
The Navy the past year has awarded X-Bow Systems five contracts worth a combined $60 million to modernize and automate energetics facilities at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division to increase production capacity, the company said on Tuesday. X-Bow said that under the phase one contracts it will design, develop, and procure long-lead equipment for several capabilities at Maryland-based Indian Head, including inert preparation facilities, propellant casting, automated propellant ingredient feeding, live rocket motor processing, and prototype premixing…