Totally missed Major General Potts two recent interviews on the subject. While I'm doing my apology tour I have to apologize to you, Trader960 for what looking back your analysis of the evolution of the Project was correct.After the GAO Report on IVAS recommending "mitigation efforts" because of reported deficiencies in the Waveguide I assumed swapping it out would be simple, pro forma, knowing what a piece of junk it was in early iterations. But this is eManistan and that would be too easy. Alls well that ends well. That said IMO a new display has been dropped in for Integration and Testing at Convergence. What a relief. I thought the whole Project was going down in flames.

But a newly ruggedized system has been used by soldiers all the way up to company-level live fires as recently as last year.

But further maturation of the heads-up display portion is required. That next step will come later in fiscal year 2022, according to Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, commander of Program Executive Office-Soldier and Brig. Gen. Larry Burris, director of the Army’s Cross Functional Team-Soldier Lethality.

The two-star said that developers want to mature the heads-up display before moving forward with the project.

“It’s very interesting, we have found working with [the Army’s] Night Vision Labs that this is one of those [things] where we are really out in front of the technology curve,” Potts said.

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-army/2021/10/11/the-armys-futuristic-goggles-near-completion/