3DIcon Outlines Federal Funding Strategy
Referencing - Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)
Big Data Research and Development Initiative with over $200 million annually); the DOD's priorities to reduce the cost of developing, testing, and manufacturing new weapon systems, enhance training and operation of autonomous systems and accelerate data-to-decisions; and FAA's ongoing priority to enhance air traffic control systems. "According to Mr. Frietag, this process is already underway with the recent submission of a proposal to the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate.[color=red][/color] Additional submissions are planned over the next 6 months approaching $10 million of requests for multi-year funding.
Victor Keen, CEO of 3DIcon, had this to say, "This type of funding is considered revenue that is non-dilutive to shareholders and has become a principal focus of our fundraising efforts, in combination with other longer term financing options currently being evaluated. The commercial and academic partnerships we are building in support of these federal funding opportunities will not only increase our likelihood of securing these funds but will also ensure that we will have the right interdisciplinary teams in place to complete the development and commercialization of our patented CSpace® volumetric 3D display technology."
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NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE (NVESD)
REDCOM / CERDEC's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, located at Fort Belvoir, Va., is "The Army's Sensor Developer," conducting research and development that provides U.S. land forces with advanced sensor technology to dominate the 21st-century digital battlefield.
NVESD exploits sensor and sensor suite technologies to:
• See, acquire, and target opposing forces, day or night, under adverse battlefield environments
• Deny the enemy the same capabilities through electro-optic means and/or camouflage, concealment and deception
• Provide capabilities for night driving and pilotage
• Detect, neutralize, clear and mark explosive hazards including minefields and unexploded ordnance
• Protect forward troops, fixed installations and rear echelons from enemy intrusion
CERDEC NVESD leverages its explosive hazard expertise in support of the critical U.S. Humanitarian Demining R&D Program.
CERDEC CORE TECHNOLOGY AREAS
CERDEC provides the Army with technology and engineering solutions in eight Core Technology areas across command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or C4ISR, technologies' and systems' lifecycles.
CERDEC's technical agility allows for the interdependency of all eight technology areas, an operational understanding of their application and an extensive collaborative network to access and integrate innovation. CERDEC nurtures, matures and cross-pollinates its Core Technology areas at every stage of the acquisition cycle and feeds lessons learned back into the development process. From its vantage point, CERDEC can foresee trends and opportunities, rapidly leverage breakthroughs in the technology, and shape future capabilities.
The blending of technology areas can be seen in the work done to leverage common C4ISR and electronic warfare hardware and software to meet both areas of need and lead to significant reductions in size, weight, power and cost profiles on platforms while alleviating interference issues.
CERDEC is providing an engineering capability to collapse intelligence and mission command capabilities, building architectures that integrate cyber and electronic warfare assets, and integrating a distributed network of sensors to provide greater situational awareness.
CERDEC’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate researches and develops sensor and sensor suite technologies for air and ground intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition under adverse battlefield conditions in day and night-time environments.
INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE & TARGETING
NVESD delivers ISR&T technologies that provide actionable information that enables Soldiers to be aware of their surroundings and to perform their duties more safely and with increased effectiveness. This operational insight provides tactical and strategic alternatives for mission success and mitigates the risk of surprise attacks.
CERDEC'S CONTRIBUTIONS
CERDEC evaluates new technology in partnership with important Defense Department stakeholders and other agencies in support of the development of advanced intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting prototype systems, concepts, techniques and methodologies that address the asymmetric threat facing today's Soldier.
CERDEC focuses on contributing to the Army’s ISR&T mission by providing the research and development to enhance sensor, laser, radar, signals intelligence, and position, navigation and timing systems.
CERDEC’s sensor capabilities and investments directly support the Army’s strategy of evolving the force to meet the challenges of counter-insurgency operations while maintaining full-spectrum dominance. Investments directly support the Army’s strategy of improving the protection of expeditionary forces through electro-optical/infrared persistent surveillance, and perimeter and area defense sensors.
Intelligence and Surveillance
• NVESD delivers tactical, ground-based persistent surveillance, perimeter defense, and airborne persistent surveillance technologies to enable increased Soldier situational awareness, provide strategic alternatives and operational overmatch.
Reconnaissance and Targeting Acquisition
• NVESD researches, develops, tests and evaluates electro-optic/infrared (EO/IR) sensor technologies for airborne and ground-based reconnaissance and targeting under all battlefield conditions. NVESD also expands tactical use of laser designators and markers for precision engagement, day or night, while maintaining the capability to maneuver
Soldier Sensors
• NVESD researches, develops, tests and evaluates sensors, algorithms, processing techniques and lasers to enable increased Soldier situational awareness, mobility, target acquisition and target handoff.
COUNTER-IED AND MINE-FIELD DETECTION AND DEFEAT
NVESD investigates, designs, and matures hand-held, vehicle mounted, and airborne detection and neutralization technologies to improve countermine/counter-IED capabilities enabling assured mobility and increased survivability.
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