Defense Authorizations
National Center for Human Performance - Texas Medical Center - Houston, Texas: The designation will provide the appropriate recognition of the national scope of the project and its engagement with agencies, departments, universities, researchers, and numerous other participants from across the United States.
The National Center for Human Performance is a department in the internationally renowned Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center of its kind in the world. It has been established to develop, collect and record information that will maintain and enhance human performance in four areas: the military, space, the arts, and sports through the ethical and appropriate applications of research and education in medicine and related sciences. Needed research in human performance is being done in pockets across our country with different service branches not in communication or collaboration. The National Center for Human Performance would eliminate this "stove piping" by providing a center to link isolated researchers and enable them to communicate and advance the opportunity for enhancement and enrichment. It offers the capability to acquire, assess and disseminate human performance optimization solutions in such a way to provide researchers real time answers. A national designation will foster accessibility to real time solutions through strengthened capabilities.
With the designation as a National Center for Human Performance, the United States will have for the first time, a mechanism for our scientific community to establish a consortium that will achieve a data base for the acquisition of translation research and make it accessible to those who can transform the findings into an advanced framework for optimal performance. This language does not authorize funding and will not carry any budgetary implications.
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