SWIFT UNIVERSAL OPTICAL SYSTEMS LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: SOCOM191-003
SWIFT UNIVERSAL OPTICAL SYSTEMS LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $149,981
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Special Operations Command
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- SOCOM191-003
- Solicitation
- 19.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- NC
- Period
- 2019-05-24 → 2019-11-25
Description
The current method of stowing night vision goggles (NVG) on the helmet when not in use is a recognized source of acute and chronic neck injury. A mechanical solution that allows the NVG to be stowed in a position that reduces torque on the operator’s neck is required. Such a solution would reduce the users fatigue in operation as well as the likelihood of long-term chronic injury by moving the center of gravity (COG) of the helmet when the NVG is stowed to a more neutral position. Current night vision mounting solutions do not possess the necessary degrees of freedom required to sufficiently mitigate this risk. Research is required to establish the feasibility of a suitable solution. Furthermore, commercially off the shelf (COTS) solutions do not address several other known problems.