National Guard to deploy tactical lighting systems for its disaster-response teams

This most recent National Guard order with a value of $313,004 follows the initial order in April for $37,072.

A CERFP team is composed of four mission elements—search and extraction, decontamination, medical, and command and control—and staffed by personnel from already established National Guard units. The 17 CERFP teams are aligned with the 10 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regions. When an incident occurs within a team's response area, they are alerted through their state’s National Guard headquarters and mobilized.

The BrightEye portable illumination system provides the CERFP teams with visible, super-bright white lighting and night-vision-compatible covert lighting for general mission tactical operations, force protection, maintenance lighting, expeditionary base protection, disaster first responders, border patrol support, global military deployments and other rapidly deployable, high-intensity lighting applications. It can illuminate target areas up to 1,000 ft. with over 10 hours of run time on standard lithium-ion batteries.

Consisting of two quadpods, two lights heads, four batteries and charger in a transportable wheeled case weighing under 89 lbs., BrightEye eliminates the bulk, noise and energy consumption of generator-powered, incandescent lighting systems. Its solid-state semiconductors consume 75 percent less energy than incandescent lighting elements and last over 20 years compared with 750 hours for conventional bulbs.

The wireless BrightEye system is available through the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule 56 for Specialty Lighting products under Cyberlux GSA Contract GS-07F-9409S and orderable part number 2CP0170.

Cyberlux is a provider of energy-efficient, light-emitted diode (LED) lighting solutions for both public and private applications.