- Elbit Systems of America received a $212 million delivery order for ENVG-B night vision systems from the U.S. Army, with deliveries scheduled through 2028.
- Elbit was selected as the sole prime supplier for this order, departing from the Army's historical practice of splitting ENVG-B production among multiple vendors.
Elbit Systems of America has received a $212 million delivery order from the U.S. Army for continued production of the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular system, with deliveries scheduled through 2028.
The delivery order, announced May 12, 2026, continues production under a program originally awarded in 2023.
Bezhalel Machlis, President and CEO of Elbit Systems, described the sole-source selection as a significant program milestone. “The continuation of orders under the program originally awarded in 2023 is a strong testament to the performance and trust placed in our systems,” Machlis said in the company’s announcement.
The Army’s decision to concentrate this particular delivery order with a single supplier, after historically splitting ENVG-B production among multiple vendors, signals a level of confidence in Elbit’s execution and product quality that competitive multi-vendor programs rarely produce through their own momentum.
The ENVG-B is the U.S. Army’s current-generation night vision system, combining two technologies that previous generations of night vision equipment treated as separate: image intensification and thermal imaging. Image intensification, the technology behind traditional night vision goggles, amplifies ambient light to produce a visible image in low-light conditions but performs poorly in complete darkness or through obscurants like fog, smoke, and heavy rain. Thermal imaging detects heat emitted by objects rather than reflected light, making it effective in true darkness and through most atmospheric obscurants, but producing images with different characteristics than the light-amplified view soldiers are trained on. The ENVG-B fuses both inputs into a single display, giving the soldier the benefits of both technologies simultaneously rather than forcing a choice between them based on conditions.
The binocular configuration of the ENVG-B, as opposed to the monocular designs of earlier systems like the PVS-14 that has been the Army’s standard night vision device for decades, provides depth perception that monocular systems cannot offer. Operating a monocular night vision device requires soldiers to navigate, shoot, and make tactical decisions with one eye in a night vision image and one eye unaided, a cognitive adjustment that degrades performance and requires substantial training to mitigate. Binocular systems eliminate that compromise, providing a more natural visual experience that reduces cognitive load during operations. For a soldier conducting a nighttime patrol, breaching a structure, or engaging a target, that reduction in cognitive burden translates directly into faster reaction times and more reliable performance under stress.
The augmented reality overlay capability in the ENVG-B extends the system beyond basic night vision into a networked tactical information platform. The system can display targeting data, waypoints, and other battlefield management information directly in the soldier’s field of view without requiring them to look away from the tactical situation to consult a separate device. This integration with the Army’s broader networked battle management architecture, specifically the Nett Warrior system and the broader Integrated Visual Augmentation System program, positions the ENVG-B as a component of a larger digital infantry ecosystem rather than a standalone sensor. A soldier whose goggles display the positions of friendly forces, mark identified threats, and provide navigation cues has a meaningfully different situational awareness picture than one relying on goggles that simply amplify available light.
The passive targeting capability Elbit highlights in its product description allows soldiers to acquire and engage targets using information from the ENVG-B’s sensor suite without activating laser aiming devices or other systems that generate detectable emissions. Laser aiming devices, while highly effective, produce infrared signatures visible to adversaries equipped with night vision equipment — a vulnerability that has become increasingly significant as night vision technology proliferates to non-state actors and less sophisticated militaries. Passive targeting capability that achieves similar results without the detectable signature improves survivability in environments where the enemy can see the laser even if they cannot see the soldier.