Recognition of Combat Vehicles (ROC-V)
Abstract
The primary outcome for Recognition of Combat Vehicles (ROC-V) is to enhance Air-to-Ground and Maritime combat identification capabilities, thereby reducing the potential for friendly fire. ROC-V is a training aid for ground forces, aircrews and ship crews that perform combat identification (CID) by visual identification of detected entities in the operational battlespace. It standardizes realistic Combat Visual Identification (CVI) training that is critical to both combat effectiveness and fratricide prevention. The program materiel developer for ROC-V is the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronics Sensors Directorate (NVESD), Ft. Belvoir, VA, which currently receives approximately $1.5M per year from the Army and Marines to develop, maintain and distribute a Ground-to-Ground version of ROC-V. Resources provided in this Program Element will support the NVESD expansion of the program to facilitate the development of Air-to-Ground and Maritime versions of the training program. The funding will be used in general to expand the ROC-V training program database by adding US, Coalition, and Threat-type vehicles, maritime environment/small boat threats, and all aspect/extended range air-to-ground imagery with emphasis on concurrent development of Coalition releasable products. Additionally, the funding will allow development of a standardized air-to-ground, all aspect and range CVI training program for pilots, aircrew, Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACS), and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operators. It will begin creation of a standardized maritime environment small boat threat CVI training program and begin the development of a deployable/portable CVI training capability. It also supports standardization efforts to incorporate these visual signatures into a Sensor Signatures Database Program for non-cooperative target identification. Primary Outputs and Efficiencies to be demonstrated: 1) Expansion of data Collection / Range Support for additional combat vehicles and Navy littoral watercraft 2) Improved processing, integration, and design of ROC-V modules for a standardized Joint A-to-G training aid 3) Expansion of personnel capable of supporting data field collection 4) Increased collection of mid-wave (3-5 micron), long-wave (8-12 micron) and short-wave (1-2 micron) thermal images 5) Expansion of Thermal and Daylight Visible images by 85-100 tactical vehicles and littoral watercraft for the A-to-G CVI training aid to include 60, 45, 25, and 15 look-down slant angles at select ranges.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- e42915d23e31e824a96d0dfae72d32c0