The military has been pursuing AR technology for a long time, and will continue to do so in the future. There's plenty of application for AR, provided it can b

The military has been pursuing AR technology for a long time, and will continue to do so in the future. There's plenty of application for AR, provided it can be made to work well for practical command or battlefield applications: R&D is ultimately expensive, and a contract from the military would've been for the supply and testing of it in this application. (i.e. to properly test such a thing, you've still got to pay someone to build the sort of software and interfaces you think you might need before you can even put a soldier in the field to trial it).