EaglePicher to Provide Thermal Batteries

EaglePicher Technologies LLC, Joplin, Mo., is being awarded a $7,096,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of Thermal Lithium Battery High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile Control Section Replacement Thermal Batteries for the U.S. Air Force. This effort will include design, one-time performance, test, manufacture and acceptance requirements for a multi-tapped, squib-activated, lithium or lithium alloy anode, thermal battery. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif., is the contracting activity.