Army picks Teledyne FLIR for chemical and nuclear threat detector and sensor data processing for Stryker
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – U.S. Army armored combat vehicles experts needed chemical and nuclear threat detector and protection systems for the Stryker combat vehicle. They found a solution from Teledyne FLIR Detection Inc. in Stillwater, Okla.
Officials of the Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., announced a $168.3 million contract to Teledyne FLIR Detection in September for low-rate initial production to upgrade the M1135 Stryker's nuclear, biological, and chemical reconnaissance vehicle threat detector and sensor processing suite.
Teledyne FLIR will integrate sensors onto the M1135 flat-bottom hull Stryker nuclear biological chemical reconnaissance vehicle, as well as design and build a modular mission payload and a sensor data processing unit for the Stryker.
The Army Contracting Command awarded the contract on behalf of the Army Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
The modular mission payload consists of a standoff chemical vapor detector; improved mobile chemical agent detector; standoff radiological and nuclear detector; standoff aerosol cloud detector; point radiological and nuclear detector; point chemical vapor detector; two SkyRaider R80D unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); UAV biological detector and collector payload; UAV radiological detector payload; and M-code assured-positioning, navigation, and timing (A-PNT). The contract has options for Teledyne FLIR to provide a solid and liquid chemical surface detector.
Teledyne FLIR will deliver six nuclear biological chemical reconnaissance vehicle sensor suite upgrade systems integrated onto six government-furnished flat-bottom hull Stryker vehicles.
On this contract, Teledyne FLIR will do the work at locations to be determined with each order, and should be finished by September 2029. For more information contact Teledyne FLIR online at www.flir.com; the Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground at https://acc.army.mil/contractingcenters/acc-apg/; or the Army Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) at www.jpeocbrnd.osd.mil.
