daytaOhio completes CSAR research

DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- daytaOhio announced it has completed its U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory combat search and rescue subcontract on an integrated visualization platform.

daytaOhio is one of eight Ohio-based Wright Centers of Innovation focused on information technology. Under a $350,000 subcontract award from an SAIC Air Force contract, daytaOhio announced the completion of work on developing an IVP in an effort to improve search and rescue using sensor information.

Officials say the daytaOhio subcontract added on to previous work for the Air Force Research Laboratory where scientists researched how directional audio could be used to improve the performance and safety of CSAR teams in realistic combat situations.

daytaOhio's most recent work was an effort to enhance existing research by providing different views of a rescue mission by using a virtual environment that allows commanders to "see what is going on in the virtual environments and then integrate that with sensor and other information before passing it on in the form of directional audio signals," the release said.

"This is a real data integration problem of the kind especially suited to daytaOhio," Terry Rapoch, daytaOhio president, said in a statement. "It's all about bringing together multiple sources of data in a way that it can be integrated and understood and then provided to individuals and groups to improve their performance."

Officials say the IVP will "simulate sophisticated research and training environments with the primary goal of enhancing individual and group performance by integrating complex information from layered sensors and other sources and effectively communicating these to military personnel," the release said.