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Bush: Army Decision ‘Probably Next Year’ On Whether IVAS Next Will Be A Re-Compete

Bush: Army Decision ‘Probably Next Year’ On Whether IVAS Next Will Be A Re-Compete
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, test the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, Aug. 23, 2023, on Fort Drum, New York (U.S. Army photos by Spc. Kade M. Bowers)

The Army is likely to decide “probably next year” whether it will hold a competition for the IVAS Next follow-on effort for the new augmented reality headset, according to the service’s acquisition chief. Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told reporters last week that the series of ongoing evaluations with the current Microsoft [MSFT]-built IVAS 1.2 headset are intended “to gain knowledge about whether it is good enough to go to production” and informing…

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