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Battelle, AMCOM, Changing Sustainment For Fielded Aviation, Missiles

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Battelle and the Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) are working together on the Continuous Technology Refreshment (CTR) program to address the decades old problem of obsolescence and technology insertion for fielded weapon systems, according to an official. "We currently have about 20 parts in process that we calculated a savings to the Army of over $850 million over a 10-year period of time," Ken Noland, Battelle Marketing Director for AMCOM, told Defense Daily. The primary issue…

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