And here you can appreciate the USAF's desire to speed things up and get the technology into the hands of non-military users ASAP

The PilotVision system grew out of SA Photonics’ traditional military HMD business coupled with the desire to address civilian markets. The PilotVision system development was aided by a grant from AFWERX, an Air Force technology accelerator program designed to bypass traditional military bureaucracy to allow both small and large entities to develop ideas that could be of value to the Air Force. This is not for large projects – the total AFWERX budget is $11M. According to Browne, this Air Force support shortened the development cycle for PilotVision from a normal five to six years to 18 months.