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>Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics said Tuesday that it won a two-year, $49.9 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to help develop automated combat vehicles for the U.S. Army.
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>The company said the vehicles will be tailored for reconnaissance, surveillance and other missions that would present a high risk to a human driver.

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