BAE SYSTEMS Awarded Contract for Facilities Management and Operation of Holston Army Ammunition Plant.Business Editors ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2003 BAE SYSTEMS BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. will continue to manage the U.S. Army's Holston Ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). 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 Bruce, Scottish royal family descended from an 11th-century Norman duke, Robert de Brus. He aided William I in his conquest of England (1066) and was given lands in England. Hamilton Hamilton, city, Bermuda Hamilton, city (1990 est. pop. 3,100), capital of Bermuda, on Bermuda Island. It is a port at the head of Great Sound, a huge lagoon and deepwater harbor protected by coral reefs. , President, BAE SYSTEMS Technology Solutions Sector. "We are committed to the strategy that was the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of our successful bid for the Holston Army Ammunition Plant to make Holston the Center of Excellence for explosives manufacturing." About BAE SYSTEMS BAE SYSTEMS is a systems company, innovating for a safer world. BAE SYSTEMS employs nearly 100,000 people including joint ventures, and has annual sales of around $18 billion. The company offers a global capability in air, sea, land and space with a world-class prime contracting ability supported by a range of key skills. BAE SYSTEMS designs, manufactures and supports military aircraft, surface ships, submarines, radar, avionics avionics (ā'vēŏn`ĭks), electronic instruments used in air or space flight; also the design and production of such instruments. Early planes had few instruments, but as aviation and aircraft became more complex, so did instrumentation. , communications, electronics, guided weapon systems and a range of other defense products. BAE SYSTEMS is dedicated to making the intelligent connections needed to deliver innovative solutions. BAE SYSTEMS North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. is a high-technology U.S. company with more than 25,000 employees who live and work in some 30 states, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). and the United Kingdom. The company is dedicated to solving its customers' needs with both highly innovative and leading-edge solutions across the defense electronics, systems, information technology and services arenas. BAE SYSTEMS Ordnance Systems is a leading ordnance company working on the cutting edge of technology. The company operates the Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Kingsport, Tenn., and has about 200 people providing total management of all site activities involved in the production, handling, and supply of high explosives to meet the requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense. |
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