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Army Will ‘Move On’ From Microsoft If IVAS 1.2 Is Unsuccessful, Wormuth Says

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

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Army Will ‘Move On’ From Microsoft If IVAS 1.2 Is Unsuccessful, Wormuth Says

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 Army will “move on” from Microsoft [MSFT] if the company’s work developing the new “1.2” upgraded version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset is unsuccessful, the service’s secretary said Tuesday. “We want to see if we can get it to a place where it is going to be desirable for our soldiers. We think it can be. But I think Microsoft knows that this is it. They either get it done and get it to a place…

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