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Navy/USMC

L3Harris Receives $249 Million To Deliver Marine Corps’ New Night Vision Devices

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, September 10th, 2019

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L3Harris Receives $249 Million To Deliver Marine Corps’ New Night Vision Devices

A Marine peers through the lens of the Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles during new equipment training in December 2018 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Joseph Neigh)

The Marine Corps has awarded L3Harris [LHX] a $249 million contract to deliver 14,000 new night vision goggle systems, with plans to start fielding the devices to infantry units next spring. L3Harris’ system for the Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggle (SBNVG) includes a binocular night vision device and updated clip-on thermal imager, and is designed to provide Marines with a lighter system with improved depth perception. “Awarding this SBNVG contract and fielding these systems to the warfighter is one more…

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