{"id":122545,"date":"2021-05-13T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/army-to-equip-first-unit-with-augmented-reality-headsets"},"modified":"2021-05-13T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:22:23","slug":"army-to-equip-first-unit-with-augmented-reality-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/army-to-equip-first-unit-with-augmented-reality-headsets","title":{"rendered":"Army to Equip First Unit With Augmented Reality Headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/army-to-equip-first-unit-with-augmented-reality-headsets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Army will begin equipping units with augmented reality headsets by the first quarter of fiscal year 2022, according to Congressional testimony by two of the service\u2019s top officials.<\/p>\n<p>In written testimony prepared for the House Appropriation Committee\u2019s defense subcommittee, Acting Secretary of the Army John Whitley and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville detailed the service\u2019s priorities as lawmakers wait for President Joe Biden\u2019s 2022 budget request. Whitley and McConville wrote that they need continued Congressional support for rapid prototyping, development and procurement for the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, among other emerging programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 1QFY22, we\u2019ll equip the first unit with IVAS,\u201d Whitley and McConville said in their joint written testimony prepared for a Wednesday hearing. The government\u2019s fiscal 2022 year begins in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army will begin equipping units with augmented reality headsets by the first quarter of fiscal year 2022, according to Congressional testimony by two of the service\u2019s top officials. In written testimony prepared for the House Appropriation Committee\u2019s defense subcommittee, Acting Secretary of the Army John Whitley and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}