Situational Awareness Enhancement System (SAES) for the Dismounted Warrior

Situational Awareness (SA) is critical on the battlefield to maintain warfighter lethality, mobility, and survivability while countering emerging threats. Increased awareness enabled by the rapid delivery of crucial information and enhanced vision through the Situational Awareness Enhancement System (SAES) will allow warfighters to quickly spot possible threats and make timely decisions. This additional knowledge, seamlessly shared with the warfighter, will help provide the overmatch that individual warfighters and squads require to defeat capable and determined adversaries in complex operating environments. This was demonstrated with the advent of night vision devices (NVDs), enabling the US Military to “own the night” by giving the warfighter the ability to see, identify, and act first in low light conditions. As technology evolves, a warfighter can have immediate information from command centers or other teammates immediately over an AR device. However, to date, no comparable AR devices are available to the warfighter even for tasks that do not require high fields of view, brightness, and/or contrast.