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Gecko Robotics Announces Air Force Contract to Aid in Conversion to Sentinel

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Gecko Robotics Announces Air Force Contract to Aid in Conversion to Sentinel
Members of the Missile Mishap Response Team upright an overturned Minuteman III weapon system component container during a training event at Hill AFB, Utah on Oct. 4. The highly-specialized team responds to situations involving an ICBM (except the warhead) where technical procedures do not exist, or the loss of life is possible, the Air Force said. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Pittsburgh's Gecko Robotics said on Nov. 29 that the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center has awarded the company an 18-month, $1.5 million Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to aid the Air Force in the planned conversion of 450 Minuteman III silos to accommodate the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel next generation ICBM. "Under the new contract, Gecko Robotics will integrate state-of-the-art concrete evaluation technology into their fleet of crawling robots," the company said. "The hardware and…

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