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	Director, Operational Test & Evaluation
FY97 Annual Report

TRANSCOM REGULATING AND COMMAND AND CONTROL
EVACUATION SYSTEM (TRAC2ES)

	Air Force ACAT IAM Program 3 systems Total program cost (TY$) $109M Average unit cost (TY$) $37M Life cycle cost (TY$) $222M Full-rate production (IOC) 4QFY98 Prime Contractor SAIC/Carnegie Group

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION & CONTRIBUTION TO JOINT VISION 2010

The mission of TRAC2ES is to combine transportation, logistics, and clinical decision elements into a seamless patient movement automated information system (AIS) capable of visualizing, assessing, and prioritizing patient movement requirements, assigning proper resources, and distributing relevant data to deliver patients efficiently. The system automates the processes of medical regulation (assignment of patients to suitable medical treatment facilities) and aeromedical evacuation during peace, war, and contingency operations. TRAC2ES will automate Global/Theater Patient Movement Requirements Center operations at HQ USTRANSCOM, HQ USPACOM, and HQ USEUCOM.

TRAC2ES will replace two existing legacy systems: the Defense Medical Regulating Information System (DMRIS) and the Automated Patient Evacuation System (APES). Neither of these systems can be economically modified to provide functionality that can be an integral part of the Global Transportation Network (GTN, DoD's transportation AIS) or the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP, DoD's deployable medical AIS). TRAC2ES supports the JV2010 concept of focused logistics by fusing information, logistics, and transportation technologies to provide rapid medical regulating and patient evacuation during crisis situations. It enables a deployed force to be more efficient in protecting lives and reduces the size of its logistic tail.

TRAC2ES was originally planned to be a module of the GTN. In late 1996, however, DoD decided to develop TRAC2ES as a separate system. Functional and technical responsibility were assigned to the USTRANSCOM Surgeon General, with input from the ASD (Health Affairs). In August 1997, technical program responsibility was transferred to the Air Force, and AFOTEC was assigned as the independent OTA.

A draft TEMP has been developed and is being staffed.

Since TRAC2ES is both a medical and a transportation system, the operational testers will need to be qualified in both fields. The system must meet the needs of the transporters, the medical providers (at both ends), and also the needs of the patients. The testers will have to deal with the technical challenges inherent in a new system with numerous interfaces, as well as the operational challenges of a system that crosses separate disciplines.