R-TRAC (Respiratory Threat Real-time Assessment & Control) is deploying the first autonomous end-to-end biosecurity platform leveraging scientific gold-standard qPCR technology across military treatment facilities, safeguarding military personnel and the immunocompromised patients they serve.
Led by SafeTraces · ARPA-H BREATHE Program
Sources: Defense Health Agency, About MHS (health.mil); DoD Defense Health Program Budget FY2026; U.S. Army Medical Command, DNBI surveillance data.
Military treatment facilities serve active-duty military, their families, and veterans, including large populations of immunocompromised patients whose vulnerability to airborne exposures is acute.
These facilities operate under continuous patient load, across diverse climates and building types globally. Like other hospitals and buildings, they cannot detect what's circulating in their air, much less respond to it rapidly and automatically.
R-TRAC is building the first autonomous end-to-end platform for real-time biosensing, risk assessment, and disease prevention to change that across the DHA network.
A microarray of qPCR (the gold standard for molecular detection) biosensor using a unique positional printing method to detect a broad spectrum of organisms autonomously with the highest level of sensitivity and specificity.
Software activates specialized building operating modes when airborne risk escalates, automatically adjusting ventilation, filtration, and air treatment to protect occupants before exposures occur.
SafeTraces datafusion platform integrates biosensor data with wastewater surveillance, epidemiological risk modeling, traffic, occupancy, and energy data within buildings to prevent infection and disease.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda is the world's largest joint military medical center with over 2.4 million sqft. of clinical space and 1 million patient events annually.
Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio is the largest military hospital in the United States and the Department of War's only Level 1 trauma center and burn unit, with 1.5 million sqft. of clinical space and over 1 million patient events annually.
Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, serving the Pacific Northwest military community with 1.2 million sqft. of clinical space and over 1 million patient events annually.
CEO, SafeTraces. SafeTraces is a dual-use technology company focused on predicting, detecting, and preventing biological threats through autonomous environmental biosecurity. A spinout of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
Read the SafeTraces announcement ↗Official SafeTraces announcement of the R-TRAC award
Coverage of the congressional briefing on biosecurity and indoor air quality featuring R-TRAC
Official ARPA-H program overview for the R-TRAC team
R-TRAC is building autonomous end-to-end biosecurity. Interested in learning more?
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