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Rapid Deployment Shelter System

Soldiers wounded in battle can land on an operating table within minutes, thanks to Y‑12’s new Rapid Deployment Shelter System. The highly mobile, rapid-setup, 400-ft² surgical suite provides tables, equipment, lights and supplies along with some protection against gunfire and nuclear, biological, or chemical contamination. Moreover, the system could potentially morph into a command-and-control center, operations base or similar unit for homeland-defense response actions.

The RDSS carries everything on-board to be ready to receive patients in 30 minutes.

Project manager Duane Bias, mechanical engineer Lee Bzorgi (recipient of two patents for the system) and electrical engineer Terry Brown maneuvered the shelter’s $7 million design and fabrication for the U.S. Army.

For more information, email Gary Gilmartin or call 865.241.1790.