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Hololens is being used in the IVAS programme. (Photo: US Army)
The US Army has moved its IVAS programme from prototyping to production and fielding.
The US Army has awarded Microsoft Corporation a major contract to provide Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems (IVAS) headsets.
The deal could be worth $22 billion over ten years to provide the army with more than 120,000 AR headsets.
The US Army announced: ‘This award transitions IVAS to production and rapid fielding to deliver next-generation night vision and situational awareness capabilities to the Close Combat Force (CCF) at the speed of relevance.’
The technology is one of the 31 modernisation efforts from Army Futures Command to restore and overmatch combat superiority for US warfighters.
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Microsoft wins $22 bn US army contract for augmented reality gear
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contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion
over the next decade, the company and the US military announced Wednesday.
The headsets, based on commercially available HoloLens, will make soldiers
safer and more effective, according to Microsoft technical fellow Alex
Kipman.
years with a renewal option that could make the contract worth “in excess
of $21.88 billion” over 10 years, a Pentagon official said in a statement.
Microsoft will rapidly start producing the so-called Integrated
Augmentation System under the contract.
The award aims “to deliver next-generation night vision and situational
awareness capabilities to the Close Combat Force at the speed of relevance,”
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For a while now, the American military has been trying to figure out ways for its troops to have an extra edge over enemy forces by providing them with more detailed information of their surroundings. IVAS is how the Army calls the development program, and it just got a major boost at the end of March. 1 photo
IVAS is short for Integrated Visual Augmentation System, and it basically stands for a set of goggles soldiers can pull over their eyes and get instant access to a wealth of data provided by their unit s sensors. For instance, the technology could allow soldiers to see through the vehicle that carries them to the location of their mission, thanks to the sensors feeding data to the goggles from outside of the vehicle.