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Modernization Continues At ATK Lake City Ammunition Plant

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Friday, April 18th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt ATK [ATK] continues modernizing the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., even as the plant produces about 1.4 billion cartridges a year as the primary production source for small caliber ammunition. "The only remaining small caliber Army ammunition plant is Lake City...we are considered a national asset," Randy Wisian, ATK Lake City director of modernization, told Defense Daily in a telephone interview. Lake City produces a mix of 5.56mm, 7.62mm, .50-caliber and 20mm cartridges. In…

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