FORGE: Personnel Accountability Engine
Real-time, WebSocket-powered headcount tracking built for military medical groups. Features a 5-tier RBAC system. Selected as a DHA Software Factory pilot project.
Client
19th Medical Group, LRAFB
Timeline
6 weeks
Role
Lead Developer / Product Owner
Technology
React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, WebSocket
The Challenge
Military medical groups rely on manual, paper-based, or spreadsheet-driven personnel accountability during exercises, real-world events, and daily operations. These processes are slow, error-prone, and impossible to audit in real time.
The 19th Medical Group needed accurate headcount visibility across flights and units, secure role-based access, instant leadership updates, and auditable accountability records.
The Solution
FORGE, the Flight Operations Readiness & Group Accountability Engine, replaces manual roll call with a real-time, role-based system designed for military medical group operations.
- Five-tier RBAC from Airman through Commander with JWT authentication
- WebSocket-powered updates across every open dashboard
- Flight-level and group-level views with drill-down capability
- Automated individual-to-flight-to-group status roll-up
- Event logging for accountability audits and after-action reporting
DHA Software Factory Pilot
FORGE was selected as a pilot project for the Defense Health Agency Innovation Cell's Software Factory model.
- React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, WebSocket, and JWT
- Built and deployed on Replit
- Five distinct permission tiers
- Session management and audit logging
RBAC Permission Tiers
Status Propagation via WebSocket
Concept to Pilot Selection
"FORGE demonstrates what the Software Factory model is designed to produce: mission-relevant capability delivered by people who understand the problem."