{"id":24957,"date":"2021-11-16T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/16\/armys-shark-tank-style-innovation-competition-is-now-open-to-other-services\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:33:46","slug":"armys-shark-tank-style-innovation-competition-is-now-open-to-other-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2021\/11\/16\/armys-shark-tank-style-innovation-competition-is-now-open-to-other-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Army\u2019s Shark Tank-style innovation competition is now open to other services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past year, the Army\u2019s XVIII Airborne Corps has held an innovation challenge dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/10\/24\/xviii-airborne-crowdsources-innovation-in-new-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon\u2019s Lair<\/a>.\u201d Soldiers have pitched their ideas to improve everything from range time management, to moving downed vehicles, to using augmented reality in a helicopter cockpit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The XVIII Corps recently opened up the competition to other services and received a flood of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current round is now being winnowed down to finalists who will come to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, or participate via remote video, in a \u201cShark Tank\u201d style Q&amp;A session with XVIII Corps leaders and subject matter experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the 104 total submissions, 61 came from the Air Force, 11 from the Navy, three from Space Force and 29 from soldiers, said Col. 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He spoke with Army Times recently about his submission to the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former surface warfare officer first enlisted in the Navy in 2001 before attending the U.S. Naval Academy and commissioning in 2008. While serving aboard ship he noted a common problem \u2014 complete blind spots in various areas of the vessel from the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those landlubbers out there, the bridge is the main room where the ship\u2019s captain and crew command the vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker, who is also a computer programmer, started working on a project called Ocean Augmented Reality using Google Glass as the platform. That project showed how virtual reality could be used to perform remote maintenance assistance on ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea was to be able to take any maintenance-trained sailor, have them put on the glasses and then walk them through troubleshooting or repairs anywhere in the ship from another location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker thought the same tech could be used to \u201csee\u201d parts of the ship that were invisible from the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along the way, Walker and other like-minded Navy AR enthusiasts put together an ad hoc \u201cNavy Augmented Reality Consortium\u201d to incorporate AR into various Navy projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walker built a proposal he calls \u201cAugmented Bridge\u201d to solve the commander\u2019s blind spot problem. He pitched it at a previous Navy League Sea, Air, Space exposition, but it wasn\u2019t picked up for a full-fledge project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou could have anywhere from six to 15 people driving the bridge of a warship,\u201d he said. \u201cThe biggest challenge is it\u2019s difficult for one person to maintain awareness of everything going on at one time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sees his solution as providing \u201ccontinuous, tailorable access\u201d to the point person, or watch-stander, giving them access to all information that everyone else has when and how they need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Army-focused missions, it can work somewhat like a virtual sand table or a method for a commander to establish a common operating picture across a battlespace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project sat dormant for a few years until Walker saw a post on LinkedIn about the Dragon\u2019s 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