The order will be the first processed through the newly completed energetics facility in Camden, Arkansas, built under a Defense Production Act Title III cooperative agreement and is designed to increase annual GMLRS motor output by more than 30 percent, L3Harris said Thursday.
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Production will be split between the new 60,000-square-foot Camden facility of L3Harris’s Aerojet Rocketdyne business and an inert component line at the Advanced Manufacturing Facility–South in Huntsville, Alabama.
“L3Harris and Department of War investments in expanding capacity and modernizing solid rocket motor production are bearing fruit, ensuring L3Harris continues delivering critical propulsion capability at scale and at speed to the U.S. and its allies,” said Scott Alexander, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s president for missile solutions.
L3Harris has increased GMLRS motor output by nearly 80 percent in recent years by adopting automated processes and consolidating manufacturing lines. Those gains build on earlier Pentagon funding to expand the industrial base, including a $215.6 million cooperative agreement awarded to Aerojet Rocketdyne in 2023 to modernize propulsion facilities producing GMLRS, Stinger and Javelin motors.
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