Very good prospecting Frank. I don't think the Night Vision Directorate wants any spinning mirrors in their equipment. Just a hunch. Last sentence the capper.

It was announced in November that Microsoft was awarded $480 million to be the prime contractor for the IVAS program. We, however, are in contract with SOSSEC on behalf of NVESD, or the Night Vision Electronic Sensor Directorate, who will be supplying the cameras to Microsoft or their sub directly.

It's the Army's objective to incorporate head, body and weapon technology on individual soldiers in a single platform that they can use to fight, rehearse and train, providing increased lethality, mobility and situational - and the situational awareness necessary to achieve overmatch against our current and future adversaries. Digital night vision is a key part of this platform, and this win is the single largest contract award Intevac Photonics has ever received.

Our 2,300 camera modules will leverage the successful development work of our state-of-the-art, low-light level CMOS cameras accomplished over the past year, along with our next-generation ISIE 19 sensor currently under development.

If successful, the project volumes of digital night vision camera modules for the IVAS program will be in the hundreds of thousands of unit range. So it's beginning, digital night vision for the ground soldier.