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Army Prepared To Hold New Competition If IVAS 1.2 Testing Isn’t Successful, Bush Says By Matthew Beinart 11 hrs ago 04/18/2023 The Army is prepared to hold a new competition for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) if testing of Microsoft’s new v1.2 of the headset later this yr is unsuccessful, the service’s top acquisition official said Tues. https://www.defensedaily.com/army-prepared-to-hold-new-competition-if-ivas-1-2-testing-isnt-successful-bush-says/army/ Army chief emphasizes patience and persistence on IVAS, despite program delays By Dan Schere / Mar 21, 2023 at 1:48 PM Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said Tues that despite the multiyr delays with the service's IVAS, he remains confident in the ability of the v1.2 to be transformative on the battlefield. IVAS has been beset by problems discovered during testing & 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... https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/army-chief-emphasizes-patience-and-persistence-ivas-despite-program-delays Microsoft Job Cuts Hit HoloLens Unit After Setback on Army Goggles By Dina Bass Jan 18, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC Updated on Jan 18, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC Microsoft Corp., which is eliminating 10k jobs & trimming some of its hardware lineup, will reduce its HoloLens goggles business as it scales back work on a headset for the US Army that Congress declined to fund this yr, according to people familiar with the matter. The software maker will take a $1.2 bn charge in the second fiscal qtr related to the overall job cuts & “changes to our hardware portfolio,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wed. in a memo. Some of those changes relate to the HoloLens goggle & the IVAS https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/microsoft-scales-back-hololens-business-after-setback-on-us-army-goggles?leadSource=uverify%20wall https://www.roadtovr.com/microsoft-hololens-ivas-army-ar/ Microsoft’s Battlefield AR Headset in Jeopardy After Deep Budget Cuts By Scott Hayden - Jul 29, 2022 Microsoft’s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn’t going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg, the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army’s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-28/microsoft-army-goggle-concerns-remain-senate-funding-panel-says Microsoft announced last yr it had won a US Army defense contact worth up to $22 bn to develop an IVAS, a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2 technology. Now the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee announced it’s cut $350 million from the Army’s procurement plans for IVAS, leaving around $50 million for the device. The subcommittee cites concerns based around the program’s overall effectiveness.