Mary-Louise Hoffman
BAE 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.
