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Army Senior Leaders ‘Didn’t Fully Agree’ With DoD IG’s Findings On IVAS, Wormuth Says

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, May 5th, 2022

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Army Senior Leaders ‘Didn’t Fully Agree’ With DoD IG’s Findings On IVAS, Wormuth Says

The Army conducted its third soldier touchpoint for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System at Ft. Pickett in Virginia. Photo: U.S. Army.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told lawmakers Thursday that senior service leaders disagreed with the Pentagon Inspector General’s recent report stating soldiers may not want to use the new Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), reiterating she is “ pretty comfortable” with the program's status. “We didn’t fully agree with some of the [DoD IG] findings,” Wormuth told the Senate Armed Services Committee. “We didn’t particularly agree with the characterization that soldiers were not going to use IVAS ultimately. I mean, again,…

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