Degraded Visual Environment
Abstract
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget request funds the development and integration of the Environment Exploitation System (EES) on Army aviation platforms to achieve a tactical advantage and increase aircrew situational awareness and survivability during adverse flight conditions. The Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) program portfolio includes DVE Army Directed Requirement (DR) and EES. The DVE DR is to provide DVE systems to 15 HH-60M Blackhawk MEDEVAC helicopters and 25 Special Operations aircraft. The DVE DR fulfills an immediate DVE requirement while bridging the gap between future DVE capabilities. The DVE DR system provides a forward looking, situational awareness, fused-sensor image for single aircraft takeoff and landing in brownout conditions. The program will complete development and test efforts in support of the DVE DR in FY 2019. The EES program focuses on development and maturation of active and passive sensors, synthetic vision, sensor and software data fusion, imagery processing, user interface, and multicore processing technologies to enable current and future capabilities and innovative technical solutions for the current Army aviation fleet to safely operate in DVE. EES will equip Combat Aviation Brigades with evolving modular DVE solutions creating revolutionary tactical advantages while increasing survivability. The DVE Increment I Capability Development Document outlining the DVE requirement for the UH-60 and CH-47 to takeoff, land and perform ground taxi operations in brownout conditions was removed from Army staffing in February 2018.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- EW7_0604201A_5_2040_PB_2020
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