Land Warrior Synthetic Environment Enhancements for Improved Targeting (LW SEE IT)

Reality by Design (RBD) proposes to research, design and develop an advanced situational awareness capability for dismounted warriors to use while aiming and sighting using the Land Warrior (LW) system. This new capability will focus on providingsituational icon overlays on the video from a LW weapon sight based on the information available over the LW tactical network. RBD will use a Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA) approach during an iterative development process to arrive at an optimalsolution. This approach will maximize the use of existing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software and leverage fully from other RBD dismounted infantry virtual simulation efforts. The system design and execution plan developed in Phase I will provide theframework and will facilitate the construction of an actual situational awareness capability for LW in Phase II. In Phase II, the RBD SVS simulation system will be modified to support advanced concept experiments and rapid prototyping to enable theGovernment to perform experimentation aimed at improving the LW situational awareness while aiming. The resulting system will be well suited and placed to provide a virtual simulation test bed for the Objective Force Warrior (OFW) program.Commercialpotential exists for fielding the capability within the LW program and for expansion into the law enforcement markets as the technology develops. Adaptations of the resulting technology can be applied to the architectural and construction markets forvisualizing planned or future projects by rendering the projects using computer graphics and superimposing and positioning them on real-world video using Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data. Development of LW SEE IT will support the OSCR Program byimproving the operational performance of the soldier while reducing overall training costs.