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Teal Drone Secures Additional $1.2 Million in Funding for U.S. Army’s SSR Program
DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby
military technology companies Red Cat Holdings announced by the subsidiary. teal drone received an additional $1.2 million for the development of a new sUAS prototype for the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program.
In March 2022, Thiel won its first SRR Tranche 2 program prototype contract, and the Army is now owed a total of $2.7 million for Thiel’s participation. The company is one of only three of his vendors to participate in Tranche 2, the final tranche of the SRR program.
After a series of testing and demonstration milestones, the winning vendor was selected to deliver a rucksack-portable drone capable of providing rapidly deployable surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for platoons of 20-50 soldiers. will be developed. The new funding added additional objective requirements for the prototype to meet, originally assigned to Tranche 3.
“Future SRR production contracts represent a huge opportunity for the companies of choice, and Teal is committed to providing the very best for combatants,” said George Matus, founder and CEO of Teal. I’m excited,” he said. “We are confident that the SRR prototype we are developing will meet and exceed the Army’s requirements.”
“Unmanned systems are disruptive technologies that give soldiers an unfair advantage on the battlefield,” said Maj. Josh McMillion, U.S. Army SRR APM. “SRR is the Army’s solution to providing this capability, ensuring that our Soldiers are able to gain a technical advantage over their adversaries in any operational environment and never fight a fair fight. .”
The teal prototype will utilize some of the same technology as the military grade Teal 2 sUAS. Officially launched in April of this year, the Teal 2 is designed to:Dominate the Night™As the world’s leading unmanned aerial vehicle for night operations (SUAS), Teal 2 delivers the latest intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technology to relay emergency information and help operators make faster and smarter decisions. make it possible.
Teal’s technology partners for SRR efforts include: Teledyne FLIR, Doodle Lab and Immervision.
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