To: Rick Kunz who wrote (2311 ) 4/4/1999 3:43:00 AM From: dwight martin Read Replies (1) | Respond to
The relevant text from a one-page "VCOP Fact Sheet" I got via EMail from the Project Manager:"The Virtual Cockpit Optimization Program (VCOP) will integrate independently developed, advanced technologies into a single system. VCOP component technologies include a Virtual Retinal Display (VRD); fully integrated three-dimensional cockpit audio technologies to include three-dimensional audio, speech recognition and synthesis, and Integrated Caution, Warning, Advisory; an electronic data manager knee-board; and Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) software. These technologies will enhance the pilot's intuitiveness, situational and threat awareness and effectiveness while providing a cost-effective means of modernizing legacy aircraft. In FY99, VCOP capabilities will be demonstrated on a simulator at the Advanced Prototyping, Engineering, and eXperimentation (APEX) Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal. VCOP will begin flight demonstration integration in FY00 and will be flight demonstrated on an UH-60 in FY01. asinc.com The Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) project is presently the leading Army Aviation RT&E program. It continues the development of associate systems from the original DARPA Pilot's Associate technology base, applying these concepts combat helicopter operations. ASI has played a growing role in this program as a systems engineering and knowledge engineering consultant, and supplier of the crew intent interpreter software for the RPA. boeing.com
