Icuiti Corporation Announces Full Scale Production of Its Tac-Eye Wearable Display System for Military Applications; Company Chooses Local Manufacturers, Genesee Precision Molding and J.N. White Designs as Its Manufacturing Partners.ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Icuiti Corporation announces it will begin volume production of its Tac-Eye Display System. Icuiti will work with local vendors to produce components and electronics for the system. Icuiti will operate final assembly, quality control and shipping from its military production facility in Rochester. Initial production runs of 1,000 systems will commence in October, with product slated for delivery to several Department of Defense (DOD (1) (Dial On Demand) A feature that allows a device to automatically dial a telephone number. For example, an ISDN router with dial on demand will automatically dial up the ISP when it senses IP traffic destined for the Internet. ) customers. Development of Icuiti's revolutionary Tac-Eye Display System has spanned the last several years, with funding from a variety of DOD customers and support from Congressman Tom Reynolds. In addition to brining federal funding dollars for this program, Congressman Reynolds was instrumental in bringing local manufacturing partners to the production team, in his continuing effort to keep high paying technology jobs in Upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. . Both J.N. White Designs and Genesee Precision are in the Congressman's district. "In today's competitive climate it is easy to take manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. off-shore, to help reduce costs," said Icuiti CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Paul Travers. "The reality is that there are some wonderful companies in Upstate New York that are reliable, provide the highest quality solutions, and can be cost competitive. This product was designed from the ground up with our Warfighter's feedback. We felt there was more at stake in this effort, both for them and Upstate New York." "When high precision engineering and manufacturing is required for sophisticated programs like Icuiti's Tac-Eye, Genesee Precision is the go to engineered solutions company," John Erbland, CEO Genesee Precision Inc. said. "This kind of DOD/Homeland Security application is right in our strategic sweet spot and we are fortunate to have some of the best injection molding injection molding n. A manufacturing process for forming objects, as of plastic or metal, by heating the molding material to a fluid state and injecting it into a mold. engineers and component manufacturing workers in the world here in Upstate NY. We appreciate the very active role Congressman Reynolds plays in helping keep our local high tech workforce." "J.N. White Designs is privileged to be on the team with the great people at Icuiti, a team focused on delivering only the very finest cutting edge technology to our military, the men and women who commit themselves to serving our interests at home and abroad. We are grateful to Congressman Reynolds for his ongoing support. If not for his involvement, it's very likely this project and superior outcomes would never have come to fruition. It's through support like that provided by Tom Reynolds that we are able to maintain and expand employment and reinvest in plant, equipment, and training of our people here in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State." Based on the company's proprietary Quantum Optics Quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena involving light and its interactions with matter. History of quantum optics designs, this next generation head mounted display A display system built and worn like goggles that gives the illusion of a floating monitor in front of the user's face. The head mounted display (HMD) is a critical component of a body-worn computer (wearable computer). will incorporate a high-resolution goggle-mounted SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. display and will interface to a variety of computers and sensors currently fielded to our military forces. Icuiti expects deployment of over 10,000 systems in 2007. About Icuiti Icuiti Corporation's Tactical Display Group is the leading provider of wearable electronics solutions for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. military. Icuiti has been designing and producing microdisplay-based products since 1997 and has shipped nearly 60,000 display systems to customers all over the world. These products include remote viewing devices for thermal imagers, wearable computer displays, military certified micro display electronics, and rugged military head-mounted displays. Icuiti's products are proudly made in the USA. Icuiti is privately held with offices in Rochester and Tokyo, Japan. Visit us at www.icuiti.com |
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