
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…