Marine Corps orders buried IED detection units from WM Robots in potential $48.6 million contract
Dec. 9, 2010
QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va., 9 Dec. 2010. Explosives-detection experts at WM Robots LLC in Colmar, Pa., will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with as many as 1,300 handheld low-metallic-signature mine detectors for use in the Afghanistan war under terms of a maximum $48.6 million contract announced Wednesday. The contract is for handheld low- and non-metallic buried improvised explosive device (IED) detectors.Â
QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va., 9 Dec. 2010.Explosives-detection experts at WM Robots LLC in Colmar, Pa., will provide the U.S. Marine Corps with as many as 1,300 handheld low-metallic-signature mine detectors for use in the Afghanistan war under terms of a maximum $48.6 million contract announced Wednesday. The contract is for handheld low- and non-metallic buried improvised explosive device (IED) detectors.
The contract includes detectors parts blocks, training, and manuals. The company should be finished with the job by December 2013. Awarding the contract were officials of the Marine Corps Systems Command at Quantico Marine Base, Va.
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
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