Teledyne FLIR Selected as Thermal Camera Provider for the Red Cat Drone Black Widow U.S. Army SRR Program Award

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced it has been selected by Red Cat Holdings, Inc., to provide thermal imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded software for its Black Widow small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS). Red Cat was selected as the winner of the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record after an evaluation process completed by the Army Project Management Office for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, Army Maneuver Battle Lab, Army Test and Evaluation Command, and Army Operational Test Center. The U.S. Army’s current acquisition objective is for 5,880 systems, with each system consisting of two aircraft.

Red Cat incorporated Teledyne FLIR’s NDAA-compliant Hadron 640R+ longwave infrared and mega-pixel visible camera module and its Prism AI embedded perception software into Black Widow, a highly capable, rucksack-portable sUAS designed for operation in Electronic Warfare (EW) environments. Black Widow’s fully modular architecture enables swift adaptation to diverse mission requirements, including SSR and secondary payload operation.