QinetiQ North America announced it received a $56.4 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for purchase and delivery of TALON GEN IV robots and associated equipment for the Navy.
The June 25 contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Md., is for the Naval EOD Technical Division (NAVEODTECHDIV), the single-service manager for all explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) equipment.
The contract work is for robots, repair parts, spare kits, and other related equipment and services.
The work will be performed by the Technology Solutions Group and will be completed in early 2010.
“Once again, we thank the U.S. Navy for its continued support of our robotics programs,” said William Ribich, president of QinetiQ North America’s Technology Solutions Group. “Robots help protect our warfighters, a fact that is demonstrated every day when a robot accomplishes a dangerous assignment while the warfighter controls it from a safe distance.”
Since TALON’s initial deployment in 2000, the QinetiQ North America family of robots has expanded to include smaller Dragon Runner(tm) small unmanned ground vehicle and larger unmanned vehicles MAARSr that can be configured for specific tasks, such as IED defeat, route clearance, chemical, biological radiological nuclear and high yield explosive (CBRNE/hazardous material identification, reconnaissance, armed reconnaissance, checkpoint security, combat engineering support and SWAT/MP unit assistance.
More than 2,800 TALON robots are deployed around the world.