Pentagon seeks expertise to develop brain injury assessment standards

The Pentagon is looking to create standards to assess the impact of blast-induced mild traumatic brain injuries. The goal is to have benchmarks that will allow assessment of the “physiological and biomechanical effects of blast injuries” caused by explosions of enemy munitions or the blast effects from firing friendly weapons, according to the Request for Information by the Blast Injury Research Coordinating Office, or BIRCO , within U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command . This will enable “risk assessment of military service members who are exposed to blunt impacts resulting…