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National Defense August 2013 Dan Parsons |
Google Glass Eyed for Wearable Soldier Gear Army officials have been after a way to outfit soldiers with wearable computers for years, but have repeatedly failed to find a system that both delivers information coherently and avoids impairing troops' perception of the battlefield. |
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna |
New Technologies Fuel Advancements in Night Vision Goggles Unlike the massive acquisition programs for fighter jets and combat vehicles, night vision technologies need to be refreshed every few years in order for troops to maintain their edge against adversaries. |
National Defense October 2011 Grace V. Jean |
An Augmented Reality System to Create 'Digital Graffiti' The wearable prototype comprises a commercial laptop that connects to a pair of sunglasses with a built-in video display. Users wearing the glasses will see a video representation of the real world captured by two cameras located on the frame's opposite sides. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Flexible and Wearable Display Technologies Are Critical to Today's Dismounted Soldiers The U.S. Department of Defense is increasingly investing in the advancement of display technology for military applications. The U.S. Army, in particular, is a driving force in the acceleration of display technology for defense environments. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 John McHale |
Wired and Ready to Wear Military systems designers are adapting and fielding wearable computers perfected in the commercial world for defense personnel worldwide. |
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons |
Wearable Computers Closer to Combat Use With the introduction of Google Glass, rumors circulated that the private sector had solved the wearable-computer conundrum the U.S. military has tackled for years. |
National Defense April 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Computers That Even Soldiers Can't Break In a few years, soldiers could pull from their pockets paper-thin mini computers that they can unfold or unroll to display maps, streaming video and the latest mission briefings. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 Ben Ames |
ITT picks Kopin display for Army night-vision goggles The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle helps improve mobility and situational awareness by providing the soldier with combined images from an image intensifier and a thermal imager. |
National Defense March 2014 Dan Parsons |
Industry Melds Smartphones to Rifles The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been seeking smart-rifle technologies for years. |
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Inadequate Displays, Shortage of Bandwidth Could Slow Advances in Night Vision Systems The military's night-vision capabilities are going digital, but displaying and sharing those electronic feeds could become a problem in the future if the dissemination of battlefield video today is any indication. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Steve Mann |
Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life Google Glass is much less ambitious than the computer-mediated vision systems I constructed decades ago. What Google's involvement promises, though, is to popularize this kind of technology. Here is what I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear. |
National Defense May 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Wearable Augmented Reality Display to Help Gather Intelligence Training troops in simulations that project virtual scenarios onto surrounding screens has become the norm in recent years. In the future, it could be possible for soldiers to carry their video games in their helmets. |
National Defense October 2006 Grace Jean |
Armies Around Globe Trotting out High-tech Warrior Ensembles In as little as two years, soldiers will begin wearing kits designed to seamlessly accommodate and connect all their advanced gadgets and weapons, effectively turning each individual into an informational "node" within the larger troop network. |
National Defense October 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Researchers Push for Advances in Night Vision Technology Night vision technology once gave the nation's armed forces an edge on the battlefield, but the devices have proliferated around the world. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Advanced Vetronics: Hit the Ground Running Industry heeds the warfighter's call for innovative, responsive, and reliable electronics in combat vehicles on the ground. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Flat-Panel Technology for Tactical and Strategic Information Display Accurate, reliable, and real-time information display in military environments, especially on today's digital battlefield, is critical to mission success. |
Technology Research News July 14, 2004 |
Retinal display guides near-blind Researchers develop a wearable computer that helps people with low vision see potential obstacles. The system will become practical in three to five years. |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Military Application of OLED Micro-Display Technology Low-power Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) displays are used in a growing number of applications supporting dismounted soldiers and commanders in situational awareness, thermal imaging, simulation and training. |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Soldiers Skeptical of Smartphones in Combat Commercial smartphones are lightweight, inexpensive and most soldiers already use them in civilian settings. But the Army is finding out that the devices may not always be needed or even wanted on the battlefield. |
National Defense May 2013 Michael Sloane |
Army Developing New Sensors and Lasers for Infantry Troops The new sensors and lasers will enhance the ability of infantry troops to engage targets accurately at distances, at all light levels, and in obscured environments. |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale |
U.S. Army's Pivotal Land Warrior System Close to Fielding General Dynamics C4 Systems is integrating as many as 500 Land Warrior ensembles and Stryker integration kits into a Stryker experimental battalion to conduct special tests. |
National Defense October 2010 Eric Beidel |
Army Makes New Attempt To Field Networked Soldier System The Army is making another attempt to connect infantrymen to the battlefield network with a wearable system of hands-free computers and radios. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 |
Display technology leaps to the next generation Liquid-crystal displays still dominate military and aerospace applications, but new technologies are set to introduce flexible, conformal displays that could be part of clothing or rolled up like a scroll. |
