Army engineers are taking a look at robotic systems, including Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Squad Mission Support System (SMSS), to see if they can conduct counter-improvised explosive devices (IED) missions, something high on service priority lists. “This is an expansion for SMSS,” Don Nimblett, Unmanned Systems Business Development manager for Lockheed Martin, told Defense Daily in an interview. “We just got back from Afghanistan--we had four months of a pretty successful experiment over there with the Army, we’re quite pleased with…
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