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Army

DoD IG Auditing IVAS Program, Army Officials Note Resolution Issue Being Worked Out

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, October 18th, 2021

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DoD IG Auditing IVAS Program, Army Officials Note Resolution Issue Being Worked Out

The Army conducted its third soldier touchpoint for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System at Ft. Pickett in Virginia. Photo: U.S. Army.

The Pentagon’s inspector general is conducting an audit of the Army’s potential $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset program. “The objective of this audit is to determine whether Army officials are producing and fielding Integrated Visual Augmentation System units that meet capability requirements and user needs. We may revise the objective as the audit proceeds, and we will also consider suggestions from management for additional or revised objectives,” the DoD IG’s office wrote in an Oct. 4 memo.…

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