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Army

ATK Garners More Than $100 Million For Ammunition Production And Development

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 4th, 2014

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ATK Garners More Than $100 Million For Ammunition Production And Development

Ammunition, Lake City Army Ammunition Plant Photo: U.S. Army

ATK [ATK] Wednesday said it received several domestic contracts totaling more than $112 million for medium- and large-caliber ammunition production and development for ammunition to arm aircraft such as the A-10, AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and the AC-130 gunship, as well as training ammunition for crews maintaining their gunnery expertise on the Apache and Abrams main battle tank. The contracts were awarded through Army Maneuver Ammunition Systems in its role as the Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition, the organization responsible…

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