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FLIR Receives $70 Million In Orders To Deliver Nearly 600 More Centaur Ground Robots

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, May 10th, 2021

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FLIR Receives $70 Million In Orders To Deliver Nearly 600 More Centaur Ground Robots

FLIR's Centaur unmanned ground vehicle. Photo: FLIR.

FLIR Systems [FLIR] has received more than $70 million in new orders to deliver nearly 600 additional Centaur unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the company announced Monday. Orders for the Centaur medium-sized ground robots were placed under the Army’s multi-year Man Transportable Robotic System (MTRS) Increment II contract vehicle, which has now had its ceiling value raised from $158 million to $190 million. Deliveries under the latest round of orders for Centaur…

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