Digital Night Vision Technology (DNVT)   3

Mission: To fight and win our Nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. In order to keep pace with advancements in technology, the Army must transition to devices comprised of digital sensors, image processing, and displays that are networked through an open standards architecture. Digital Night Vision Technology (DNVT) enables this transition for mounted, dismounted, and aviation sensor and display systems. DNVT provides fully digital, Night Vision Devices (NVD) coupled with component technology enhancements including fused visible through long wave infrared (LWIR) imagers, reconfigurable full color displays with high resolution and brightness, and image processing hardware and algorithms to enable enhanced augmented reality (AR) through an open standards network for improved Situational Awareness (SA) and targeting. DNVT provides a solution for maintaining a heads-up security posture by presenting all relevant battlefield and air data to the Warfighter on a heads-up display that incorporates improvements and upgrades at a component and system level to provide greatly enhanced resolution, sensitivity/sensing, vision, laser hardening and situational awareness. This will allow the Warfighter to keep their focus on rapidly developing situations while enhancing decision making. These and similar enhancements to DNVT will allow mounted, dismounted, and aviation Warfighters peerless overmatch in their access and ability to collect, disseminate, display, and respond to digital information.

The DNVT effort exploits and continues more than two decades of Department of Defense (DoD) Science and Technology (S&T) research, development, and investment into digital visible, low-light level (LLL), and infrared cameras, and image processing and display component technologies and integrated systems. DNVT will continue to evolve capabilities through development, integration, experimentation, and laboratory and platform test and evaluation, including, but not limited to, novel sensing modalities, hardware and software development, integration, networking, and operational integration with a variety of ground and aviation systems. DNVT will substantially enhance the Warfighter's situational awareness and decision-making abilities.