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General Atomics Gets $22 Million Navy Award For Railgun ACL

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded General Atomics a follow-on task order valued at $22 million for the completion of an Advanced Containment Launcher (ACL) in support of ONR's Innovative Naval Prototype (INP) Railgun program, the company said. This 34-month effort is focused on the final design, fabrication, and testing of an ACL prototype capable of delivering a muzzle energy of 32 megajoules. "This ACL is geared toward a demonstration in 2011," Tom Hurn, director,…

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