430 --> 00:02:53,430 physiologic human performance lab . 74 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:55,807 They look at different environments we 75 00:02:55,807 --> 00:02:57,862 can put humans in , for example , we 76 00:02:57,862 --> 00:02:59,918 can turn up the heat and humidity in 77 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:02,029 the lab and put a human secretary and 78 00:03:02,029 --> 00:03:04,251 and have them test new safety equipment 79 00:03:04,251 --> 00:03:06,473 and we have to get feedback from people 80 00:03:06,473 --> 00:03:08,696 tell us how well they think it works if 81 00:03:08,696 --> 00:03:08,290 it enhances their performance or 82 00:03:08,290 --> 00:03:10,457 degrades the performance , we can hear 83 00:03:10,457 --> 00:03:12,679 directly from air crew about what their 84 00:03:12,679 --> 00:03:14,623 experiences are . We can gain more 85 00:03:14,623 --> 00:03:16,679 insight from that . We're very lucky 86 00:03:16,679 --> 00:03:18,734 that unfortunately , most of us have 87 00:03:18,734 --> 00:03:20,846 come from the fleet and we're used to 88 00:03:20,846 --> 00:03:22,512 mission specific tasking . We 89 00:03:22,512 --> 00:03:24,457 understand these labs with certain 90 00:03:24,457 --> 00:03:26,179 capabilities and that's really 91 00:03:26,179 --> 00:03:28,401 important . But what we want to know is 92 00:03:28,401 --> 00:03:27,900 how these capabilities will answer 93 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:29,956 questions for the fleet to get their 94 00:03:29,956 --> 00:03:32,067 mission done . If you have a question 95 00:03:32,067 --> 00:03:34,122 or an issue that you want someone to 96 00:03:34,122 --> 00:03:36,233 look into it , it's perfectly okay to 97 00:03:36,233 --> 00:03:38,400 reach out and say , hey , we have this 98 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:38,260 issue in the aircraft where we had this 99 00:03:38,260 --> 00:03:40,149 question about the human relation 100 00:03:40,149 --> 00:03:42,316 performance of this aircraft , because 101 00:03:42,316 --> 00:03:44,538 we're here for you , we're here to make 102 00:03:44,538 --> 00:03:46,482 you more mission capable . When it 103 00:03:46,482 --> 00:03:48,704 comes to the actual flight , we're here 104 00:03:48,704 --> 00:03:50,760 to make you more lethal . That's why 105 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:50,660 this organization exists . And the end 106 00:03:50,660 --> 00:03:52,549 result is we come back to you the 107 00:03:52,549 --> 00:03:54,438 answers you need to keep pressing 108 00:03:54,438 --> 00:03:54,260 forward .