Orbital ATK receives $50 million in orders to supply ammunition

Orbital ATK, a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today that it has been awarded a $50 million order from the U.S. government to supply non-U.S. standard ammunition (NSA) for the Department of Defense in support of international allies. The U.S. government awarded the order to Orbital ATK under Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity and Basic Ordering Agreement contracts.

Orbital ATK has been a leading supplier to the government’s NSA program since the program’s inception in 2008. The company’s expertise in program, technical and supply chain management, and a worldwide team of proven suppliers has made Orbital ATK a reliable provider of NSA products to the United States and its allies. Including this award, Orbital ATK received orders under the NSA program of more than $200 million in 2016.

Orbital ATK is the operator of the U.S. Army’s Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri, where it is the largest manufacturer of small caliber ammunition for the U.S Department of Defense.

- ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW -

Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons, advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across air-, sea- and land-based systems, ammunition and related energetic products.

Readers who wish to follow our weekly coverage can subscribe to the Weekly Defense Roundup.

If you wish to report a grammatical or factual error in this article, please let us know by using the online form.

Executive Editor
  • In this story
  • USA

Support The Defence Blog

Independent reporting takes resources. Join us on Patreon.

Become a patron

More Like This

Pentagon wants to fix how America makes the steel for its weapons

DARPA, the Pentagon's advanced research agency responsible for some of the most consequential technological breakthroughs in American military history, has issued a request for...

US Air Force prepares to integrate nuclear warhead into new Sentinel ICBM

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to sole-source a contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems to integrate America's nuclear warhead reentry vehicle into the...

Pentagon wants mobile launchers to test missile defense systems

America's missile defense testing program has a logistics problem, and the Pentagon wants industry to solve it: the Missile Defense Agency, the organization responsible...

Raytheon secures $1.1B deal for AIM-9X missile production

Raytheon has secured a $1.1 billion contract modification to produce nearly 2,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, and...

Passive infrared sensing joins Picket’s Inferno RTC drone killer

Two American defense technology companies have partnered to integrate a 360-degree passive infrared sensing system into a close-in counter-drone platform, combining LightPath Technologies' all-around...