Congress says the Army can’t spend $400 million buying Microsoft HoloLens headsets

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Congress says the Army can’t spend $400 million buying Microsoft HoloLens headsets
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But the company is getting millions to make improvements.

. The purpose of the IVAS is to provide soldiers with real-time information from sensors and navigation systems, as well as night and thermal vision and augmented-reality training.

So far, the Army has ordered around 5,000 headsets, but its contract could let it order up to 120,000 over a decade. It’s not necessarily a surprise that Congress is putting the brakes on new orders for now, though; in 2022, a Senate committee reportedly slashed the Army’s procurement request for more headsets in 2023 in a preview of what would happen with the budget.

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