Army chief emphasizes patience and persistence on IVAS, despite program delays

By Dan Schere / March 21, 2023 at 1:48 PM
Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said Tuesday that despite the multiyear delays with the service's Integrated Visual Augmentation System, he remains confident in the ability of the 1.2 variant to be transformative on the battlefield. IVAS has been beset by problems discovered during testing and a resulting lack of congressional funding since Microsoft won the original contract in 2021. The Director of Operational Test and Evaluation's fiscal year 2022 report noted that an operational demonstration of the 1.0...

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