BAE Systems partners with US Army on M109 Paladin upgrades
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The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) ensures further development to provide options that enhance long range fires, enhance technology and improve artillery systems Soldiers are using in operations today.
The M109-52 prototype delivers a low-risk technical solution and lower-cost approach that provides necessary core warfighting capabilities more rapidly.
“We are working with DEVCOM-AC to continue modernising the US Army’s long-range precision fires needs,” said Dan Furber, artillery product line director for BAE Systems’ Combat Mission Systems business. “We’re bringing together battle-proven systems with mature technologies to secure a significant leap forward in capability at a much lower cost – that's the power in partnership.”
The CRADA builds upon previous work and testing performed independently by both BAE Systems and DEVCOM-AC to create a faster development pathway for new artillery capabilities and lethality upgrades to the M109A7 Paladin.
Continued work on the M109-52 will take place at Picatinny Arsenal and BAE Systems’ US-based defence industrial base including Anniston, Alabama, Elgin, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sterling Heights, Michigan and York, Pennsylvania.
