ATK has been awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with an $84 million ceiling for First Article Testing and production of the FMU-143 Bomb Fuze for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.

Initial orders under the contract are valued at $52 million. The U.S. Army's Contracting Center at Rock Island, Ill., issued ATK the award as the prime contractor, teaming with L-3 Fuzing and Ordnance Systems (FOS).

The FMU-143 is used on penetrating weapons such as the BLU-109 and BLU-113 for the defeat of hard and deeply buried enemy targets. These weapons are designed with technology that enables them to stay intact upon impact and penetrate deep into the interior of hardened sites, where the FMU-143 provides a delayed detonation to ensure a more complete destruction of the hardened target.