These contract awards are in addition to a previously announced $200,000 award for Apache maintenance at Fort Campbell.
The order is for the Xybernaut Atigo T/HB, "high bright" mobile/wearable computers. These technologies are specifically tailored to support the portion of any organization's workforce who spends the majority of its working time in high ambient light conditions (typically outdoors during daylight hours).
"Xybernaut continues to develop wearable and mobile solutions for our government customers by bringing together the hardware, software applications, and wireless infrastructure to provide a total maintenance solution," stated Steven A. Newman, president and COO of Xybernaut.
"Our primary goal related to these deployments is to provide an integrated solution that will increase the effectiveness and productivity of today's armed forces maintenance personnel," Newman added.
The solution services and integration portion of the contracts are directly related to effective deployment of the Army's automated logbook application, hosted on the Atigo computers, for use in the maintenance of Apache attack helicopters. This technology will reduce "off aircraft" maintenance time and increase real time maintenance awareness.
Currently, all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces (Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, Navy and Coast Guard) utilize Xybernaut mobile/wearable computing equipment for a variety of technical functions throughout their theaters of operation.
With two decades of experience working with a wide variety of customer organizations, Xybernaut has become quite adept at reacting quickly to changing needs.
The High Bright version of the Atigo is a good example as it was developed and brought to market to meet specific needs of both commercial and government/military customers.
One of the first mobile computing products to be truly readable in full daylight, the Atigo T/HB is uniquely positioned in the market.
Whether it is the Atigo or the Xybernaut Mobile Assistant V (MA V), mobile/wearable computers form the foundation of many mobile information delivery solutions for both active-duty and reserve inspection, maintenance and repair units.