Taking fabrication to the extreme is an everyday occurrence at Howe and Howe Technologies. In fact, it's a requirement. This Waterboro, Maine fabricator featured on the Discovery Channel designs, develops and builds 'extreme' vehicles featuring unprecedented capabilities. Their business is about 60% military, and 40% private, and 100% awe-inspiring.
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Another day, another cool Discovery Channel show tight with the SolidWorks community. The "Black Ops Brothers, Howe & Howe Tech" show stars Geoff and Mike Howe, who have been called "The Wright brothers of the military." Hey, we admire the Wright brothers and all, but they never built anything like the Howe twins have produced.
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If we could rewind the clock 25 years, native Mainers Geoff and Mike Howe could easily be mistaken for Hazzard County, Georgia's legendary Duke Boys. Well, on second thought, I suppose one might stumble upon a few differences...
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KENT, Wash., December 8, 2010 – Flow International Corporation (NASDAQ: FLOW) announces that Howe and Howe Technologies, a leading Extreme Vehicle Fabricator featured on the Discovery Channel, has added Flow's Mach 3 waterjet cutting system as a key element in their fabricating process. "The Flow waterjet has become the key machine tool in our fabrication shop," explains Mike Howe. "Since it was installed, it has been used on pretty much every project we've taken on. It's at least doubled, if not tripled, our efficiency."
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After evaluating the Pro/ENGINEER® and SolidWorks® 3D design packages, Howe and Howe Technologies chose SolidWorks Premium software as its 3D solution because the software is easier to use, outputs more compatible design data, and integrates well with the firm's fabrication systems. Since implementing...
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NORTH BERWICK, Maine Two defense contractors received some good news Wednesday from U.S. Sen. Susan Collins who said the Senate has approved millions of dollars in defense spending. If approved by the joint Senate and U.S. House conference committee and by President Barack Obama, the Pratt & Whitney plant in North Berwick would benefit from the full funding request by the Air Force and Navy for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to Collins. Pratt & Whitney makes the aircraft's jet engine...
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DOVER -- Outside a nondescript warehouse at the Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County sit two all-terrain vehicles. Smaller than tanks, larger than Humvees, they look like leftovers from the Mad Max set plastered with U.S. Army stickers. ripsaw-track-vehicle-picatinny-arsenal-dover.JPGAlexandra Pais/For The Star-LedgerRipsaw, a man- or remote-operated track vehicle at Picatinny Arsenal in Dover. They are just prototypes, but engineers at Picatinny believe these are the kinds of robotic vehicles ...
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By Bjorn Mean Machine Troops could use the Ripsaw as an advance scout, sending it a mile or two ahead of a convoy, and use its cameras and new sensor technology to sniff out roadside bombs or ambushes John B. Carnett Today's featured Invention Award winner really requires no justification--it's an unmanned, armed tank faster than anything the US Army has. Behold, the Ripsaw. Cue up the Ripsaw's greatest hits on YouTube, and you can watch the unm...
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Mr. President, this week is National Small Business Week, a time when our country focuses on the immense efforts our 27 million small businesses make to the health and vitality of our Nation's economy. As we are presently engaged in two wars, innovative companies that produce cutting-edge defense products are critical to our Nation's military success. In that vein, I rise to recognize the colossal efforts of one such small business from my home State of Maine, Howe and Howe Technologies. Loc...
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ELIOT, Maine Inventors/military contractors/"rock-star engineers" Geoff and Mike Howe were on the phone with their mother earlier this week when the June issue of Popular Science hit newsstands. Deidre Howe had bought the twin brothers a subscription when they were 6 years old; 28 years later, one of her boys' inventions was going to be featured on the cover. They listened in as she walked into the Barnes and Noble in Bangor, picked up a copy with their Ripsaw tank on it, and promptly started...
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ELIOT, Maine The Ripsaw Unmanned Ground Vehicle is ripping through the awards circuit. The full-sized vehicle, which was designed and developed by Eliot-based Howe and Howe Technologies Inc., was honored as one of the top inventions of the year in Popular Science's June issue, currently on newsstands. The four-ton, 700-horsepower vehicle rides on a pair of large treads and looks something like a sleek tank, which is appropriate given that it is being prepped for military use. The vehicle i...
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The latest invention by Howe and Howe Technologies is virtually unstoppable ? much like the recent growth of the company itself. The SR-1 subterranean rover, a mean-looking, black personnel carrier resembling the legendary Batmobile, can endure cratered terrain, fireball blasts, and cave-ins. Those are the kinds of danger faced by miners working thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. Twin brothers and company owners Geoff and Mike Howe recently shipped out the first completed SR-1 to...
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It seems like everybody's talking about it these days. This unmanned tank that tops 60 mph, can be fitted with a remote gun system and plows over concrete barriers like its a wall of foam. Colin's down at the Army Science Conference and they're raving about it: Thats the Ripsaw MS1, a tracked unmanned ground vehicle that no less than Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Armys vice chief of staff, called an an amazing piece of gear this morning. The Ripsaw may be one of those development...
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Twins Mike (left) and Geoffrey Howe of Howe and Howe Technologies in Eliot show off 'Badger,' which they're building for the California Civil Protection Services for use by SWAT teams and other police agencies. 'We say, Let's just do this because it's never been done before,' said Mike Howe.
The remote-controlled 'Ripsaw' could lead convoys where roadside bombs are a threat or assist soldiers under fire. Find out more about Howe and Howe Technologies' tanks and watch a video of them in a...
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The great American success story is not dead. Like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, we still produce a few young men and women who conceive an idea, stick with and work with it to produce a new item that improves the entire world. And get rich in the process. Twins Geoff and Mike Howe of Berwick, Maine are a ripe 34-years-old. Their computer-directed armored tank goes into action carrying no men and very little armor. From one to five miles in the rear it's guided and fired by a computer-trained...
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Identical twin brothers Mike and Geoff Howe have been building things together since they were children growing up in Augusta. We were always taking stuff apart and putting things together, said Mike in his office at Howe & Howe Technologies located on route 236 in Eliot. We really didn't receive toys as kids, added Geoff with a smile, we got tools. Their first project together of any size was a log cabin that they built when they were eight. And now the brothers have a new project. The federa...
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Mike pushes for an amphibious Rip Tide test, but the vehicle loses transmission control when it tries to get back on land.
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Ripsaw MS2 and the Howe Brother's Mike and Geoff were featured on Popular Science's Future Of...
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MS1 and Howe and Howe Technologies, Inc. was featured on Great Americans on January 20, 2009. To view the video and article click here.
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Ripsaw MS1 was featured on G4 T.V. Attack of the Show on December 10, 2008. To view the video click here.
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Howe and Howe Technologies, Inc. and Ripsaw MS1 was featured on FOX News December 3, 2008. To see this news broadcast click here.
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Howe and Howe Technologies, Inc. and Ripsaw MS1 premiered on the Military Channel show Backyard to Battlefield on August 11, 2008.
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