Army awards Microvision $1.1 million more

Aug. 21, 2002 — Microvision Inc., said it has been awarded a $1.1 million addition to an existing $3.3 million development contract from the U.S. Army’s Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC), Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC).

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The contract, originally announced on December 20, 2002, is to continue the next phase of development for a mobile wireless personal display system for medical applications, the company said in a news release.

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The contract supports a mobile medical system that will enable military surgical personnel and medics to access, read, and transmit critical medical data via a head-worn display, wearable computer, and wireless network. Microvision, based in Bothell, Wash., will design, integrate and test a head-worn mobile display based on its MEMS-based retinal scanning display technology to meet the Army’s medical system specification.

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