
Teledyne Technologies’ [TDY] acquisition this month of FLIR did more than dramatically expand its portfolio of sensor capabilities, it expanded the company’s suite of unmanned systems that now range from unmanned and remotely operated undersea and surface vessels to unmanned ground and aerial systems for solutions across multiple domains. FLIR’s strengths in unmanned systems are in the ground and airborne solutions while Teledyne complements these with “extremely strong” capabilities in unmanned underwater and unmanned maritime surface vessels, said Roger Wells,…