Indian Army To Procure Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Systems; Six Local Vendors Asked To Develop Prototype

Indian Army To Procure Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display Systems; Six Local Vendors Asked To Develop Prototype

The Indian Army is in the process of acquiring niche technology by procuring 556 Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display (ARHMD) systems under the Make-II category, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Wednesday (24 February). The projects under the industry-funded 'Make-II' category involve prototype development of equipment, system, platform or their upgrades or their subsystems/ sub-assembly/assemblies/ components, with a focus on import substitution and innovative solutions, for which no government funding is provided for prototype development purposes. "After successful evaluation of vendor responses, Project Sanction Order (PSO) has been issued on 22 February 2021 to six vendors to start developing the prototype," the ministry said. The contract will be placed with one of the firms post successful development of prototype as per provisions of Buy (Indian-IDDM) category of Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020, it added. Indian Army to get 118 unique …