The Pentagon awarded BAE Systems a $59.5 million contract for additional rocket guidance kits, the company announced Oct. 10. The new contract for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APWKS) is part of a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $618 million awarded to BAE Oct. 7, 2016. APKWS, used across the Defense Department, turns unguided 70 mm rockets into laser-guided precision munitions. "The mid-body system easily converts existing and new inventories of rockets into precision munitions by screwing...
