The Air Force’s Force Protection Battlelab has created a prototype device—the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe—to aid medics in the field. A medic in the field can quickly set up the portable battery-powered ventilator to help one wounded troop breathe, while the medic tends to another life-threatening injury. The new battlefield medical device is just one of several the battlelab, based at Lackland AFB, Tex., has produced or has in the works. Read more here.
The Air Force plans to have its new Integrated Capabilities Command stood up by the end of 2024, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said May 2, offering new details of one of the signature reforms announced by the service earlier this year. Allvin said around 500-800 Airmen will…