that in 2024 the Army announced<\/a> it planned to eventually roll H2F out to all soldiers. <\/p>\nPart of that effort is the fielding of a \u201csoftware solution\u201d called the H2F Management System that is designed to provide soldiers, leaders and human performance staff with \u201cdata-driven insights that are typically only found within Special Operations or professional athletics,\u201d according to an Army release from last December.<\/p>\n
But as that fielding begins, leaders must decide what data \u2014 and how much \u2014 to display, said Command Sgt. Maj. Alex Kupratty, senior enlisted leader of Army Transformation and Training Command.<\/p>\n
Speaking at an event hosted by the Military Officers Association of America this month, Kupratty said he was concerned about troops getting bogged down in \u201cdata fatigue\u201d as the dashboards come online. He suggested that presenting raw data alone might not be most useful.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will tell you, I wear a Whoop. I wear an Oura Ring, and I tell you I probably look at half of the data that it provides me daily, and that\u2019s being very generous,\u201d Kupretty said. \u201cBut if I was to focus on things \u2014 when you start looking at return on investment, I would say physical readiness. Are we more resilient? Are we ready to fight and win our nation\u2019s wars?\u201d<\/p>\n
Data driving injury prevention and recovery, he said, was the second-highest priority.<\/p>\n
Tyler Christiansen, a senior operations manager with General Dynamics Information Technology, which is supporting the H2F Management System, said he believed input from Army commanders would help shape how data was presented.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to go to command and say, \u2018OK, what is important to you?\u2019 And then from there, you start to work your way down to, OK, we can capture \u2026 all the way down to the lowest level,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the lowest level, you know, it may be [heart rate variability], it may be tracking the sleep, it may be tracking the tonnage on a workout program, or what the diet plan is, and things like that. Absolutely, those things matter. But I think that you need to convey the data points up to command to show things like [return on investment] to show that you know the bean counters that sit way up top of why this is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christiansen didn\u2019t say whether the new dashboards would ultimately crunch the data to create custom metrics for optimum readiness, prevention and recovery. It\u2019s still early in rollout. The Army hasn\u2019t announced a target date to have the new management system fielded, but officials said in December they expect to have 129 active-duty brigades, four states within the Army National Guard and two Army Reserve commands equipped with H2F performance teams by fiscal year 2029.<\/p>\n
But leaders of the effort said they\u2019re aware that how they present information will determine whether or not soldiers buy in. Jonathan Flynn, the H2F program director with the 199th Infantry Brigade, said he had recently spent two days at Fort Benning, Georgia, evaluating three different styles of apps that soldiers might soon use.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need the soldier to want to use this management system so we can get the data that that organization wants to collect,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause in the past we\u2019ve tried it, we tried it at [the 75th Ranger] Regiment, we\u2019ve tried it at other organizations. They failed because we got to get the end user buy-in to wanting to use it. So regardless of what comes up, what we decide to collect and what we decide to use, what metrics to use, at the end of the day, we\u2019ve got to get that end user soldier to want to log into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear what specific wearables or data collection experiment Flinn referenced, although the 75th Ranger Regiment has been a destination for many human performance improvement efforts, including those that used wearables to track heat injury risk and broader soldier performance.<\/p>\n
In the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2027, another pilot effort will address the app and end-user experience, Flinn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s where I think our focus needs to be right now, and then we can figure out [heart rate variability] versus Whoop \u2026 those kinds of things,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can figure that out at the end, but we have just got to get them wanting to log that data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Army is now \u201cpre-piloting\u201d apps and dashboards for its popular holistic health system, and leaders are facing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[364552,26711,4427,364553,337,364555,364554,97,40453,29910],"class_list":["post-864127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-army-fitness","tag-circulated-army-times","tag-circulated-military-times","tag-data-fatigue","tag-fitness","tag-h2f","tag-h2f-management-system","tag-health","tag-holistic-health-and-fitness","tag-military-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}