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BAE to Continue Army Rocket Propellant Production; Reed McPeak Comments

BAE to Continue Army Rocket Propellant Production; Reed McPeak Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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Bae-systems-logo_ExecutiveBiz1BAE Systems has been awarded a $50 million contract to manufacture additional propellant grains for the U.S. Army‘s Hydra 70 rockets.

The company said Thursday it has built MK 90 military-grade propellants at the Radford Amy Munition Plant in Virginia since October 2012.

Production work is slated to occur in the next two years.

Reed McPeak, vice president and general manager of BAE’s ordnance systems unit, said the grains are designed to fuel the helicopter-launched missile system Hydra 70.

The U.S. Defense Department has received nearly 500,000 MK 90s from the company to date.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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