Author: Dominique Stump|| Date Published: September 28, 2016
The U.S. Army has awarded a $146.5 million contract modification to a BAE Systems subsidiary to construct an insensitive munitions weak nitric acid recovery facility at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee.
BAE’s ordnance systems unit is scheduled to finish work July 31, 2019, the Defense Departmentsaid Tuesday.
The Army Contracting Command has obligated the full amount amount of the modification from the service branch’s fiscal 2016 operations and procurement funds.
The Holston Army Ammunition Plant is built to research, develop, test and produce high explosives and insensitive munitions explosives for defense agencies.
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