{"id":1596,"date":"2024-08-29T19:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2024-08-29T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T19:35:58","slug":"leonardo-drs-awarded-117m-production-order-for-family-of-weapon-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo DRS Awarded $117M Production Order for Family of Weapon Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-239929\">\n<h2>Leonardo DRS Awarded $117M Production Order for Family of Weapon Sights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Leonardo DRS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRS) announced today that it has received an order for continued production of its next-generation thermal weapon sights for the U.S. Army. The production order for $117 million was made under the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leonardodrs.com\/what-we-do\/products-and-services\/family-of-weapon-sights-fws\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Family of Weapon Sights \u2013 Individual (FWS-I)<\/a> IDIQ contract.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging DRS\u2019s uncooled thermal imaging technology, FWS-I is a stand-alone, clip-on weapon sight that connects wirelessly to helmet-mounted vision systems including the enhanced night vision goggle binoculars and the next-gen integrated visual augmentation system and provides rapid target acquisition capabilities to the soldier. It gives users the ability to acquire targets day or night and in a range of degraded environmental conditions, providing strategic and tactical advantages on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cutting-edge technology ensures soldiers will have the most advanced weapon sight systems on the battlefield today,\u201d said Jerry Hathaway, senior vice president and general manager of DRS\u2019s Electro-Optical Infrared Systems business. \u201cWe are proud the U.S. Army recognizes us as a trusted partner to continue to deliver this vital technology to our warfighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to FWS-I, Leonardo DRS has an extensive installed base of electro-optical and infrared technology across the U.S. military. Advanced sensing capability is a key strategic focus for the company providing world-leading sensing and laser technologies for a range of aircraft protection and mounted and unmounted sensors supporting the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmetadata alt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<small><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis entry was posted<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton Thursday, August 29th, 2024 at 19:00\t\t\t\t\t\tand is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/army\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Army<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/contracts\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Contracts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/optics\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Optics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/press-release\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Press Release<\/a>.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/2024\/08\/29\/leonardo-drs-awarded-117m-production-order-for-family-of-weapon-sights\/feed\/\">RSS 2.0<\/a> feed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can skip to the end and leave a response. 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The production order for $117 million was made under the current Family of Weapon Sights \u2013 Individual (FWS-I) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}