July 2, 2008 @ 1:56 pm
· Filed under Alliant Techsystems, Contract Awards, NASA, U.S. Air Force, missile defense, production program, space
Alliant Techsystems was awarded a contract by the US Air Force to provide sounding rockets for it and NASA’s use. See a press release here. Sounding rockets tend to be small, single stage rockets that stay suborbital. They can be used to simulate targets for ballistic missile defense tests and experiments, and also support NASA activities and experiments. One common use before the Test Ban Treaty was to collect data from nuclear tests in the Pacific and the American West.
Tagged with: Alliant Techsystems, ballistic missile defense, missile defense tests, NASA, nasa activities, nuclear tests, press release, sounding rockets, stage rockets, targets, test ban treaty, us air force
April 14, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
· Filed under Alliant Techsystems, Allied Defense Group, Contract Awards, U.S. Army, production program
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.
Tagged with: acct, alliant tech systems, Allied Defense Group, atk, gun ammunition, pl, press release, U.S. Army
April 10, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
· Filed under Acquisitions, Alliant Techsystems, Canada
According to this article the Canadian government denied the sale of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.’s satellite business to Alliant Techsystems Inc. See a previous post about the planned sale here. Canada cited the fact that if the company became American the laws protecting US technology exports would deny Canada access to the company’s satellite that focuses on the Canadian Arctic. Due to several scandals in the Nineties the US ramped up the laws governing technology transfer and export and make it very difficult to do this. Read the rest of this entry »
Tagged with: Alliant Techsystems, alliant techsystems inc, allies, Canada, canadian arctic, canadian government, macdonald dettwiler and associates, macdonald dettwiler and associates ltd, nineties, satellite business, scandals, technology exports, technology transfer
February 6, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
· Filed under Alliant Techsystems, Suspensions, U.S. Air Force, production program
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Air Force has temporarily banned Alliant Techsystems from bidding on contracts due to a lawsuit filed by a former employee related to the company’s flares. See the article here. Alliant is appealing this decision, but in the short term will not be able to bid on any contract until the case is resolved. Because it is a whistleblower case the US Department of Justice is involved.
February 4, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
· Filed under Alliant Techsystems, Contract Awards, U.S. Army, logistics, production program
The Army gave Alliant Techsystems a $29 M contract to upgrade the ammunition plant in Radford, VA. See Forbes.com for more. Alliant is paid by the Army to manage the plant, and this contract will modernize the facility. Read the rest of this entry »