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Davin Coburn |
Land Warrior System: Inside the Pentagon's New High-Tech Gear The 16-pound system has a dozen pieces of new gear and plugs infantrymen into the global battlefield network, but not all the soldiers like the hardware. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Elise Ackerman |
Google Gets in Your Face Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality. Google has been priming the public for the launch of Google Glass, a head-mounted, Internet-enabled display that -- if you buy the hype -- will revolutionize computing and totally rock your world. |
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Shachtman & Coburn |
The Army's New Land Warrior Gear: Why Soldiers Don't Like It There's a half-billion dollars invested in the gear hanging off the heads, chests and backs of the soldiers. But do the soldiers find all the high tech gear useful?... The global battlefield... |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Rod Furlan |
Build Your Own Google Glass A wearable computer that displays information and records video |
Defense Update Issue 2, 2007 |
Modern Combat Gear for the Infantry New trends in infantry gear: Combat experience in the war against terror has reshaped military thinking. |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 J.R. Wilson |
Transformational Communications The world of military communications is on the verge of massive and revolutionary change, driving towards a networked battlespace. Still, what matters most is the person at the "pointy end of the spear." |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Wearable, Wrappable Displays Universal Display Corporation (UDC) has developed Flexible OLED (FOLED) technology that will offer significant performance advantages over LCD displays that are built on rigid glass substrates and contain a bulky backlight. |
InternetNews October 23, 2009 |
Augmented Reality Apps Could Reap Big Ad Bucks Advertising on new augmented reality smartphone apps will be big business, according to a new study. |
National Defense October 2015 Jon Harper |
The Army Wants to Power Up Dismounted Soldiers As the demand for power for dismounted troops grows, U.S. military researchers and industry are looking for cutting edge technologies to both supply energy and lighten soldiers' loads. |
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna |
New Biological Technologies Will Grant Troops Super Powers As medical and biotechnology advances, the military's research organizations are putting more emphasis on creating super soldiers with improved performance, strength and the ability to better survive serious injury. |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale |
Wearable computers and the military: The smaller the better Demand for wearable computers in the military appears to be growing, and large-volume orders are not far away. Pilot production exercises which are now occuring should precede full deployment. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
GPS Navigation Tool for Infantry Soldiers Rockwell Collins is offering its Dead Reckoning Augmented GPS Navigation System (DRAGN) that enables soldiers on foot to navigate in cities and dense foliage when Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) signals are weak or blocked. |
National Defense June 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Military Seeks Flexible, Thin Computer Screens The Army Research Laboratory has partnered with another researcher in a $44 million deal to develop computer displays that can be incorporated as part of a soldier's uniform. |
National Defense December 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Simulated Warfare Gets Real for Ground Troops At a test range at Marine Corps Base Quantico, troops prepared for battle. Helicopters flew overhead, tanks roamed the field and the echoes of artillery fire could be heard. These threats, however, were simulated. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Mega video enables virtual window Researchers have put together a camera and display system that displays full-motion video at nearly human-visual-system resolution. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 John McHale |
Military turning toward COTS displays Military designers are realizing they can reap major performance benefits at half the cost if they start using commercial off the shelf displays, especially in command-and-control applications |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Christopher Dabrowski |
European land systems: Maintaining profitability in a shrinking market? The main challenge for European nations will be to find a level of network-enhanced capability-data diffusion-that facilitates interoperability, contributes to battle-space situational awareness, leverages information flow at the tactical level and yet comes with a reasonable price tag |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 |
How Your Phone Could Augment Your World Here's how augmented reality applications will work in reality on your smartphone. |
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Research Agency Wants Help Solving The Seemingly Impossible The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a reputation for taking on challenges that sometimes seem to defy the laws of physics -- or at least common sense. Transparent Walls and Dirt... Building Simulators Without Computer Programmers... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Future Force is on the Move Tomorrow's warfighters are here today, years earlier than initially anticipated. The U.S. Army's Future Force Warrior program, under the umbrella of the organization's Future Combat Systems project, received a significant boost from an advanced technology demonstration last month. |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Sergio Catignani |
Motivating Soldiers: The Example of the Israeli Defense Forces Combat motivation is a key factor in enabling conventional armies to win conflicts; in Israel's case, it has been referred to as the `secret weapon' of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). |
National Defense December 2011 Eric Beidel |
Gaming Technology Puts Soldiers' Boots on Ground The Army increasingly is turning to the commercial video game industry to create higher fidelity, less expensive and more portable simulations. |
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Display Times Two A new LCD technology from Sharp displays two different images at once. |
National Defense April 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Researchers Tackle Troops' Physical, Cognitive Challenges In order for troops to fight to the best of their ability, experts say the military must lighten their backpacks, reduce "information overload" and improve their physical fitness. |