Integrated Warning Caution and Advisory System (IWCA)

Current audio generation technology, in combination with recent advances in human factors design principles for auditory alerting systems, offers the potential fora new design, an Integrated Warning Caution and Advisory (IWCA) system which willenhance crewsituational awareness during responses to abnormal and emergencysituations. The objective of this Phase I effort is to determine the feasibilityof designing and building a prototype IWCA which could function within the systemsarchitectures of current andfuture Army helicopters.An IWCA would provide improved crew alerting functions for the Army's severaldifferent helicopters. There is also a potential benefit for Department of Defense aircraft in general. Likewise, in the commercial aviation sector,anIWCA could provide the alerting functions that are now performed by a federatedsystem of individual alerting systems.