U.S. Army to award UGV Robotic Mule Contract in 2020

Submitted by tatwood on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 17:20

With a scheduled deployment in fiscal 2021, one of the following four defense contractors will provide the systems: General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), Textron subsidiary Howe & Howe, a team of Applied Research Associates and Polaris Defense, and HDT Expeditionary Systems.  Composite photo courtesy of U.S. Army; tweel image by Lucien Miller from our exclusive Xponential 2018 NREF photo gallery.  

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