Human Performance Optimization

Preparing the Total Warfighter

The MHS observes Human Performance Optimization month in an effort to promote force readiness, which depends on all warfighters and support personnel being ready to conduct assigned missions and operations. A fundamental premise within the DoD and MHS is that the warfighter is the center of our capability and the prime resource and key enabler of all warfighting systems. If our service members are not operating at maximum capacity, the entire system feels the effects.

Achieving human performance optimization requires that the warfighter, and the Military Health System itself, be continually honed and strengthened. Our goal is to ensure that all service members understand the resources available to them to be mission ready.

Resources Across the MHS and Its Partners

MHS Organizations

	Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP): CHAMP is a premier program for investigating issues relating to optimal operational performance.
	Department of the Navy - Navy Human Performance Optimization strives to develop our people to succeed in a world where high performance at every level is vitally important. Take a look at Navy HPO resources and conference information.

	TATRC The Human Performance Portfolio explores and applies scientific technologies and advanced physiological concept to optimize the readiness and performance of the service members. Military Operational Medicine Research Program The Military Operational Medicine Research Program provides biomedical solutions that protect soldiers and enhance their performance in operational and training environments that include multiple stressors. It is a unique biomedical research program with relevant program areas, a problem-solving orientation and a human physiology research.
	National Center for Telehealth and Technology:The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) researches, develops, evaluates, and deploys new and existing technologies for Psychological Health (PH) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) across the Department of Defense (DoD).
	Force Health Protection and Readiness This library provides Service members, families, leaders, Health Care providers, and veterans an easy way to find deployment health and family readiness information. Within this library you'll find access to fact sheets, guides, and other products on a wide variety of topics published by the services and organizations that serve you. You'll also find additional web links to other organizations and resources devoted to the health and well-being of the Service member and their family.

	An Evolving Charge to the Department of Defense Article This article discusses the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences conference on Human Performance Optimization in June 2006.