The Army's Third Generation Forward Looking Infrared (3rd Gen FLIR) system has entered the engineering and manufacturing development phase, with the service awarding a trio of contracts this month. Raytheon won the sole contract to produce the sensor's B-Kits, which include a set of "components that will be integrated to sights of ground vehicles," according to the contract notice. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract is valued at $56.7 million and $7.25 million in fiscal year 2016 research, development, test and evaluation funds...
