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DARPA Awards $19 Million To Industry, University Teams For Enhanced Night Vision Goggles

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, January 14th, 2022

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DARPA Awards $19 Million To Industry, University Teams For Enhanced Night Vision Goggles

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last week awarded $18.5 million in contracts to 10 industry and university teams to develop prototypes and new concepts for lightweight, enhanced night vision goggles that aren’t a pain in the neck for the user and also improve night vision. Awards under the Enhanced Night Vision in Eyeglass Form (ENVision) program were made in two technical areas, one focused on developing multi-band, wide field-of-view planar optics and planar image intensifiers to demonstrate advanced…

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