Anduril controls Microsoft $ 22B military headphone program

The army plans to grant Anduril Control to manufacture weapons in one of the prominent and long projects known as the approval of the Ministry of Defense (DOD) known as the integrated visual enhance system (IVAS). Tuesday blog post.

IVAS was initially granted to Microsoft in 2018 to develop soldiers reinforced headphones based on a rough version of Hololes. IVAS’s initial budget was set at $ 21.9 billion.

Anduril will now bear control of the contract. While Microsoft is removed as a Prime contractor, he is not expelled from the project. The company will remain the cloud provider, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft said that Andoriel will get overseeing the future production and development of both devices and programs, and delivery tables.

The initial idea was to give the forces a monitoring screen with features such as a thermal sensor, the tactical attack tools program (which provides different types of important information), and maps.

Anduril poetry program has already been added to IVAS headphones from Microsoft, The company announced In September. Lattice added the AI ​​computer vision and other features that helped the headphone to discover, track and classify objects.

But Evas had a long history of problems.

In 2022, the Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense issued a report saying that Eva was not doing a good job enough to serve people – this means soldiers – who will use headphones. Report to caution , “The purchase of IVAS without achieving the user’s acceptance may waste up to 21.88 billion dollars of taxpayer money to create a system that soldiers may not want to use or use as is intended.”

Initial models for Microsoft have suffered from technical problems, and preliminary models, such as discovering virtual things, said the sources. The defense was broken in 2023.

In August, the army indicated that it was open to withdraw Microsoft as a major contractor despite the technology giant’s pledge that it would enter any new offer to try to keep it, I mentioned the defense break.

Luckily blog on The Anduril Wax Waxed Poiteic and covered a lot of festive land, including Diss for a competitor. The blog publication has frankly received in some points.

He wrote: “The tactical heads that converted the war men into techniques and our pair with robots were one of the products on the original Andorel stadium platform for some reason.”

“If Andoriel was more than ten people when Evas was first tied throughout those years (at least Tragic The men did not win, and our country escaped from a bullet there), and I think the crazy stadium has won this from the beginning. “

Tragic Hep is the unfamiliar Luckey title for Magic Leap, according to what was reported among the eighties that compete to take over this project. Others included Balnter, and Kopin, which builds offers used in F-35 helmets, said Breaking Defeense.

Luckey’s harassment is also that there is a full list of new features that have been planned for the project but did not call it. Instead, this paragraph was joking.

“Whatever you imagine, whatever you imagine that I, hit it with ten, then do it again. I came back, and I only started.”

Whether the project, according to its new contractor, which will be soon, will retain a full budget worth $ 22 billion. The threats of reducing financing, or completely canceling the program were continuing for years.

For the Microsoft part, Vice President of Mixed Reality Robin Siller wrote in his general statement, “We are incredibly proud of the work that our teams put to help the US military to transform its concept of headphones that the soldier moves into reality IVAS program.”

However, 2025 is already formed to be a year hell for Luckey and Anduril. Company In talks to raise up to $ 2.5 billion A tour of 28 billion dollars. And announced The new weapons building site Megafactory will be in Ohio.

Note: This story has been updated to include a Microsoft statement and clarify that the official transfer is still awaiting the approval of DOD, although the two companies announced the change in the contract.