On Wednesday, March 31 2021, Microsoft bagged a deal of selling the “augmented reality headsets” to the U.S. Army which will base on its “HoloLens product” while receiving the backing the “Azure cloud computing services”.
According to Reuters report, as informed by a spokesperson:
“The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years”.
It has been two years since, Microsoft has been involved with the Army working on the “prototyping phase” of the “Integrated Visual Augmentation System”, in short IVAS. Moreover, the company also revealed that the Army was carrying out the “production phase of the project”. While, in a blog post, Alex Kipman, Microsoft Technical Fellow informed that the designs of the headsets are such that it would deliver “enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios.”
Furthermore, Reuters also added:
“Microsoft was also in line to win the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, but the contract remains in dispute in a lawsuit filed by Amazon.com Inc. Pentagon officials told U.S. lawmakers in February that the Defense Department may jettison the contract if the dispute lingers in the courts”.
References:
reuters.com
According to Reuters report, as informed by a spokesperson:
“The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years”.
It has been two years since, Microsoft has been involved with the Army working on the “prototyping phase” of the “Integrated Visual Augmentation System”, in short IVAS. Moreover, the company also revealed that the Army was carrying out the “production phase of the project”. While, in a blog post, Alex Kipman, Microsoft Technical Fellow informed that the designs of the headsets are such that it would deliver “enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios.”
Furthermore, Reuters also added:
“Microsoft was also in line to win the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, but the contract remains in dispute in a lawsuit filed by Amazon.com Inc. Pentagon officials told U.S. lawmakers in February that the Defense Department may jettison the contract if the dispute lingers in the courts”.
References:
reuters.com
