Readiness and Medical Solutions

Readiness and Medical Solutions Dr. Joseph Cohn, SoarTec Dr. Joseph Cohn is SoarTech’s Director for Readiness and Medical Solutions. In this role he focuses on applying SoarTech’s human-centric AI to delivering capabilities that support the Joint medical force’s ability to provide critical care across a range of threat environments. A retired Navy Medical Service Corps Captain with a Neuroscience PhD, Joseph embraces high-risk research to deliver technologies that ensure the United States military maintains its technical edge over its adversaries. Throughout his career, he has developed and directed numerous biomedical and human systems-focused Research and Acquisition programs for the Navy, Joint Force and International partnerships. Joseph oversaw a Joint team tasked with combining over $3B in Service medical Research, Development & Acquisition assets into a single Defense Health Agency -led organization. As Deputy Director for Human, Performance and Biosystems, he co-led and managed a $20M cognitive sciences and human performance international research collaboration through the U.S.–India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative. As a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, he led a Joint team in developing a capability for selecting Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Operators, which directly informed the Navy’s decision to establish their inaugural UAS Operator Community. As the Office of Naval Research’s first Deputy Director for Naval Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), he coordinated the Secretary of the Navy’s $180M STEM program with projects across all 50 states, reaching 200,000 students annually. While a Program Manager at DARPA, Joseph developed AI-based approaches that reduced the time to train and acquire expertise ten-fold, establishing a Navy-approved prototype training pipeline for new recruits based on this capability, with an estimated savings of $50M/year. Joseph has co-authored over 100 publications, co-edited three textbooks and chaired numerous panels and workshops, focusing on biomedical, human machine interaction and human performance-enhancing technologies. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Military Psychologists as well as Associate Fellow, Aerospace Medical Association.