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Army May Cancel Or Postpone Over 70 Tests Due To Pandemic, Potentially Push IVAS Fielding To FY ’22

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Army May Cancel Or Postpone Over 70 Tests Due To Pandemic, Potentially Push IVAS Fielding To FY ’22
Soldiers at Fort Pickett in Virginia using the Integrated Visual Augmentation System prototype headset. Photo: U.S. Army.

Army leadership told lawmakers the ongoing coronavirus pandemic will likely impact several modernization programs, including potentially delaying fielding of its new augmented reality headset by one year, and may push the service to cancel or postpone 74 high-profile tests.  Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Gen. James McConville, the Army chief of staff, provided the update to the Senate Armed Services Committee in responses posted Thursday as part of the committee’s first “paper hearing.”  “It is too early to determine the full…

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