BAE to Get Green Light for $10 Billion Howitzer Project
- Army to give approval after 18-month delay over welding
- Program’s problems had attention of then-Army Secretary Esper
A Palladian Integrated Management (PIM) self-propelled howitzer prototype sits at the BAE Systems Plc Land & Armaments facility in York, Pennsylvania.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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BAE Systems Plc will win U.S. Army approval this month for full-rate production of self-propelled howitzers and ammunition carriers based on improvements in the $10 billion program after several years of delays over welding defects.
“BAE has met all requirements to enter into full-rate production and we anticipate that happening” during January, Sam Tricomo, a spokesman for the weapon’s Army program office, said in an email.