7480 Flying Cloud Drive
MN 55344 Minneapolis
United States
turn over / profit
anticipated FY10 revenue in excess of $4.7 billion
key regions of operation
U.S.A., Puerto Rico, International
CEO / chair
Dan Murphy
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
number of employees
18000
key sectors / activities
arms
about Alliant Techsystems
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the world's largest manufacturer of
ammunition and a leading supplier of precision systems and electronic warfare.
The company is also active in space and propulsion systems.
Alliant
Techsystems (ATK) is the designer and producer of the rocket motor of Textron's
Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW). We
consider the SFW a cluster bomb under the definition of the Oslo Convention.
ATK produces a key component for this cluster bomb.
"The
BLU-108 submunitions released from the Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) are propelled
by an ATK designed and produced rocket motor. The SFW, a 1,000-pound class
weapon, contains ten BLU-108 submunitions. The SFW was designed specifically to
provide upward axial thrust and rotational torque to the BLU-108 submunition,
releasing the skeet warheads at the end of motor burn. The upward thrust and
rotational torque is achieved by utilising dual tangential nozzles in the ATK
rocket motor."
The most
recent Textron SFW contract found is a "$92,938,707 firm-fixed-price contract
modification" dated 31 January 2007 and "provides for 291 Sensor Fuzed Weapons
(SFW) Full Rate Production, Lot 12 option
exercise."
This
contract was supposed to be completed in March 2009.