WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Secret Service met with General Motors executives this week in Michigan to discuss next-generation armored SUVs as the automaker works on the upcoming version of the presidential limousine, the agency said Friday.
According to Reuters, Secret Service director Dan Curran met with General Motors executives at the GM Global Design Center over in Warren, MI, to discuss new rides for both the President and the Secret Service. The Secret Service's official X account had this to say about the meeting:
"Countering evolving threats require (sic) us to constantly explore new innovations and improvements to our armored fleet of protective vehicles. Director Sean Curran met with GM executives to discuss advancements that could benefit the next generation of armored SUVs."
In that same post, the account shared a picture from the meeting showing an Escalade-badged, armored SUV. Reading the tea leaves, there's a good chance that those will be the next Secret Service chase vehicles.
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Featured in this latest news release, was a picture of the Immersion Graphics, Inc. (IGI) large scale, high resolution, visualization system known as the IGI DesignView. The IGI DesignView is the digital version of a rolling board that was widely used by automotive design teams before large scale visualization was born.
About IGI:
Immersion Graphics, Inc. (IGI) provides audio visual design, engineering, consulting, product sales, control system programming, custom fabrication, installation, preventative maintenance, and extended support services out of its headquarters location in Detroit and west coast operation in Los Angeles. Additional offices are located in Indianapolis, and Grand Rapids.
Founded in 1998, IGI has installed numerous large-scale, ultra-high resolution systems throughout the U.S. in the automotive, higher education, medical, financial, and energy transmission markets, and for the United States military and other government agencies. Applications include industrial design, engineering and data visualization, mission-critical command & control room environments, presentation systems, video conferencing, digital signage, and a variety of commercial AV solutions for emerging markets where the simultaneous visualization of 3D models and complex data by a group is essential to effective decision making. To get an in depth look at what we do, see our website at www.werigi.com, we are IGI.
IGI is minority owned, veteran owned, and a small business and SBA 8(a) program graduate.
