The army gave the manufacturer of weapons Anduril the control of one of its highest and long -lasting projects often known as an integrated sight system, the founder of Palmer Luckey, announced Blog post on Tuesday.
Ivas was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop prolonged reality headphones for soldiers based on a durable version of Hololens. The initial budget for IVA was set at $ 21.9 billion.
Anduril will now take over the control of the contract. While Microsoft is removed as the important contractor, he is not thrown out of the project. According to Microsoft, he’ll still be a cloud supplier Microsoft.
Microsoft said that Anduril would have the task of supervising production, the future development of each hardware and software and delivery schedules.
The initial idea was to offer soldiers a display with functions resembling a thermal sensor, software for tactical assault (which provides various types of information about the criticism of the mission) and maps.
Andurila lattice software has already been added to Microsoft IVAS headphones, Andruil announced In September. Lattice added computer artificial vision intelligence and other functions that helped detect, track and classify objects.
But Ivas had a long history of problems.
In 2022, the Inspector General DOP issued a report in which Ivas does not do good work, serving people – which implies soldiers – who will use headphone sets. Report warned, “Purchase of IVA without obtaining the approval of the user may cause waste to $ 21.88 billion of taxpayers’ funds to issue a system from which soldiers may not want to use or use in accordance with the intended.”
Microsoft prototypes suffered from technical problems because the prototypes are inclined to detect virtual objects, the sources gave Breaking Defense in 2023.
In August, the army indicated that it was open to the download of Microsoft as the important contractor, although the technological giant swore that he would introduce every latest auction process to maintain it, Reported defense of Breaking.
Luckey’s blog post on Anduril won a poetic waxed and covered many solemn land, including Diss to a competitor. At some moments, the blog’s post became even comical.
“Tactical display, which they turn warriors into technomANTS and combine us with weapons robotics, were one of the products in the original waist Anduril Pitch for some reason,” he said.
“If Anduril had a dozen or so people, Ivas first developed over all these years ago (at least Tragic pile Guys did not win, our country really avoided a ball there), I believe that our crazy field could win it from the very beginning, “he continued.
The tragic pile is an unpleasant nickname Luckey for Magic Leap, apparently among the 80-side firms fighting for the takeover of this project. Others are Palantir and Kopin, which build displays used in F-35 helmets, reports Breaking Defense.
Luckey also teased the entire list of latest functions, but he didn’t mention them. Instead, he jokingly edited this paragraph.
“Whatever you imagine, regardless of crazy, how you imagine, multiply him for ten, and then do it again. I came back and I’m just starting, “he promised.
Whether the project, under his latest important contractor Anduril, will retain the entire $ 22 billion, will just be seen. The threat of financing or completely canceling the program has been going on for years.
On the part of Microsoft, the vice chairman of the company from the mixed reality Robin Seiler wrote in his public statement: “We are incredibly proud of the work that our teams put in to help the American army in transforming the concept of a soldier, AR headphones in reality in reality IVAS program. “
Despite this, 2025 is already shaping to be hell for Luckey and Anduril. The company talks about raising to $ 2.5 billion with a valuation of $ 28 billion. And he announced that the location of the latest megafactory building weapon will likely be in Ohio.