Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars continue the #USArmy’s effort to modernize our fighting force!
The new ENVG-B has both night vision and thermal-sensing capabilities and “stereoscopic binocular depth perception,” providing Soldiers with an illusion of depth on a flat image, officials said.
According to 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers who field-tested the new technology, the new ENVG-B is a “game changer” providing Soldiers with a unique advantage against an adversary,
Soldiers testing the new device had a 100 percent improvement in weapons qualifications using that ENVG-B, along with a 300 percent increase in detection of targets in day and night environments, and a 30 to 50 percent decrease in the time taken to shoot a target, Hodne added.
8 FORT STEWART, Ga.– In order for the United States Army to remain an effective world-class fighting force, individual and unit equipment must be ready for combat. To ensure this, the Army is transitioning to the Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model, designed to align divisions across the Army with specific theaters of operations in order to support various missions.
However, after 20 years of fighting in the Middle East, many units have accumulated an excess of equipment that they can no longer use because it is outdated or broken.
“Units have a ton of stuff sitting in motor pools and storage facilities that are taking up space,” said Maj. Aaron Holker, support operations officer, 406th Army Field Support Battalion.
Army unveils $22 billion goggle deal with Microsoft Print this article
Mixed reality doesn’t come cheap. But the Army thinks a version of Microsoft’s HoloLens with a price tag of $22 billion will help troops in combat as adversaries such as China invest heavily in military technology.
The Army announced the 10-year contract Wednesday for a program that had already been in the works with Microsoft to create a custom high-tech goggle designed to bring night and thermal vision and situational awareness capabilities to soldiers in close combat. The Integrated Visual Augmentation System will lean on the tech giant to create a military-use device that uses augmented reality and machine learning that will also help train soldiers.
US Army is developing new high-tech goggles that let soldiers see THROUGH armored vehicles and move through urban terrain using digital augmentation technology
The Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) is being developed to address capability gaps in the dismounted close combat force
With IVAS, soldiers will be able to see through the armored Stryker and Bradley vehicles as if they have invisible armor
Both mounted and unmounted soldiers will get access to the high-spec goggles
IVAS has recently been approved to move form rapid prototyping to production and rapid fielding
The team behind the goggles is hoping to have hardware and software prototypes to the Operational Test scheduled for July 2021