These soldiers to assess the Army’s new do-it-all device for infantry
By Todd South
Friday, Aug 11
IVAS 1.2 (left) features a lower-profile Heads-Up-Display (HUD) than IVAS 1.0 (right), improving comfort and performance. (Jason Amadi, Courtney Bacon/Army)
Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York will begin assessing the newest version of the Army’s do-it-all heads-up display device on Aug. 18.
For a week, the soldiers will take the Integrated Visual Augmentation System version 1.2 through a series of fit and comfort tests, weapons compatibility checks and evaluate its lowlight sensor and run mission planning tasks all in a heads-up display, said Lt. Col. Denny Dresch, the IVAS product manager for Program Executive Office Soldier.
If ongoing testing and development go as planned, the 1.2 version could begin production by 2025 for the $22 billion program.
But before then, there will be a series of assessments from the squad to platoon, and possibly even at the battalion level.
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