August 17, 2006 As we reported on July 6, BAE Systems was recently selected to participate in the U.S. Army's six-month Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) technology development program designed to make ...

DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE:OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today that the company has signed a contract with the U.S. Army for ...

WASHINGTON — The US Army has awarded Orbital ATK with a $120 million contract modification to make kits that turn conventional 155mm artillery into a near-precision shell. The kits are meant to limit ...

February 8, 2007 The advent of precision guided munitions has completely changed the battlefield inside a few decades. Once bombs were dropped in vast numbers, as each one had a small probability of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems has successfully fired its Long-Range Precision Guidance Kit (LR-PGK) for 155mm artillery projectiles from the U.S. Army’s Extended Range Cannon ...

The US Army is developing precision-guided 155mm rounds that are longer range than existing shells and able to conduct combat missions in a GPS-denied war environment. The Precision Guidance Kit ...

July 23, 2017: While the GPS guided Excalibur 155mm artillery shell revolutionized the use of artillery when it appeared in 2005, it is being displaced by a smaller, less capable but much cheaper ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- As American troops prepare for the spring fighting season in Afghanistan, they have been training with a new capability to suppress insurgents. This March Picatinny Arsenal ...

Northrop Grumman Corp.’s NOC business unit, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., recently clinched a contract for supplying precision guidance kits (PGKs). The award has been offered by the Army ...

November 4, 2017: In late 2017 the U.S. Army ordered another 1,500 M982 GPS guided Excalibur 155mm artillery shells, to be delivered by 2019. These are expensive shells, costing over $60,000 each ...

FORT RILEY, Kansas -- Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, tested a new addition to conventional 155mm rounds during a ...

PGK replaces standard fuzing for conventional projectiles, transforming them into GPS-guided, precision weapons. (Northrop Grumman) WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman said it delivered to the U.S. Army ...