AUSA Winter: US budget pressure continues
There has been a 21% decline in the US defence budget since 2010 and it ‘will continue to decline’, Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the …
FLIR Systems used the AUSA exhibition to publicly unveil its Mobile Surveillance Capability (MSC) vehicle-based long range detection system.
Developed in conjunction with US Customs and Border Protection, the MSC incorporates the TacFLIR 380-HD sensor, Elta Ground master radar and FLIR’s CommandSpace Adaptive C2 software.
FLIR was recently awarded a $26 million production contract for an undisclosed number of MSC units, under a $100 million contracting mechanism signed in 2010, with deliveries due to begin in March.
A FLIR spokesman said the company was in discussions with Kenya and Qatar for possible export of the system.
He noted that the
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