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Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches New Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System with Advanced Counter-Drone Capabilities
Next-generation Air Domain Awareness confirms clear airspace and boosts counter-drone operations beyond line of sight ELKRIDGE, MD, March 29, 2022 ― Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), today announced the launch of a new Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System (LVSS) with revolutionary air domain awareness (ADA) and advanced counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities. The LVSS ADA C-UAS is an enhanced addition to Teledyne FLIR’s field-proven LVSS platform that features reliable, rapidly deployable, cutting-edge technology to detect and mitigate the growing threat of small drones.
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The Big Problem with Small Drones
Governments around the globe face a growing need for flexible, tailorable, and affordable Counter-sUAS solutions
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As Drone Strikes Rise, Multi-Layered Approach is Crucial to Countering New and Emerging Threats
New Whitepaper from Teledyne FLIR Defense Finds Counter-Drone Solutions Must be Modular, Interoperable and Cost-Effective to Combat Growing Risks Posed by State and Non-State Actors ELKRIDGE, MD. / RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, March 8, 2022 ― In a new whitepaper, Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), finds that a multi-layered approach, incorporating common architectures and information sharing, among other imperatives, is needed to address the threat to life and property posed by weaponized use of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS).
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Teledyne FLIR Introduces Comprehensive Online Developer Support Tools for Lepton Thermal Camera Module Integration
Teledyne FLIR, working with developers, has taken those learnings to develop a new set of comprehensive online support tools to empower the next generation of designers, engineers, and developers to create new devices and uses with the Lepton. Available at http://www.flir.com/leptonintegration, this new site features everything needed to start integrating the Lepton into handheld mobile, IoT, unmanned, or other imagined devices using Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Beaglebone platforms.
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New Aerial Solar Farm Inspection Takes Off for Wesii
An innovative new aerial inspection system for solar farms has been unveiled by Italian thermography specialist Wesii using the latest thermal imaging technology. By combining the high-resolution FLIR A8580 MWIR thermal camera and cooled sensor, it has replaced slow, low-altitude drone inspections with an aeroplane-based system to accurately inspect large numbers of panels quickly, even at lower irradiance, and with far greater data consistency.
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Teledyne Appoints JihFen Lei as Executive Vice President of Teledyne FLIR Defense
Newly Named Organization Brings the Surveillance and Unmanned Solutions Businesses Together to Enrich Product and Market Synergies THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., January 18, 2022 ― Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced that Dr. JihFen Lei has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Teledyne FLIR Defense, one of the leading providers of thermal imaging, unmanned systems, and intelligent sensing solutions to global security and public safety markets.
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Teledyne FLIR Wins Contract Worth Up to $15.7M to Develop Augmented Reality Technology that Displays Chem-Bio Threats
PITTSBURGH, PA., December 7, 2021 ― Teledyne FLIR announced it has won a development contract worth up to $15.7 million with the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office (DTRA JSTO) to develop novel battlefield threat mapping and visualization tools. The technology will allow the capability to digitally map hazardous material threats from sensor data and to ‘see’ their exact location via mixed reality on mobile phones, tablets, and Heads-Up Displays (HUDs).
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FLIR Systems and ANSYS to Advance Thermal Camera Machine Learning for Safer Cars
ARLINGTON, Va., January 7, 2020 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) and ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) are partnering to deliver superior hazard detection capabilities for assisted driving and autonomous vehicles (AVs) — empowering automakers to deliver unprecedented vehicle safety. Through this partnership, FLIR will integrate a fully physics-based thermal sensor into ANSYS’ leading-edge driving simulator to model, test, and validate thermal camera designs within an ultra-realistic virtual world. The new solution will reduce original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM) development time by optimizing thermal camera placement for use with tools such as automatic emergency braking (AEB), pedestrian detection, and within future AVs.
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FLIR at CES 2020
This week, FLIR is once again exhibiting at Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one of the world’s largest events featuring the latest innovative technologies, to showcase its products and solutions. Specifically, the company is introducing FLIR CITY, a vision to use FLIR intelligent sensing, AI, and cloud solutions to help cities become safer, smarter, and more connected. Also, FLIR is featuring its FLIR autonomous vehicle for testing thermal technology and for the first time at CES is showing products from its unmanned aerial and ground solutions portfolio, including the FLIR Black Hornet, which recently won Popular Science’s Best of What’s New Award for 2019.
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FLIR Awarded $92.9 Million Contract for Logistics Support to U.S. Army Product Manager Force Protection Systems
ARLINGTON, Va., December 16, 2019 ― FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) announced that it has been awarded a five-year, firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery, Indefinitely Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The IDIQ vehicle has a ceiling value of $92.9 million, with an initial order of $5.2 million.
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FLIR Launches Industry-First Deep Learning-Enabled Machine Vision Camera: Firefly DL
ARLINGTON, Va., October 15, 2019 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) today announced the launch of the FLIR Firefly® DL, the industry’s first deep learning, inference-enabled machine vision camera with FLIR Neuro technology. With its small size, low weight, minimal power consumption, and deep learning capabilities, the FLIR Firefly DL camera is ideal for embedding into mobile, desktop, and handheld systems.
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Drone Detection in the Spotlight
At FLIR, our teams around the world are tasked with developing innovative, cutting-edge technologies that equip warfighters and responders with the tools they need to face ever-evolving threats on the battlefield or other dangerous situations. We focus on producing intelligent sensing systems and integrated solutions that advance our core mission of saving lives and livelihoods.