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Air Force

ATK To Produce More 20mm PGU-Series Ammunition For Navy, Marines And Air Force

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

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ATK [ATK] yesterday said it received an order valued at more than $58.7 million to produce multiple variants of 20mm PGU-series ammunition. The contract, from the Army Contracting Command, Direct Fire Munitions Branch, Rock Island Contracting Center (RICC), Rock Island, Ill., is the third order under a contract originally signed in September 2008. If all options are exercised, ATK’s contract is expected to exceed $170 million by 2013. ATK will produce PGU-27A/B Target Practice (TP), PGU-30A/B Target Practice-Tracer (TP-T), PGU-28A/B Semi-Armor…

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