Accelerating Warfighter Advantages with Tech Solutions
Tools and training increase efficiency and save lives
Soldiers can rely on advanced information and training to help them through the hazards of war, thanks to 无忧传媒 teams that help give the defense and intelligence community a technical edge.
The Challenge
Battlefield threats change constantly, requiring updates to be delivered to the field 24/7. Training must be fast yet thorough, ensuring military readiness in minimal time. Planning needs to be agile yet collaborative, creating strategic advantage for the next maneuver. How can leaders get more done in less time鈥攚ith increased safety? The military turns to 无忧传媒 for tech that moves the mission ahead.聽
The Approach
无忧传媒 scientists, engineers, systems developers, digital solutions experts, and other specialists develop forward-leaning solutions to give the defense and intelligence community the advantage. Each advancement we create gives us knowledge and resources to apply to the next, creating a continually evolving process while providing synergy between solutions and allowing us to develop solutions faster.
We鈥檙e energized by urgent needs. Since the U.S. sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, for example, more than 2,000 service members died, and 60 percent of those deaths are attributed to improvised explosive devices (IEDs). By helping soldiers avoid these deadly contrivances, we鈥檙e helping save lives.
The Solution
Here鈥檚 a look at just a few of the technologies and services we offer:
Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Training: Derald Wise is a 无忧传媒 VR/AR expert who leads a development team creating immersive training applications for deploying soldiers. Immersive training lets soldiers practice before they experience the real thing鈥攕uch as encountering an IED or employing Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Derald, a veteran himself, says that VR/AR helps soldiers 鈥渆xperience the same conditions and environments they鈥檒l be operating in, and in context with how they鈥檒l execute their missions.鈥�
Virtual training can also help recruits master skills they鈥檒l use in the field. For example, Airframes V/R increases the success of jumpmaster training by allowing familiarization with planes such as C-17 and C-130, integrated with views of drop zones on real-world terrain.
Virtual Planning Tool:Tabletop Commander uses immersive technology to help leaders in multiple locations visualize the execution of an Operation Order (OpOrd). After extracting key elements from a scanned OpOrd with Natural Language Processing (NLP), the tool adds data sources based on weather and location and provides satellite topology for the terrain, with the ability to link to real-time drone data.
Fabrication/Simulation: In addition to encountering potential threats in a virtual world, Fabricator William Maxcy and Lead Engineer William Dietz can replicate the real thing from pictures and other specifications of threats (IEDs, drones, etc.) that U.S. soldiers encounter. They make a copy鈥攕ame materials, size, and mechanisms鈥攊n a matter of days. It鈥檚 immediately implemented into training where soldiers are taught to identify and disarm鈥攂efore they ever get deployed. 鈥淎s veterans ourselves, if we can impart knowledge that keeps a soldier or his or her buddy alive, that鈥檚 a good thing,鈥� says Will.
Air Force鈥檚 Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS): Broadly defined as a weapons system, DCGS is an efficient, functional, and agile tool dedicated to processing and disseminating information to airmen. A cross-functional 无忧传媒 team is working with the Air Force to reimagine the capabilities of an international communications architecture by connecting multiple intelligence platforms. Most importantly, DCGS helps assess shifting battlefield threats鈥攁nd keeps warfighters safe.聽
