Army awards ammunition contract to alliance

Alliant Tech Systems (ATK) and Allied Defense Group won a contract from the US Army to provide 105 mm main gun ammunition. See the press release here. The ammo will be for the Stryker Main Gun System, which is a Stryker wheeled vehicle with a 105 mm gun in a low profile turret. This has been deployed to Iraq to provide the Stryker units some heavy firepower. The contract is worth $7.4 M over two years. ATK is a company that was created when Honeywell spun off some of their defense business and it later acquired Hercules Aviation and Thiokol Propulsion. For more on the company see this.

DoD lifts ban on ATK receiving contracts

February 14, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Department of Defense, Editorial 

According to this article in The Salt Lake Tribune, the DoD lifted the recent ban on ATK caused by a lawsuit about the quality of the flares they had delivered to the Air Force. See the article here. The lawsuit is still pending in Federal Court. An earlier post about this can be found here.