Teledyne FLIR’s unmanned ground systems division has received a $62.1 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide robotic systems that assist in locating and discarding unexploded ordnance and improvised explosive devices. The Department of Defense said Wednesday work on the Army’s Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II program will approximately run through Oct. 2, 2023. The […] More

Teledyne FLIR‘s unmanned ground systems division will provide technical support to the U.S. Army’s robotic payloads under a $78.6 million contract. The Department of Defense said Tuesday work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract runs through May 21, 2027. Separately, Teledyne Flir announced a $14 million order from the Army to supply soldiers with updated nano unmanned […] More

A Teledyne Technologies business has introduced a payload designed to provide small unmanned aerial systems with laser-based target management capability. The StormCaster-DX laser target designator payload is built for the FLIR R80D SkyRaider UAS platform and uses a Laser Spot Tracker for target area management, enabling a capability previously available only on larger drones or […] More

A Teledyne Technologies business has introduced air domain awareness and counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities for its lightweight vehicle surveillance system designed to detect and mitigate drone threats. Teledyne FLIR Defense said Tuesday the LVSS ADA C-UAS system uses a three-dimensional radar, electro-optical/infrared camera, multi-spectral imager and radio frequency sensors to identify and display a drone’s […] More

Curtiss-Wright and Teledyne FLIR have partnered to provide unmanned and integrated technologies for the Department of Energy and the country’s nuclear power market. Lynn Bamford, president and CEO of Curtiss-Wright and a previous Wash100 awardee, said in a statement published Thursday the company’s partnership with the Teledyne Technologies subsidiary is an effort aimed at expanding […] More

Teledyne FLIR, a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary, has elevated 20-year electronics and defense executive Anne Bulik to vice president of its unmanned aerial systems business unit. Bulik most recently led the UAS unit’s Waterloo, Ontario division, and will now oversee an ongoing business expansion aimed at meeting increased customer demands for advanced drone offerings, payloads and […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded FLIR Systems a potential five-year, $20.5 million contract to produce a fabric material with built-in features that could offer warfighters protection from harmful biological and chemical agents. FLIR said Monday it initially secured $11.2 million from the agency to perform prototyping work under the Personalized Protective Biosystems effort with the goal of creating a suite of fabrics and garments for military use.

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The U.S. Army has awarded FLIR Systems a $30.1 million contract modification to help sustain unmanned ground vehicles designed to support anti-improvised explosive device operations and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection.

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FLIR Systems has booked over $23M in awards to update U.S. Customs and Border Protection's inventory of air and ground surveillance technologies needed to support the Mobile Surveillance Capability initiative and another situational awareness-focused program.

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FLIR Systems has received $32M in orders to provide the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force with robotic systems designed to assist in explosive ordnance disposal. The company said Monday it will provide over 250 Centaur UGVs under the Army's Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II program.

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FLIR Systems has received two contracts worth $23.5M combined from the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army to supply more than 160 medium robotic systems intended for military explosive ordnance disposal missions. The two branches ordered Centaur unmanned ground vehicles along with accessories and spares.

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FLIR Systems and STS International have helped the Department of Defense implement a thermal imaging camera-equipped system to screen people entering the Pentagon Visitors Center for elevated skin temperature as part of COVID-19 prevention measures.

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