The NATO STO Collaboration Support Office, NATO Modeling and Simulation Group and Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) Panel will hold a Research Specialists' Meeting on "HUMAN DIGITAL TWIN IN THE MILITARY: Findings and Perspective".

The in-person meeting will be held in Orlando, Florida from 10 - 12 December 2024 (Optional Ice Breaker, 9 December 1800-2000).

The meeting is open to citizens from NATO member countries and NATO partnership format nations: Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI), Partners across the Globe (GP) as well as the following contact country - Singapore.

Please note that this is an in-person only event (hybrid/virtual attendance is not possible).

This registration is for individuals who are attending the HFM-MSG-375 Research Specialists' Meeting.

The registration deadline is 22 November 2024.

Objectives:

The objective of this Specialists’ Meeting is to examine the use of Human Digital Twins (HDTs) in the military.

HDTs are digital counterparts of real-life individuals, which capture and simulate the physical, mental and social aspects of a human.

They are used in a variety of applications, including simulation and training, robotics, biomedical research, decision support and others.

This activity is not intended to create a HDT or collect data useful in a HDT but to understand activities with respect to military relevant application.

If successful, the Research Specialist Meeting (RSM) will drive a common understanding of terminology, an inclusive set of use cases, and an understanding of current capabilities to drive a shared vision of HDTs and their applications.

The specialist meeting will be conducted in themed panels to explore topics related to use of HDTs, including but not limited to the following topic areas:

1. Human Digital Twin Use Cases
2. Biomechanical Human Digital Twins
3. Real-time Physiological Status Modeling
4. Cognitive Human Digital Twins
5. Holistic Systems
6. Medical Human Digital Twins

The RSM seeks to develop and define a broad set of military relevant use cases as indicated in the topic areas.

While the committee is interested broadly in these topics, the following list of detailed topics with accompanying descriptions are provided to further illustrate some known areas of specific interest.

The RSM will facilitate the information exchange on Human Digital Twins for military applications and related modelling and data-requirement through presentations on most of the above topics from research and innovation points of view.

The outcome of this RSM should improve current studies on the subject, suggest areas for further NATO research activities and re-enforce the links with military bodies in NATO.

The main exploitation envisioned could support digital twin technology to help military personnel, operations, and equipment to be better managed, monitored, and improved.

This could involve technology to create a digital replica of a soldier to accurately simulate the physical and mental effects of battle, or a digital twin of human that can be integrated with the digital twin of a weapon system to predict performance and maintenance needs, digital twins of training and operational systems to support tailored training.

Additionally, HDTs could enable advances in tactics and strategy, or to improve decision-making in the field.