SPECIAL NOTICE
59 -- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training Assesment Analysis
- Notice Date
- 8/14/2012
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 921190
— Other General Government Support
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Navy, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Medical Research Center, 503 Robert Grant Ave., Contracting Dept, Bldg 500, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20910
- Solicitation Number
- N32398-12-P-0500
- Point of Contact
- Victor Hugo Hernandez, Phone: 6195249832, Edilberto P. Calma, Phone: 3013199298
- E-Mail Address
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victor.hernandez1@med.navy.mil, edilberto.calma@med.navy.mil
(victor.hernandez1@med.navy.mil, edilberto.calma@med.navy.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- STATEMENT OF WORK FOR ACQUISITION OF MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR) TRAINING ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF RESULTS 1.0 BACKGROUND Combat stress is associated with declines in several performance domains vital to success of special operations forces. In the extreme, poor adaptation to combat stress can detrimentally impact performance of the individual operator, which can negatively impact mission success. Failure to adapt to recurrent stressors can also have a cumulative effect resulting in impaired cognitive functioning, subtle neurologic compromise, neuroendocrine dysregulation, and unit cohesion. Close quarters combat (CQC) is a unique type of combat requiring specialized tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Proficiency in CQC is a foundational skill for Naval Special Warfare Operations Forces, as CQC is a common component across a spectrum of diverse missions. CQC is also a unique combat stressor, owing in large part to proximity of opposition forces in confined spaces and at close range. CQC environments typically involve identification of threats, target acquisition, and "shoot/don't shoot'' decision-making within an extremely compressed timeframe. As such, CQC training is designed to facilitate mastery of CQC skills under stressful conditions that place demands on the human stress response (i.e., autonomic nervous system; ANS). Demands on the human ANS are readily observable in the form of physiological response (heart-rate, breathing rate), and can be utilized as a direct measure of an individual's response to stress, as well as an indirect measure of an individual's level of effort and mastery of skills during training. Activation of the human ANS can also affect attention, concentration, working memory, judgment, decision-making, and fine motor function, all critical domains that underlie performance in CQC environments. Naval Special Warfare Training Detachment ONE (TRADET-1) has designed and currently operates a 3-week course of CQC instruction. Training is conducted locally in La Posta, California, and off-site at the Mid-South Shooting Institute of Self-Defense Shooting in Lake Cormorant, Mississippi. Instruction and evaluation of performance are provided by TRADET-1 cadre, as well as by staff of the Shooting Institute. Performance evaluation comprises subjective assessment of training staff and cadre who are subject matter experts. Additkmally, quantitative data for shooting accuracy and time are recorded for each shooter. Shooting data are utilized to determine "pass/fail" performance against predetermined Operational and Squadron cut-offs. 2.0 SCOPE Currently there are no objective indices of cognitive or physiological response to stress during CQC training. Moreover, individual shooters and troop leadership have limited data to inform evaluations of shooter performance and readiness for deployment. Because shot accuracy and time are representative of behavioral end-states in response to stress, such metrics fail to provide insight into hpw efficiently an individual shooter is responding internally (e.g., cognitively and physiologically) to the demands of CQC training. In example, two shooters may have identical scores on shot speed and accuracy; however, one of the shooters may be at or near the peak of their autonomic nervous systems capacity to respond. Although CQC training is stressful, it is reasonable to estimate that the added intensity of real-world CQC operations may place demands on that shooters stress response system that negatively impact tactical performance. Also lacking are objective data regarding the ideal or "gold standard'.' of cognitive and physiological response to the stress of CQC training to which all other shooters can be compared. 3.0 DELIVERABLES To address critical knowledge gaps in evaluation ofCQC the Warfighter Performance Department of Naval Health Research Center (NHRRC) will be responsible for coordination and execution of following tasks: (1) Identification and recruitment ofNSW operators to serve as a "gold standard" sample for cognitive, psychobiological, and physiological response to stress in CQC environments. The "gold standard" group will comprise senior operators with significant experience in CQC operations, select Team leadership, and personnel assigned to Naval Special Warfare Development Group. (2) Cognitive, psychobiological, and physiological markers of performance may include, a) combat marksmanship (hits, misses, shot time, rounds expended) b) heart-rate, breathing-rate: anticipatory, during training, post-training recovery c) aggressive movement: ratio oftime spent moving/time spent static (via accelerometer) d) posture ratio: ratio of time spent in aggressive posture/time spent standing upright (via accelerometer) e) biomarkers of stress and recovery (blood and saliva draws) The Naval Health Research Center is in rieed of 65 Equivital remote physiological monitoring systems along with the necessary software in order to ensure that the aforementioned data is collected reliably and can be downloaded and processed in a timely manner. This system will allow data collection to take place in any field location regardless of weather conditions with efficiency and precision.
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- Zip Code: 92101
- Zip Code: 92101
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