Due to the serious nature of providing personnel with information on debilitating injury, as it applies to lethal force, TORIS is dedicated to ensuring that the most current scientific information is the foundation upon which all of our curricula are designed. This ensures that personal lethal force curricula are based upon demonstrable scientific fact, which has been directly investigated and evaluated by TORIS as well as by our collaborative partners.

TORIS utilizes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating and evaluating all information prior to its integration into our curricula.  This approach allows us to integrate knowledge from relevant disciplines, including those of our collaborative partners, in order to continually form an improved understanding of lethal force and debilitating injury, and its associated responsibilities.  Additionally, this approach fosters change or expansion of the current knowledge within each discipline, which in turn, directly contributes to the scientific literature base as a whole.

Our collaborative partners are professionals, external to the TORIS organization, who are currently either conducting scientific research or working in the fields of trauma and sports medicine, injury biomechanics, combat training, education, neurobiology, law enforcement, and the U.S. military.  The information and insight realized from our collaborative partners are invaluable to ensuring we are providing curricula that meets the absolute highest of standards, which is that of meeting the needs of the operator.

The scientific literature base and current understanding is continuously being updated, including within the fields of study relevant to our work at TORIS.  This means that we are continuously improving our own understanding of lethal force and debilitating injury, and its associated responsibilities.

In keeping with the TORIS mission, to provide the most up-to-date scientific information, we actively investigate and evaluate current peer-reviewed research and professional information; continuously dialogue with our collaborative partners; and seek research grants to conduct original research in the areas of lethal force and debilitating injury.