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Navy’s Indian Head Division Making Progress On Road To Increasing Energetics Capacity

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

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Navy’s Indian Head Division Making Progress On Road To Increasing Energetics Capacity

An engineer casting an explosive test article at the Navy's Indian Head energetics division. Photo: Matthew Poynor, U.S. Navy photographer

INDIAN HEAD, Md.—The Navy’s premier facility for developing and producing energetics for munitions and rocket motors is nearing completion of the initial phase of a long-term modernization effort that starts with unlocking latent capacity, and is transitioning to the second phase when it begins to add additional equipment and new processes to boost volumes in response to surging demand. Phase one of the $2.7 billion, 15-year Energetics Comprehensive Modernization Plan (ECMP) is about 90 percent complete and has been focused…

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