SBIR-STTR Award

Night Vision Goggles Mission Rehearsal Night Labs Advanced Prototyping Test and Evaluation
Award last edited on: 4/11/2014

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : Navy
Total Award Amount
$2,062,188
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
N04-156
Principal Investigator
Ignacio Sanz-Pastor

Company Information

Aechelon Technology Inc

888 Brannan Street Suite 210
San Francisco, CA 94103
   (415) 255-0120
   sales@aechelon.com
   www.aechelon.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 12
County: San Francisco

Phase I

Contract Number: N68335-04-C-0038
Start Date: 8/29/2004    Completed: 2/28/2005
Phase I year
2004
Phase I Amount
$98,920
The objective of this research is to investigate various approaches to delivering first-principles, physics-based NVG simulation image generation for material responses and environmental effects in an affordable, deployable format to meet the needs of the various user communities. The expected outcome of this research is a deployable, affordable, physics-based NVG image generator for forward-deployed mission rehearsal, foreign area familiarization and training applications

Phase II

Contract Number: N61339-05-C-0126
Start Date: 1/21/2010    Completed: 1/21/2011
Phase II year
2005
(last award dollars: 2010)
Phase II Amount
$1,963,268

The Phase II investigation will result in the design of an economically priced part-task trainer for highly realistic introductory and refresher-level training of Night Vision Goggle phenomenology to aircrew. System will have the capability for courseware will be developed by instructors at the NITE Labs, and may be distributed to other NVG PTTs deployed world-wide.

Keywords:
Nvg Simulation, Nvg Stimulation, Night Vision Goggles