The US Government Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Defense required the development of an extremely advanced, innovative, user-centered, hand-held translation device. This Translator captures voice via high quality audio input fed to its speech recognition software developed by Stanford Research Institute. The unit's Strong Arm processor matches the speech input to thousands of pre-recorded foreign phrases. The Phrase is outputted real-time via speaker to provide information, give orders, directions, or ask questions.

Through the DevelopmentDNA™ process and in-depth Systems Analysis™, innovative design, engineering, ergonomics and manufacturing solutions emanated. Applying this multi-disciplined approach resulted in a Next Step product, possessing user-centered design by addressing unique (highly abusive) military environmental use. The Translator's first production units were deployed in Afghanistan as well as Iraq, and have proven to be very effective. The efforts deployed on this program have provided dramatic advances in America's counter terrorism efforts.