The Excalibur Program Office April 3 said it transitioned to Increment Ib production and heads toward a summer decision on full-rate production, now that it has completed assembly of the last Increment Ia-2 projectile, officials with Program Executive Office (PEO) Ammunition and Raytheon [RTN] said. Developer Raytheon, meanwhile, is working on some Excalibur advances. First fielded in 2007, Excalibur is the Army's GPS-guided, precision 155 mm artillery projectile. It couples GPS technology with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to provide…
