Foster-Miller Receives Two Contracts for 45 more TALON Robots for Iraq
22 March 2004 16:08
WALTHAM, MA – Foster-Miller, Inc. announced today that it has received two contracts worth more than $6 million from TSWG (the Technical Support Working Group) and the Joint Program Office for Robotics for a total of 45 more TALON™ robots plus spare parts, to be used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) in Iraq.
The orders are part of a Pentagon push to get 150 more robots into Iraq as quickly as possible to handle improvised explosive devices (IEDs) more effectively. In addition to the current order, Foster-Miller has had 20 TALON™ robots working in Iraq for the past several months. They have already been used to disable more than 5,000 IEDs. Foster-Miller also has six TALON™ robots doing ongoing EOD work in Afghanistan.
“Foster-Miller is proud of the fact that TALON™ robots save lives in Iraq every day,” said Dr. William Ribich, president of Foster-Miller. “We’ve spent more than a decade developing a robot that can be easily reconfigured for many different types of missions and each system represents another opportunity to keep a soldier out of harm’s way.”
Foster-Miller, Inc., is an independent, privately held engineering, development and manufacturing company located in suburban Boston, MA, with additional offices in Albany, NY and Washington, DC. The firm was founded almost 50 years ago by three graduates of MIT who believed there was a need for a company that could solve clients’ difficult technical problems through first-class analysis and design.
The company maintains a staff of more than 350 mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, nuclear, aerospace, software and materials engineers as well as metallurgists, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, biologists and support staff working in the areas of robotics, advanced materials, custom machinery, power systems, biotechnology, transportation and aerospace.
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