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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

CEO Sculley did a number on LCOS




and it provoked some nostalgia in me that he did not bother to shoot Kopin and their LCD displays as much as a dirty look. Moment of silence. eMagin battled Kopin (Legacy LTWS, Top) for years, first to get a toehold, Oasys first, later Insight for Remote Viewer and TWS, then Insight, Elcan then Exelis and the rest.  Now eMagin dominates the space. And it appears as they plowed LCD under LCOS looks like the next menu item.  A long bill of particulars detailing the shortcomings of LCOS displays in Fixed and Rotary. Last weeks multiple crashes should have been enough to convince the holdout skeptics of it's shortcomings. But I was surprised we heard SO much about helicopters. Last we heard was a few CCs back when PC mentioned something, maybe in the future with Apache. I think the tell here was the hundreds of Monocular NV Displays the Army procured from Intevac, not only NV but Networked Data Transmission replacing the one the Pilot is wearing in the pic above. I believe Apache NVG is one of the two Programs mentioned in the CC, the other I assumed was the Future TWS but it was mentioned in a different context so I'm not sure. It could be the Dismounted Soldier NVGs that was displayed by Exelis at AUSA.  GENIII NV but with, like the Intevac, the ability to receive and transmit data. Maybe we will get those announcements someday. I think the Future TWS Program will be divvyed up between L-3, Raytheon and DRS, forcing  the latter two to send the last LCD displays in the warehouse back to Taunton. Real "Mission Accomplished" eMagin, nice job, period. Addendum, sole source provider for Future TWS, so that means just Raytheon for Medium and Heavy Weapons, the Light TWS which is the largest component of the Program should be spread between the three.

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