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Army Planning Next IVAS Demo For July To Inform Low-Rate Production Decision, Final Touchpoint In Spring 2021

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

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Army Planning Next IVAS Demo For July To Inform Low-Rate Production Decision, Final Touchpoint In Spring 2021

Soldiers at Fort Pickett in Virginia using the Integrated Visual Augmentation System prototype headset. Photo: U.S. Army.

The Army is planning its third soldier feedback event for the service’s future augmented reality headset, being developed by Microsoft [MSFT], in July to inform a low-rate production decision, before holding a final evaluation in spring 2021 ahead of full-rate production, a lead official for the program said Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Anthony Potts, head of Program Executive Office-Soldier, told attendees at an Association of the United States Army event the Integrated Visual Augmentation System’s (IVAS) highly iterative soldier touchpoints has…

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