Bush: No plan to spend $22 billion on current IVAS model

By Ethan Sterenfeld / February 17, 2022 at 2:43 PM
The Army probably will not spend the maximum $21.9 billion value of its contract for virtual reality headsets unless Microsoft upgrades the system, according to the service's acquisition executive. “There is no plan to buy $22 billion of this version that’s being tested right now,” Douglas Bush, whom the Senate confirmed last week , told reporters at the Pentagon today. “I don’t think we’re going to spend that much.” Microsoft won a $21.9 billion production contract last year for the...

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