DALLAS, TX, January 31st, 2011 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] 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.
“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.”
The system can accommodate a six-pack of Guided MLRS rockets or one
Army Tactical Missile System missile. HIMARS, a highly mobile artillery rocket system based on the Army’s FMTV five-ton truck, is designed to launch the entire MLRS Family of Munitions.
