PANDEMIC-READY
COMPONENTS OF A WHOLE
Hardware components of the third capability set prototype of IVAS include the heads-up display, conformal wearable battery and puck, as well as the Family of Weapon Sight – Individual. (Photo by Courtney Bacon, PEO Soldier)
of defense’s approval in late May, ‘Team IVAS’ awarded multiple other-transac- tion agreements to industry and kicked off IVAS before Christmas 2018.”
From the program’s inception, the IVAS rapid-prototype effort required fast-paced and well-organized work from partners around the country. Terefore, the distrib- uted team had built and relied on a digital infrastructure to manage the mission from any physical location. Tis postured them for success, as they were able to mitigate impacts to the mission and maintain operations, even with social-distancing protocols, while many other projects were more heavily impacted. Before the pandemic, the iterative testing took place in the form of in-person user studies and juries. However, the developmental sprints soon transitioned to taking place remotely, and the team employed the expertise of IVAS test and technology personnel as well as their experienced equipment trainers to
90 HEADS UP The Capability Set 3 militarized IVAS prototype. (Photo by Courtney Bacon, PEO Soldier)
push collective feedback to industry part- ners at Microsoft.
Te new strategy allowed the team to continue exchanging sprint software updates between military and industry partners, test the updates in a safe, distrib- uted environment and provide feedback to manage performance risks without having to wait until large test events to discover issues.
TEST PRIORITIES “As COVID-19 impacted the organiza- tion, the test directorate determined that we could still conduct thorough Army- enabled testing with focus on developing the rapid target acquisition, tactical-assault kit, synthetic training environment and other necessary capabilities while main- taining requisite social distance and implementing COVID-approved decon- tamination procedures,” Walega, PM IVAS test director.
said Jared
“Our dispersed team is extremely capa- ble and is able to download the latest software build and load it onto their heads-up displays to continue to iterate. Tis process has enabled remote testing of software builds and the ability to provide rapid feedback to Microsoft, [including] live-fire video, data and assessments,” Walega added.
Targeting specific capabilities of IVAS for remote development was possible because of the modular architecture and scalable build approach of the composite IVAS system.
“As the hardware matures, we are able to update different aspects of the current form factor based on the modular ‘plug and play’ infrastructure. What that really means is that, as sensor or camera capa- bilities improve, we are able to pull the obsolete legacy version and replace it with new tech without having to recreate
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