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Army

Anduril Would Take Over Building Army’s IVAS Under New Arrangement With Microsoft

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

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Anduril Would Take Over Building Army’s IVAS Under New Arrangement With Microsoft

Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, wears a VR headset

Anduril Industries will take over as the prime contractor for the Army’s potential $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program pending approval of a new agreement with Microsoft [MSFT], the companies said Tuesday. Under the arrangement, Anduril would be responsible for building IVAS and leading future hardware and software development of the new mixed-reality headsets while Microsoft would shift over to managing the cloud computing and artificial intelligence-related aspects of the program. “We are signing a strategic partnership [with…

Space

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Congress

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