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To: Rande Is who wrote (5984)	4/26/1999 1:30:00 PM
From: Trumptown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Hi there...anyone here watching PAIR...lookin' like it wants to go for a little run...must be all that publicity the con employee got!:) ECHO - no movement on positive earnings...hmmm, guess they need to lose money... SR

To: Rande Is who wrote (5984)	4/26/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 57584

TELT was a JR pick, and they are military>>SmartDART is the brainchild of a consortium called Operation Smart Force, formed from leading organizations within business, academia and the military. Consortium members are Raytheon Systems Company; Interactive Solutions, Inc. (ISI); New Jersey Army National Guard Training and Training Technology Battle Lab; and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Raytheon Systems Company, a unit of Raytheon Company RTNA , has been the project's program manager. The U.S. Army's Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) awarded this $1.2 million program to Operation Smart Force in December 1997 as part of the Science and Technology Initiative Dual Use Applications Program. During today's demonstration, an Army repair technician used SmartDART to conduct diagnostic and repair services on a modified Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1083 five-ton cargo truck. Dubbed "Smart Truck," the modified FMTV includes a communications data bus, electronic powertrain controls and intelligent subsystems. The Army technician, who wore a lightweight communications headset and waist-mounted pouch that housed the small Pentium(r)-based wearable computer, had to diagnose and repair five pre-determined system faults during the demonstration. The technician -- who had never worked on the Smart Truck vehicle -- received only an hour orientation on how to use SmartDART, which combines the portability of a laptop computer with the full multimedia capabilities of a desktop system. The Army technician used SmartDART's self-paced, easy-to-navigate mentoring and training capabilities to access key information from a portable, small flat panel display. Through voice commands, the technician accessed text, schematics, animation and video that enabled him to perform accurate diagnosis and repair on the cargo truck's system faults. This interactivity allowed the technician to call up, interrupt and redirect information that helped expedite the diagnostic and repair process. "There's no doubt that a system like SmartDART can enhance the training received and even replace classroom training by providing service technicians with just-in-time information at the point-of-repair," said Elio Divito, the Army's SmartDART project engineer. "Even though we have not had a chance to conduct a formal study, through this demonstration today we believe there is great potential that SmartDART will improve the efficiency of technicians in repairing vehicular systems and enable this equipment to return to service more quickly." The technology for this real-time, on-the-job mentoring device has been developed by Interactive Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Teltronics, Inc. TELT , and uses a diagnostic process to assist the technician. ISI's MentiSoft software supported the two-way voice communication capability between the technician and computer.