SESI Ft. Knox

The RCSS is a proven, tested, mine clearing robot

SESI’s Kentucky office recently started work on the Large Aircraft Start System (LASS) program. The LASS system is a Honeywell gas turbine engine integrated onto a trailer, and is used to start large Air Force aircraft like the C-17. This four-year, $70M effort will involve the design, fabrication, and test of two prototypes followed by as many as 135 production units. Assembly and test will be done at SESI’s Huntsville location with engineering support from SESI Maryland. SESI won this program in a full and open competition against three other competitors, including one very large business.

SESI Kentucky provides specific expertise in the areas of robotics and engineering support to the Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Knox, KY.

The RC20 is a proven, rugged performer

SESI Kentucky has designed, produced, and tested a mine clearing and obstacle breaching robot system consisting of the robotic vehicle, operator control unit, communications link, and mission packages as part of the Robotic Combat Support System (RCSS) program for the United States Army. This vehicle underwent extensive testing for the Army at both Yuma Proving Grounds and at Redstone Arsenal.

We offer a variant of that vehicle, the RC-20 robot. It is a rugged, teleoperated, robotic vehicle capable of performing multiple tasks.

Our experienced hardware and software engineers provide daily support to the Test and Experimentation Division of the Unit of Action Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Knox, KY. Our current effort for that Customer is the integration of a robotic hardware in the loop simulator into the virtual experimentation system at the lab. The end state of that effort will be the control of a live robot in by Soldiers operating systems in the virtual world.