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Navy Looks to Pro Sports to Boost Performance of EOD Techs and Divers

18 May 2020
Military.com | By Hope Hodge Seck

The Navy is adding new cognitive enhancement techniques and eyeing performance-tracking systems akin to those used in pro sports for two job communities requiring high degrees of strength and precision.

Officials at the Naval Diving and Salvage Center in Panama City, Florida, are finishing work on a $2 million, 15,000-square-foot tactical performance laboratory, to be complete by the end of the month, that will provide explosive ordnance disposal technicians and Navy divers with access to a new cadre of professionals -- all focused on boosting what the center's Human Performance director calls "the human weapon system."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/18/navy-looks-pro-sports-boost-performance-eod-techs-and-divers.html