{"id":25609,"date":"2016-05-12T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T07:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:53:50","slug":"darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Working on New Night Vision Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense Department scientists are working on a new, digital night vision and thermal device that\u2019s smaller and lighter than the Army\u2019s latest Enhanced Night Vision Goggle.<\/p>\n<p>The PIXNET camera is designed to provide small combat units with a \u201chelmet mounted shortwave and longwave infrared blended imager with wireless networking capability,\u201d according to officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the May 11 DARPA Demo day at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, soldiers use the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle, or ENVG. The Army began fielding the first generation of the ENVG in 2009 and has since fielded a slightly improve version in the ENVG II.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/kitup.military.com\/2016\/05\/darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device.html\">http:\/\/kitup.military.com\/2016\/05\/darpa-working-on-new-night-vision-device.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Department scientists are working on a new, digital night vision and thermal device that\u2019s smaller and lighter than the Army\u2019s latest Enhanced Night Vision Goggle. The PIXNET camera is designed to provide small combat units with a \u201chelmet mounted shortwave and longwave infrared blended imager with wireless networking capability,\u201d according to officials from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50520,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions\/50520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}