Teledyne FLIR Received $500 Million U.S. Army Contract for Family of Weapons Sights-Individual Program

Specifications:

Name:

Teledyne FLIR Received $500 Million U.S. Army Contract for Family of Weapons Sights-Individual Program

Location:

USA

Company:

Teledyne FLIR

Estimated Cost:

$500 Million

Source:

https://www.flir.in/

Introduction:

Teledyne FLIR Defense announced that it has won a five-year, firm-fixed-price, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract worth up to $500.2 million to provide advanced thermal imaging systems for the U.S. Army’s Family of Weapons Sights-Individual (FWS-I) program.

Features:

The Family of Weapon Sights-Individual system can be mounted on individual weapons and provides a soldier with infrared imagery in all-weather environments, under all lighting conditions, and through obscurants such as smoke or fog.

The FWS-I program falls under the auspices of the Army’s Program Executive Office Soldier.  The award was made through U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.  

FWS-I is a lightweight, battery-operated thermal imaging system for reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition mounted on individual weapons.  In addition, FWS-I wirelessly transmits the weapon sight crosshair and thermal imagery to soldiers’ Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (ENVG) III and ENVG-Binocular, providing a Rapid Target Acquisition (RTA) capability.  RTA enables soldiers to detect, recognize and engage targets accurately from any carry position and with greatly reduced exposure to enemy fire.

Teledyne FLIR will produce the FWS-I at its facilities in Billerica, Massachusetts and Goleta, California.  Maztech Industries, based in Irvine, California, will serve as subcontractor and system design lead.