Microvision in the military

Microvision in the military

on April 02, 2004

Now, I am generally a pacifistic person. But if any country's armed forces is going to be the best equipped and most highly advanced technologically, I would want it to be the US.

The company has derived the large majority of its revenues to date from development contracts for the US Department of Defense. These applications include Virtual Cockpits for helicopters, and a variety of configurations of the Nomad technology for, among other uses, Mobile Medics.

It's pretty obvious that the US DoD really wants this technology which will allow each one of their members to operate more efficiently and with greater situational awareness. The scanned beam display technology in the Nomad and the VCOP platform is something that potential enemies (not that our country has enemies!) do not have and this is an obvious advantage.

If a Nomad can provide 39% efficiency gains to repair a car battery, what kind of benefit can it provide when bullets are flying and you need to discern friend from foe? Let's just say, I'd rather be one of the guys with a Nomad than without.

The recent deployment of 100 Nomad units with the Stryker Brigade to Iraq is hopefully a pilot program that will bring each of our servicemen and servicewomen a Nomad very soon. With our forces spread thin around the world, we need every advantage and capability we can give them for them to be as effective and safe as they possibly can be.

There are about a million more PRs about MVIS' work for the US DoD at the MVIS PR Archive.

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