What’s better on the battlefield of the future than swarming UAVs or waves of rockets? The Army thinks one answer might be a battlefield laser, and Huntsville company Dynetics has won a $10 million contract to help develop one. It’s a 100-kilowatt high…
Month: August 2018
Mars 2020 Rover Goes Nuclear with Delivery of New Electrical Generator
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has received its nuclear power plant developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne and Teledyne. The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) unit will provide the robotic spacecraft with 125 W of electricity to operate the drive motors and power the onboard systems,…
Pentagon Hires Alabama Company to Make More Inflatable Antennas
The Pentagon has given an Alabama company a $522 million contract for inflatable field antennas. The new contract is an extension of an earlier contract making a total value of more than $960 million. GATR Technologies Inc. of Huntsville first won…
Teledyne Brown Engineering Awarded Next Generation UUV Contract Vehicle
August 14, 2018- Huntsville, AL – Teledyne Brown Engineering was announced as one of 23 companies awarded the Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FOS) IDIQ contract to further developments and technologies for undersea vehicles. Work under the UUV FOS…