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Chemring Group PLC To Provide U.S. Army HMDS Spares

Gally Articola

Friday, June 7th, 2013

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The U.K.'s Chemring Group PLC said its U.S. subsidiary, Non-Intrusive Inspection Technology Inc. (NIITEK) was awarded a $76 million delivery order to provide spares for the U.S. Army’s Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS). The delivery order is issued under the $579 million multi-year HMDS Ground Penetrating Radar indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded April 30, 2012. The performance for this contract is through May 2014. The NIITEK HMDS is a high-performance Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) system on Husky vehicles that provides real-time identification…

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