Five seconds was all it took for the goggles to detect the forehead and inner eye temperature of troops.
“The Army has frameworks for operating in biological hazards. It just requires us to make adjustments.”
The goggle would go to "top tier" Army units first.
Now built into the process of designing, testing and fielding gear are soldier "touch points."
Researchers are using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 platform to design the goggle.
The Adaptive Squad Architecture will share data and power with nearly everything a soldier wears.
Soldiers wearing the new tokens would be automatically recognized just by getting near the system they need to use.
The goggles are fielding to both Army and Marine Corps close combat units over the next two years.
The system melds navigation, targeting, situational awareness and communications into a single device with advanced thermal and night vision.
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