AAI Awarded $2.05 Million Contract for Continued Lightweight Small Arms Technologies Development
U.S. Army to Validate Ammunition during Dismounted Non-Networked ExperimentHUNT VALLEY, Md. — AUGUST 6, 2013 — AAI’s Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) team, part of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today it has been awarded a $2.05 million contract through the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium to further innovate both its caseless and cased telescoped lightweight ammunition and weapon technologies. This ordnance technology initiative includes three major thrusts. It continues to refine the LSAT 5.56mm Cased Telescoped ammunition