USSOCOM Grants $1.1 Million SBIR Contract to eMagin

The United States Special Operations Command  has granted a Small Business Innovation Research contract worth $1.12 million to the eMagin (News - Alert) Corporation. eMagin’s WUXGA Organic Light Emitting Diode microdisplays can now be enhanced and produced on a mass scale using this grant.

The initial investors in the development of the WUXGA OLED microdisplay were the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center. The display is only accessible to commercial OEM customers and military contractors as an engineering model. Different commercial and military applications will be now offered the 1920 x 1200 pixel OLED microdisplay in a cost effective manner through the SBIR project.

In a release, Andrew Sculley, President and CEO of eMagin Corporation, said, "With HD 1080P and higher resolution, extremely high-contrast (>10,000 to 1), and low power (<350 mW), the WUXGA microdisplay is our most advanced OLED product. The SBIR funding will help bring low-power affordable OLED HD resolution to military display applications, as well as personal displays. Products range from gaming and entertainment headsets with true 3D stereovision, to high-performance simulation & training systems and electronic viewfinders (EVFs) for high-end digital still and motion cameras used in both military and commercial applications."

The SBIR project is scheduled to be launched in February 2012. The project is expected to be completed by August 2012. The project can be further extended by six more months if required, for additional optimization of the display.