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Teledyne FLIR Defense Nabs $168.3 Million Deal To Upgrade Army’s M1135 NBCRV Strykers

Teledyne FLIR Defense Nabs $168.3 Million Deal To Upgrade Army’s M1135 NBCRV Strykers
Test participants from the Reconnaissance Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 23rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, launch a Small Unmanned Aerial System to conduct remote detection of biological warfare agents, while conducting stand-off scanning with the Sensor Suite Upgrade on an M1135 variant Stryker (Photo by Tad Browning, Audiovisual Production Specialist, Test Documentation Team, U.S. Army Operational Test Command)

The Army has awarded Teledyne FLIR Defense [TDY] a five-year, $168.3 million deal to upgrade the sensor suite on M1135 Strykers, the variant of the vehicle used for nuclear, biological and chemical detection and surveillance. Teledyne FLIR’s new low-rate initial production deal will begin with an initial $7.5 million order to upgrade 22 Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance (NBCRV) Stryker vehicles with the new sensor suite. “The advanced sensor capabilities on NBCRV will help protect our troops from weapons of mass…

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