Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need

During this AFWERX Phase II SBIR effort DTI will configure a scaled up version of its 3D/2D glasses free autostereoscopic display (year 1) that will be configured for testing and evaluation at the Gaming Research Integration for Learning Laboratory (GRILL) facility at WPAFB for use in KC-46 refueling operations (months 13 – 15). Subject Matter Experts and boom operators from then KC-46 group will use the display to perform simulated refueling operations and their actions as well as subjective impressions recorded, observed, and timed to determine whether use of the DTI display is superior to existing 2D and 3D glasses based displays in use and whether it quatifiably improves speed and accuracy. During the course of the display configuratiuon DTI will advance the display design closer to a commercializable desktop sized product for telerobotic applications inside and outside the military. DTI will build five displays – one for testing, one as a backup, and three to use as demos and seed units for future customers. After the first display is built, DTI will, with the assistance of a manufacturing partner, redesign display components, especially the back lighting system, optics, and case, to a more efficiently manufacturable configuration.