JISDA Establishes Medical and Biotech Consortium 'RESCUE' Aiming for Social Implementation Starting from Defense
JISDA Inc. has established the consortium 'RESCUE' to adapt tactical medical insights gained in defense to Japan's needs and expand them into disaster response and community healthcare applications.
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JISDA Inc. (Japan Integrated Security Design Agency, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Shota Kunii, hereinafter "JISDA") has established "RESCUE," a consortium to promote research and development concerning tactical medicine, human performance improvement, utilization of biometric data, reduction of cognitive load, CBRN response, etc., in the defense sector.
RESCUE stands for Resilient Ecosystem for Sensing, Cognition, User Interface, and Enhancement. While learning from insights gained from actual combat environments such as Ukraine, it aims to foster solutions tailored to Japan's defense needs and expand those results to disaster prevention, emergency medicine, community medicine, healthcare, etc.
JISDA considers defense not as a special, closed area, but as an area for advanced implementation where technology and operations are refined under the harshest conditions. Solutions that can withstand conditions such as communication restrictions, difficult transportation situations, personnel shortages, information overload, and decision-making in extreme environments have high applicability in a wide range of fields, including disaster response, emergency transport, telemedicine, community medicine, and public safety. RESCUE is a foundation for research and development, system formation, and market formation to connect technologies whose reliability and implementability have been polished starting from defense to improving the resilience of society as a whole.
## Background of Establishment
In Ukraine, the mass deployment of FPV drones and various unmanned aerial vehicles has dramatically increased the density of battlefield surveillance and strike accuracy, significantly changing the nature of injuries from traditional gunshot wounds to shrapnel wounds, blast injuries, burns, and amputations. Furthermore, evacuation from the front lines has become extremely difficult due to the drone threat, prompting a shift toward tactical medicine based on the premise that medics cannot make immediate contact.
In this environment, the importance of self-care and mutual care by general soldiers has increased, requiring a redesign of education and equipment that includes initial responses not only for hemostasis but also for chest trauma, blast injuries, burns, and hypothermia. In addition, the very mechanisms supporting lifesaving are changing, moving beyond face-to-face treatment to include remote support via communication, procedure presentation by AI, and medical supply transport using unmanned aircraft and UGVs.
JISDA believes it is necessary to connect these practical insights from Ukraine to the research and development of defense, medicine, and biotechnology in Japan. However, the important thing is not to simply import foreign cases as they are. What is necessary is to start with the strict requirements of defense, nurture the technology into solutions suitable for Japan's operational environment, and expand those results to social implementation during peacetime and disasters.
In the defense sector, technologies that function reliably within limited time, resources, communications, and personnel are required. This is exactly why solutions that are effective there also have high utility in various social situations, such as disaster sites, emergency transport, isolated area support, depopulated area medicine, home/telemedicine, and local government operations. For example, initial life-saving support under conditions where patient evacuation is difficult applies to responding to isolated areas or mass casualties during disasters, and state monitoring through biometric sensing can be applied to safety and health management for people engaged in high-load tasks. UI and decision-making support that take cognitive load into account can be deployed not only for defense command and control but also for disaster prevention headquarters, emergency dispatch, and regional medical cooperation.
Even in our country, assuming scenarios such as remote island recapture operations, landing forces
RESCUE stands for Resilient Ecosystem for Sensing, Cognition, User Interface, and Enhancement. While learning from insights gained from actual combat environments such as Ukraine, it aims to foster solutions tailored to Japan's defense needs and expand those results to disaster prevention, emergency medicine, community medicine, healthcare, etc.
JISDA considers defense not as a special, closed area, but as an area for advanced implementation where technology and operations are refined under the harshest conditions. Solutions that can withstand conditions such as communication restrictions, difficult transportation situations, personnel shortages, information overload, and decision-making in extreme environments have high applicability in a wide range of fields, including disaster response, emergency transport, telemedicine, community medicine, and public safety. RESCUE is a foundation for research and development, system formation, and market formation to connect technologies whose reliability and implementability have been polished starting from defense to improving the resilience of society as a whole.
## Background of Establishment
In Ukraine, the mass deployment of FPV drones and various unmanned aerial vehicles has dramatically increased the density of battlefield surveillance and strike accuracy, significantly changing the nature of injuries from traditional gunshot wounds to shrapnel wounds, blast injuries, burns, and amputations. Furthermore, evacuation from the front lines has become extremely difficult due to the drone threat, prompting a shift toward tactical medicine based on the premise that medics cannot make immediate contact.
In this environment, the importance of self-care and mutual care by general soldiers has increased, requiring a redesign of education and equipment that includes initial responses not only for hemostasis but also for chest trauma, blast injuries, burns, and hypothermia. In addition, the very mechanisms supporting lifesaving are changing, moving beyond face-to-face treatment to include remote support via communication, procedure presentation by AI, and medical supply transport using unmanned aircraft and UGVs.
JISDA believes it is necessary to connect these practical insights from Ukraine to the research and development of defense, medicine, and biotechnology in Japan. However, the important thing is not to simply import foreign cases as they are. What is necessary is to start with the strict requirements of defense, nurture the technology into solutions suitable for Japan's operational environment, and expand those results to social implementation during peacetime and disasters.
In the defense sector, technologies that function reliably within limited time, resources, communications, and personnel are required. This is exactly why solutions that are effective there also have high utility in various social situations, such as disaster sites, emergency transport, isolated area support, depopulated area medicine, home/telemedicine, and local government operations. For example, initial life-saving support under conditions where patient evacuation is difficult applies to responding to isolated areas or mass casualties during disasters, and state monitoring through biometric sensing can be applied to safety and health management for people engaged in high-load tasks. UI and decision-making support that take cognitive load into account can be deployed not only for defense command and control but also for disaster prevention headquarters, emergency dispatch, and regional medical cooperation.
Even in our country, assuming scenarios such as remote island recapture operations, landing forces