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Article: United States: ATK chooses hardened GPS receivers from IEC for artillery munitions guidance.
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- March 24, 2008
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Byline: yunus05
Engineers at Alliant TechSystems Inc. (ATK) in Edina, Minn., needed global positioning system (GPS) receivers for the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) program that ATK supervises for the U.S. Army. They found their solution from L-3 Interstate Electronics Corp. (IEC) in Anaheim, Calif.
IEC is providing its TruTrak Evolution GPS receiver (TTE) to ATK as a key component for the PGK program. L-3's TTE receiver is a gun-hardened, miniaturized GPS receiver designed for the fuze well of munitions to provide positioning data for the guidance system. The PGK design combines a proprietary aerodynamic steering technique ...