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Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force AT AT EASE ARMED FORCES Monday, May 29 San Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 FIFTY SIXTH YEAR NO. 50 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017 Weekly Contest Public invited to Miramar National Enter for a chance to win 2 tickets Cemetery’s memorial service ... 10 Courtesy photo AutoMatters & More rig. Gen. Russell Muncy, commander of March Air Reserve ... 23 BBase, will be the featured speaker at the Veterans Memorial Service at Miramar National Cemetery this Sunday (May 28) at 1 p.m. Catherine Fiorelli, president and CEO of the Miramar National Classified Ads Cemetery Support Foundation, will welcome guests to this year’s memorial service. ... 24 Some 600 San Diego-area vets and their families, active duty military, and members of the public are expected to attend the memorial service. Lt. Cmdr. 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Heads-up display to give Soldiers improved situational awareness by David Vergun tion automatically, he said. screen, so for example, if the Since about 2008, CERDEC, WASHINGTON - A novel rifle is pointed rearward and the Army Research Laboratory technology called “Tactical Staff Sgt. Ronald Geer, a the Soldier is looking forward, and industry have been work- Augmented Reality,” or TAR, counterterrorism non-commis- the image shows both views, ing to make this miniaturiza- is now helping Soldiers pre- sioned officer at CERDEC’s he said. tion happen, he said. cisely locate their positions, as Night Vision and Electronics well as the locations of friends Sensors Directorate, said that Also, a Soldier behind a wall By about 2010, the image and foes, said an Army strate- with TAR, Soldiers don’t have or other obstacle could lift was compressed enough to gic planner. to look down at their GPS the rifle over the wall and see be shown in black and white, device. In fact, they no longer through the sites via the heads- as well as a greenish mono- It even enables them to see need a separate GPS device up display without exposing chrome version, he said. A novel technology called “Tactical Augmented Real- in the dark, all with a heads-up because with TAR, the im- his or her head. ity,” or TAR, is now helping Soldiers precisely locate display device that looks like age is in the eyepiece, which Those systems have already their positions, as well as the locations of friends and night-vision goggles, or NGV, is mounted to the Soldier’s Finally, Geer said that TAR’s been fielded to certain units, foes. The technology enables a tiny, heads-up display he added. So in essence, TAR helmet in the same way NVG wireless system allows a Sol- he said. attached to the helmet. photo by David Vergun replaces NVG, GPS, plus it is mounted. dier to share his or her im- does much more. ages with other members of CERDEC is working on So what they would see, he the squad. The tablet allows producing more advanced ver- Pence to service members: Richard Nabors, an associate said, is the terrain in front of Soldiers to input information sions that are in full color and for strategic planning at U.S. them, overlaid with a map. they need or to share their have a brightness display that ‘You are the best of us’ Army Research, Development own information with others can even be seen in daylight. The observance of Armed Forces Day is “merely one more and Engineering Command’s TAR is also designed to be in their squad. The current monochrome ver- installment on behalf of the American people on a debt of honor Communications-Electronics used both day and night, he sions are also bright enough to and the debt of gratitude we’ll never be able to fully repay to Research, Development and added. David Fellowes, an elec- be seen in daylight. all of you who served,” Vice President Mike Pence told service Engineering Center, or CER- tronics engineer at CERDEC, members at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, May 20. DEC, spoke about TAR at the Furthermore, Geer pointed said that the key technological Fellowes said he’s not sure “Today, in communities large and small on Main Streets and recent Pentagon’s Lab Day. out that the eyepiece is con- breakthrough was miniatur- when those will be manufac- meeting halls, in homes, and in hearts, and in gatherings at mili- nected wirelessly to a tablet the izing the image to fit into the tured and fielded, but during tary bases across the nation, the American people are taking a Currently, most Soldiers use a Soldiers wear on their waist tiny one-inch-by-one-inch user testing, Soldiers expressed moment to pause, to say thank you to you heroes who protect our hand-held GPS system that ap- and it’s wirelessly connected eyepiece. their deep appreciation of the freedom, our families, and our very way of life,” Pence said. proximates their position, he said, to a thermal site mounted on image sharpness and contrast. The service members of today are part of a cord of service that but only if their device is geo-reg- their rifle or carbine. Current commercial technol- stretches back throughout American history, the vice president istered to their location. ogy compresses images into He added that the TARs will said. If a Soldier is pointing his or sizes small enough to fit into provide Soldiers with a much “In every generation, the sons and daughters of liberty from Geo-registration is the align- her weapon, the image of the tablet and cell phone-sized higher level of situational every corner of our country have answered the call of duty and ment of an observed image target, plus other details like windows.Getting a high-defi- awareness than they currently answered it with courage and self-sacrifice and commitment,” with a geodetically-calibrated the distance to target, can be nition image into the very tiny have and he said he fully ex- he added. “Their service and their sacrifice kept the flame of reference image. seen through the eyepiece. eyepiece was a challenge that pects that the devices will save freedom alive in their time, and now you’ve stepped up and could not be met with commer- lives and contribute to mission stepped forward to defend our freedom in your time.