Electronic Performance Support

Maintenance Repair & Overhaul

Problem: Maintenance Depots require quick turnaround for servicing and repairing multiple military platforms from ground vehicles to aircraft. As the equipment and vehicles become more complex, fielding a qualified staff of technicians, and keeping them up to date with the latest data and procedures, adds increasing cost and higher mean time for repairs. Statistics show that 60% of equipment life costs are for maintenance, 50% of all parts replaced are still good, and 25% of maintenance repairs require rework. In military environments, safety and mission effectiveness depends on "getting it right the first time" and on getting platforms back to the field quickly.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: Procedural steps and technical data are delivered to the technician or mechanic’s vision right at the point of task head up and hands free to perform the task. Augmented vision is ideal for Technical Training since personnel can be re-trained by simple changing the data.

Real-Time Monitoring

Battlespace Situational Awareness

(Ground – vehicles & dismounted soldiers)

Problem: Warfighters on today’s battlefields rely heavily on real time (situational awareness) information, which maps their locations with respect to enemy and friendly locations. Concurrently, eyes must be trained on the outside environment to monitor new developments / changes. Using conventional computers to access this information results in reduced awareness of the immediate environment, and in some cases results in “scope lock”, the condition that results in more time reading computer screens than visually monitoring battlespace situations. Mastering battlespace information is critical to soldier safety and mission effectiveness.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: Augmenting the user’s vision by providing critical battlespace information in the users field of view, in a see-through format, allows warfighters to simultaneously monitor their surroundings. In the case of vehicle commanders, more time is spent advancing in the “head out of hatch” position. Providing this critical Head-up, hands free information consistently results in improved mission effectiveness.

Battlespace Situational Awareness

(Aircraft - Helmet Mounted Applications)

Problem: The U.S. Military has determined that mission effectiveness (in supporting battlespace operations from the air) requires situational awareness of enemy and friendly locations. Blue Force Tracking programs (typically situational awareness information, which maps their location with respect to enemy and friendly locations) are chartered with digitizing the battlespace and presenting the information to pilots. Modern platforms equipped with digital cockpits that do not already have helmet mounted displays, can easily be upgraded with the Nomad Augmented Vision System Helmet Mounted Display. Analog cockpits also require digitized battlespace information, however, the expense of digitizing analog cockpits can be prohibitive since these platforms are approaching obsolescence.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: Older analog cockpits can now acquire digitized battlespace information without modifications to the standard cockpit instrumentation. Application of multiple Blue Force Tracking systems can be accomplished with minor mapping sysetm installation (Argus view, FBCB2, etc.) and the use of a Nomad Augmented Vision System.

Special Operations

Problem: Digital battlespace information is critical for Special Operations missions, but needs to be presented so that it minimizes distracting the warfighter from maintaining immediate situational awareness. Information must be minimized and related to the specific task at hand, to streamline operations. Mission critical information can include; maps tracking friendly and enemy locations, route to objective; targets, danger areas, and potentially video streams from unmanned vehicles.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: Nomad Augmented Vision Systems place critical information in the warfighters field of view in a see-through format. The result is increased situational awareness since the user is head-up and hands free while receiving information, improving overall operational effectiveness. Information will be continuously updated during sustained urban combat, or prolonged surveillance periods.

Unmanned Vehicles

Problem: Unmanned vehicles are small enough to be transported in backpacks, but the support equipment consisting of computers, displays, transmitters, and controls can be cumbersome. Beyond the flight controls for Unmanned vehicles is generally computer and transmitter with display monitors for operating in or near the battlespace. Situational awareness is compromised by the need to study the monitors during flight.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: By augmenting the Unmanned Vehicle operator’s vision with pertinent flight and video information in a sunlight readable, see-through display, allows the user to be more aware of the outside environment. Also, the user is able to be mobile when using this system, and while it is limited in range, the user can perform operations more covertly.

Flight Surveillance Systems

Problem: During flight missions for airborne surveillance, tracking and operations against the transportation of illicit narcotics, and enemy hostilities, pilots face a number of challenges. Long duration night flights (exceeding 4 hours) over water navigation, in instrument meteorological conditions, low flight near obstructions, and potential instrument failure are some of the hazards that have resulted in catastrophes. Much of the operation is controlled from the operators in the rear of the airplane directing the pilot based on information they received from sensors (such as FLIR, Night Vision sensors, etc.) To reduce or eliminate some of the challenging risks, pilots need to take a more active role by acquiring real time sensor information.

Nomad Augmented Vision Advantage: By presenting sensor information to the pilot it is much easier to lock on to FLIR images fast, and maintain surveillance while maintaining flight situational awareness. This includes evading potential hostile enemy locations, or negotiating routes through bad weather.