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Thales To Build Hundreds Of Prototypes For DIU’s Small Tactical Universal Batteries Effort

Thales To Build Hundreds Of Prototypes For DIU’s Small Tactical Universal Batteries Effort
U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to A Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, sync radios prior to a training exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, July 7, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Randis Monroe)

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has selected Thales’ U.S.-based Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) business to develop and prototype new Small Tactical Universal Batteries (STUB), intended to reduce troops’ logistical burden. TDSI will build hundreds of prototype batteries by 2025 for the STUB effort, the company said on Wednesday. “A standard family of batteries is needed to help reduce the service’s logistical burden and simplify the number of batteries that operational units must carry to power the network and other…

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