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https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... -viabilityThe US Army’s new heads-up display, dubbed the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), is under congressional scrutiny and lawmakers are poised to strip USD230 million from the effort.
House and Senate conferees recently released their proposed fiscal year (FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and both chambers are anticipated to pass the bill before sending it to the White House. Included, is a measure that pares back the authorised IVAS funding level from USD1.12 billion down to USD897 million, and requires the army to submit a report to Congress by 15 August 2021.
In the report, the service must detail its IVAS acquisition strategy, including the average per unit production cost, and its full-rate production schedule, and identify necessary hardware or software changes. Lawmakers also want to know what soldiers think about the system and a description of its “operational suitability”.
Within 30 days of this report being delivered to Capitol Hill, the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation is tasked with submitting its own IVAS assessment.
IVAS is an effort between the army and Microsoft to militarise the company’s HoloLens 2 augmented reality (AR) system to include One World Terrain and Nett Warrior.
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https://www.facebook.com/canadianarmy/p ... Do3eydAbXQFielding of the Integrated Soldier System Project is complete across the Canadian Army. Soldiers throughout Canada are now able to try out the new system that is hosted on a modular vest platform.
https://www.peosoldier.army.mil/News/Ar ... act-award/FORT BELVOIR, VA - On 26 March 2021, the United States Army awarded Microsoft Corporation a fixed price production agreement to manufacture the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS).
CAMP SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico — From minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit to over 90, the Integrated Visual Augmentation System was tested in back-to-back extreme weather test events led by Program Executive Office Soldier’s Project Manager IVAS this spring. After its time at the Cold Region Test Center in Alaska, the system was tested by 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Camp Santiago’s Joint Readiness Training Center in Puerto Rico.
The Rangers tested land navigation, rapid target acquisition and after action review capabilities in progressive exercises that culminated in a movement-to-contact event and a platoon raid. The land navigation feature stood out as a favorite capability among the group.
“Traditionally, you have five points and you’re taking the time to hand-plot them on a map,” said Hayman. “A lot of guys make mistakes plotting on a map. With IVAS, the mistakes are taken away by just inputting the 10-digit grid into the system and then the programmed route populates in front of you. You never have to stop to do a map check or anything like that because, with just the push of a button, you have an arrow that’s in the bottom of your screen and you walk the arrow to your point, so there’s no accidentally drifting left or right. You never use a compass, and even if you need one, you look up and it’s in the top of the band. That’s what helped me a lot, overall.”
With intuitive access to navigation tools preventing the need to stop and fumble with a compass to discreetly reevaluate their location in the dark, the Rangers executed the land navigation course significantly faster than the Army requirement for a traditional five point course.
“The Army standard is to find four out of five points in five hours,” said Hayman. “I believe last night almost 90 percent of the guys had five points within an hour, hour and 15 minutes max.”
The IVAS heads-up display provides map, compass and navigation tools at the click of a button, not only for individual Soldiers, but it also enables the interconnected communication necessary to plan, build, share and execute routes across team, squad and platoon level elements.
https://www.army.mil/article/253466/ran ... opics_testThe Rangers were also briefly shown the after action review feature of the IVAS suite of capabilities. It gives a detailed virtual “play back” of the executed scenario to use as a review tool during both training drills and missions.