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ITT’s Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG) is the industry’s first system that combines both image intensification (I2) and thermal long wave IR sensing in a single overlay image. The ENVG provides soldiers, marines and airmen on the ground unprecedented situational awareness when exposed to obscurants from total darkness like being in a cave or in limited visibility from fog, white out dust storms or battle field smoke. This is the first time that a goggle has ever been able to show orange (heat) features over green (light) background in a single image presented to the eye.
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The evolution of night vision equipment for aviators began with the U.S. Army in early 1982, when the Army modified its AN/PVS-5 infantry goggle to enable use by helicopter pilots. However, the infantry goggle proved to be ineffective for aviation. It later was replaced by the successful AN/AVS-6 Aviator's Night Vision Imaging System (ANVIS), which has been in production since 1985. The most widely fielded aviation night vision goggle (NVG), ITT's ANVIS saw extensive use by helicopter pilots during Operation Just Cause (1989) and Desert Storm (1991). Soon thereafter, ITT designed and introduced NVGs specifically for military pilots of fixed-wing aircraft, the move which first established ITT as the leader in aviation night vision.
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The story of the Pinnacle began in 1997. The Army Night Vision Program office awarded two cost-share contracts to ITT and to Litton Electro-Optical Systems, now part of Northrop Grumman, to develop the next generation of image intensification devices.
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