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Army Gets $360 Million IVAS Procurement Cut, $300 Million ENVG-B Increase In Final FY ‘23 Budget

Army Gets $360 Million IVAS Procurement Cut, $300 Million ENVG-B Increase In Final FY ‘23 Budget
U..S. Army soldiers assigned to 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, experiment with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) on Oct. 14 as part of Project Convergence 22 (U.S. Army Photo)

The final fiscal year 2023 defense spending bill includes a $360 million cut to the Army’s planned buy of its new Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets, while restoring $300 million for procurement of Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) devices. Appropriators also moved $40 million from the Army’s night vision devices procurement request to the service’s research and development account for continued work on the “1.2” version of the IVAS headset. The Army in October detailed its updated plan for…

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