The US Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) has entered into a public-private partnership (PPP) with Global Military Products (a subsidiary of ammunition and firearms provider Global Ordnance) to jointly develop, qualify and manufacture energetic materials and ordnance systems over the next 20 years.
Partnership manufacturing activities will be performed in existing NSWC IHD facilities ‘while providing safe and effective energetic solutions to the warfighter’, Global Ordnance noted in a 13 October statement.
Marc Morales, president of Global Military Products and owner of Global Ordnance, said: ‘We look forward to opportunities to develop and qualify energetics that enhance the capabilities of the US military."
The latest agreement is the fifth of its kind for NSWC IHD. It has the legal authority to establish PPP agreements for the development, manufacture, test, maintenance, and storage of energetic materials, and ordnance systems.
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