WOLF Advanced Technology USA Inc. in Cleveland was one of the companies NASA contracted to help build the External Vision System (XVS). The project required a new video-processing technology that the company has now added to its product line, called FGX2. This hardware is included in many WOLF products, said Greg Maynard, chief technology officer. The company already supplied aerospace video capture and display flight hardware, but there was no flight-certified system that had the high definition necessary to supplant an actual windshield. So NASA developed a hybrid system that leveraged WOLF’s expertise. The XVS includes an ultra-high-definition (UHD) camera incorporating commercial, off-the-shelf hardware on top of the X-plane and a standard, flight-certified camera system on the underside. The top camera provides visual quality approaching human sight, with the standard camera underneath acting as a failsafe. But the company needed a new technology to process both data streams simultaneously.