Virtual Environment System

October 1, 2020

Charles River Analytics
Cambridge, MA
617-491-3474
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Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, recently received funding from the US Army to build the Virtual Environment Collaboration Tools for Operational Readiness (VECTOR) augmented and virtual reality (XR) system.

VECTOR uses synchronized virtual collaboration environments so distributed and dispersed mission command personnel can collaboratively plan, rehearse, and execute missions. VECTOR solves several problems faced by the US Army—mission command tasks are increasingly more difficult as global threats become more distributed, agile, and technologically advanced. Traditional and stationary command posts often suffer from degraded connectivity that limits communication and collaboration with distributed mission command personnel.

According to Arthur Wollocko, Senior Software Engineer at Charles River Analytics and Principal Investigator on the VECTOR effort, “VECTOR enables Commanders and other stakeholders to rapidly establish a virtual collaboration environment that promotes shared situational awareness and dispersed Mission Command execution, even under denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited network conditions.”

Commanders and soldiers can join VECTOR’s virtual environments through XR, mobile, and desktop applications. Once connected to a session, personnel can access a suite of collaboration tools that center on a 3D geospatial battlefield common operating picture.

The VECTOR system advances a deep understanding of virtual collaboration and data visualization in mixed reality. VECTOR augments commanders’ situational understanding, allowing them to support mission command across networks and co-locations.

This material is based upon work supported by the Army Futures Command (AFC), US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), Command, Power and Integration (CP & I), under Contract No. W56KGU-19-C-0059.

Charles River Analytics specializes in conducting cutting-edge AI, robotics, and human-machine interface R&D to create custom solutions for organizations.

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