Research

Decision Support

mLife
Mobile Healthcare Research Vehicle

A laboratory platform for exploring innovations in mobile healthcare and those enabling technologies that are critical to advancement in this important area of research. The vehicle provides a fully reconfigurable hardware and software environment for hosting multiple research projects simultaneously that are centered on broader challenges in mobile healthcare.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

Phylogenetic Analysis Analyst Workstation

Screenshot of the AgConnect phylogenetics dashboard consisting of a 2D map overlayed with various icon markers. The map is surrounded by numerous dashboard components, including a circular dendogram displaying gene diversity.

A system to investigate strain movement and divergence across both time and space, as well as track and compare disease history and spread across animal production systems. The system integrates sequence data from multiple sources, incorporates different sequence alignment, comparison, and tree construction tools, and provides various visualization and analysis tools for working with the data. This is one perspective of the AgConnect system.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Science and Technology Directorate

Competencies: Data Fusion, Data Visualization, Modeling & Simulation, Decision Support
Industries: Agriculture, Federal Agencies

Poultry Depopulation Decision Support Tool

A photo inside a chicken production barn overlayed with a laptop displaying the data entry screen for the poultry depopulation decision support tool.

A decision support tool for assessing supplemental heat requirements in barn depopulation during a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak.

Sponsor: U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY)

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Decision Support
Industries: Agriculture, Private Industry

Tex-TRAC
Texas Teleforensic Remote Assistance Center

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Support the Texas Teleforensic Remote Assistance Center (Tex-TRAC) telehealth program that provides a statewide sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) to serve rural and underserved communities in Texas. The interactive cart and iPad systems allows for identification of injuries and ensuring documentation is as comprehensive as possible, all while ensuring without sacrificing patient privacy, confidentiality, and expert care delivery.

Sponsor: Texas A&M Health

Competencies: Medical Technology, Decision Support
Industries: Medical, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas

UAT
Universal Audit Tool

Photo of the inside of a warehouse overlayed with a laptop displaying the Universal Audit Tool (UAT) interface.

Designed, developed, tested, certified, and fielded a Universal Audit Tool (UAT) capable of performing baseline audits via a non-persistent agent on local and remote systems.

Sponsor: U.S. Army Central Technical Support Facility

Competencies: Data Fusion, Decision Support, Data Visualization
Industries: National Security, Federal Agencies

VIDSS
Visual Interface for the Integrated Decision Support System

Screenshot of the Visual Interface for the Integrated Decision Support System (VIDSS) web application displaying multiple agriculture-related thematic maps and information dashboard components.

Decision support system that benefits farmers by improving effective use of water supplies through interventions in small-scale irrigation. Enabled the evaluation, selection, and assessment of the impact of small-scale irrigation technologies for smallholder farmers.

Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

Competencies: Data Fusion, Decision Support, Data Visualization
Industries: National Security, Federal Agencies

WDSM
Wildlife Disease Spread Model

Screenshot of the Wildlife Disease Spread Model (WDSM) web application containing a 2D topographic map overlayed with colored boundaries. Surrounding the map are several information and data graph components.

Designed and developed a wildlife disease model for Classical Swine Fever (CSF) within feral swine to address limitations of current models, support assessment of the wildlife risk, inform strategies to prevent wildlife interaction, and simulate disease spread, potential time to detection, possible control and mitigation strategies, and the respective economic costs.

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Competencies: Modeling & Simulation, Data Visualization, Decision Support
Industries: Agriculture, Emergency Response, Training, Federal Agencies, Local & State of Texas