• Military Menu                       

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Industry
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• WMD
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

BAE SYSTEMS Awarded Contract For Facilities Management And Operation Of Holston Army Ammunition Plant

30 Apr 2003

ROCKVILLE, Maryland -- BAE Systems will continue to manage the U.S. Army's Holston Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tenn., under a $111 million contract modification. The new contract provides funding for the next five years of a 25-year contract originally awarded to BAE Systems in January 1999.

BAE Systems Ordnance Systems provides facility management and operation of the Holston facility to manufacture high explosives with the flexibility and rapid response needed to meet U.S. military requirements in peacetime or at war. Work under the contract will be performed by BAE Systems Ordnance Systems employees in Kingsport and extends until Sept. 2007.

"The value of this award acknowledges our early success in addressing the Army's long term goals and objectives established under the 25-year facility use contract," said Bruce Hamilton, President, BAE Systems Technology Solutions Sector. "We are committed to the strategy that was the cornerstone of our successful bid for the Holston Army Ammunition Plant to make Holston the Centre of Excellence for explosives manufacturing.