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- Hi, my name is Staff Sergeant Geml,

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and this is Staff Sergeant Saetan,

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and we are EOD technicians here

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at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.

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Our problem that we're facing today

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is that as technology advances,

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our enemy is adapting to this technology

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and further advancing their technology.

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The Air Force needs to keep
up in order to maintain

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that proportionality and
keep up with our enemies

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as threats emerge.

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Right now, with our robot camera,

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we are dealing with 21st century threats

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with a 20th century technology.

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We are running a flat
screen, low-resolution,

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60 degree field of view
camera on a robot system.

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This simply isn't cutting it.

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It's not doing the job.

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What we're looking to do
is to outfit our robots

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with a livestream, 360
degree field of view,

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high-resolution camera system

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that will, essentially for the first time,

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give our robots and our robot drivers

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a perception of depth perception.

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And it will also give
them a panoramic view

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of the battle space while
they encounter these threats.

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- So, we've already tested the 360 camera

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with great results.

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Unfortunately, there's
no off-the-shelf product

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that we can buy right away.

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So we are requesting a Phase II SBIR 20.1

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with $100,000 to build this project,

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and to test it, here right at Dyess.