Endeavor Robotics and Leidos Partner for US Navy Robotic System Creation
Endeavor Robotics and Leidos have announced a partnership where the two companies will come together in an effort to create the U.S. Navy Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) Increment 2 and 3 Program.
Endeavor Robotics, with help from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and OpenJAUS LLC, has also created the AEODRS Systems Integration Test Bed (STB) facility at its headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts. The company is using AEODRS capability modules (CMs) from industry partners to validate its AEODRS integration capabilities.
“A combined Endeavor Robotics/Leidos team brings together the United States’ most mature and successful ground robotics systems integrator with the nation’s largest enterprise in the federal technology solutions sector to deliver the lowest risk and most capable team for the U.S. Navy,” said Endeavor Robotics President Tom Frost via a company press release.
In regards to the AEODRS technology, Frost added, “Our AEODRS STB validates our ability to evaluate CMs and perform functional checkouts as part of the incremental and iterative system integration approach enabled by the U.S. Navy’s open architecture and standardized interfaces. Our experience integrating products across our robot family, along with a deep understanding of the AEODRS architecture, positions us as an extremely low risk prime system integrator with ground robotics domain expertise on AEODRS Increment 2 and 3. Having multiple PSIs and multiple CM providers within the AEODRS family of systems enables the vision of open architecture unmanned ground systems.”
Senior Vice President and Operations Manager of Leidos David Robbins said he is optimistic that this partnership will result in the successful and timely completion of the AEODRS Increments 2 and 3 program.
“Our teaming arrangement with Endeavor Robotics leverages the best of both companies’ talents and capabilities, and together we are well positioned to deliver the AEODRS Increments 2 and 3 program on schedule with the lowest possible risk,” said Robbins.
