Next steps include using the IVAS with the Stryker, starting in August.
Developers expect the device in troops' hands after further testing.
Field-of-view and moisture problems have delayed fielding.
Moisture and slight distortion found in recent evaluations called for more work.
Some development has been pushed but fielding could start next year.
The Army wants 40,000 pairs over the next five years.
The device does targeting, navigation, mission planning, facial recognition and text translation.
A company-sized evaluation is happening in October at Fort Pickett, Virginia.
Five seconds was all it took for the goggles to detect the forehead and inner eye temperature of troops.
“The Army has frameworks for operating in biological hazards. It just requires us to make adjustments.”
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