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Defense Industry News - Lockheed Martin |
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Tuesday,
February 1, 2011, 17:37 PM |
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| Lockheed
Martin Receives Contract for HIMARS High Mobility Artillery
Rocket System for US Army. |
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DALLAS --- Lockheed Martin has received a $139.6 million
contract to provide 44 combat-proven High Mobility Artillery
Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to the U.S. Army. This order will
increase the Army's HIMARS launcher fleet to 375, with deliveries
continuing through January 2013. Work on the contract will
be performed at the company's facilities in Camden, AR,
and Grand Prairie, TX.
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"HIMARS brings soldiers an agile, responsive and
accurate delivery system of extremely precise fires,"
said Col. David J. Rice, U.S. Army program manager for
Precision Fires, Rocket and Missile Systems. "HIMARS
continues to impress everybody with its performance and
versatility, the system is reliable, robust and exceptionally
effective in theater."
"Half of the more than 1,900 Guided Multiple Launch
Rocket System (MLRS) rockets expended by the U.S. Army
and Marine Corps in Iraq and Afghanistan have been fired
from HIMARS," said Scott Arnold, vice president for
Precision Fires at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
"HIMARS has proven itself to soldiers to be highly
reliable and relevant in today's battlefield, and its
operational readiness rate continues to exceed requirements,
a testament to the quality of the system."
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