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High-Resolution Wide-Field Night Vision Goggle

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-08-M-6892
Agency Tracking Number: F081-010-0509
Amount: $99,953.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF081-010
Solicitation Number: 2008.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-04-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-02-22
Small Business Information
650 5th Street Suite 505
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States
DUNS: 119301831
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Browne
 VP of Product Development
 (408) 348-4426
 m.browne@saphotonics.com
Business Contact
 James Coward
Title: President
Phone: (415) 977-0553
Email: j.coward@saphotonics.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Night vision has been a key enabling technology for the past 30 years that has allowed US pilots to “own the night”. In many engagements, our dominance of the nighttime environment was the decisive factor in victory. One of the big disadvantages of night vision systems is that they have not provided pilots with good peripheral vision, since most have a total field of view (TFOV) of only 40 degrees. The PNVG addresses the need for wide field of view and has received very positive reviews from aviators. In the 15 years since the PNVG was designed, tremendous advances have been made both in the area of microdisplay technology and in the area of high-resolution digital night vision sensors. Our high resolution night vision system (HRNVS) will have improved resolution, 2) improved weight and center of gravity, 3) reduced peripheral obscurations compared to PNVG. Our decades of experience in designing head mounted displays convinced us that these three factors will make a compelling case for a new panoramic night vision goggle system. In addition, we have designed a novel helmet interface kit and mount which we believe will be lighter and easier to use than the current “banana clip” system.

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