EP 83 — Oura's Geoff Wylde on Building Wearables That Guide Troop Readiness and Effectiveness

Oura tracked an armored unit's gunnery qualification and found baseline heart rate variability statistically predicted top-quartile performance on weapons platforms. Their three-tier privacy architecture gives individuals AI-driven feedback, lets them share data with coaches by explicit consent, and provides command aggregate de-identified metrics. This information helps command know not only when to back off on training, but when they can push harder and how trainees are recovering.

Geoff Wylde, VP & General Manager of Health & Human Performance, discusses how Oura invested in NSA-approved hardware that operates in airplane mode for SCIF access and edge applications that sync intermittently with eight days of on-device storage for denied environments. 

Topics discussed:

• Tracking baseline heart rate variability to statistically predict top-quartile gunnery qualification performance on weapons platforms
• Implementing three-tier data architecture with individual insights, provider coaching access, and aggregate command-level readiness metrics
• Achieving 80% alcohol consumption reduction among special operators through biometric feedback loops from wearable ring data
• Building consent-based privacy systems using de-identified accounts where no personal information enters company databases for DoD
• Developing NSA-approved hardware with airplane mode capability and Bluetooth antenna for SCIF access and classified environments
• Creating edge applications with 8-day on-device storage for intermittent sync in denied environments 

Listen to more episodes: 

Apple 

Spotify 

YouTube

Website