18-03-2025
EaglePicher secures $20 million Air Force contract for missile batteries
JOPLIN, Mo. — It is another multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for EaglePicher Technologies in Joplin.
Close to a 20-million dollar contract from the United States Air Force to produce guidance systems batteries for ballistic missiles.
Specifically, Minuteman-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which is part of a fleet critical to America's defense strategy, and has been since 1970.
The silver-zinc batteries will be produced solely in Joplin for the next 5 years.
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'So it – and it is an older design, which makes it very, very, very, very unique. And that's why there is limited people that can do this. EaglePicher is one of only two in the entire country that can build this type of battery, and so we are in a unique position. There's a lot of engineering that's gone in this system. We're only delivering roughly a hundred, 120 batteries in the end, but there's a lot of engineering behind that to get that to that point, because this battery hasn't been made in over 20 years,' said Camie Platner, EPT defense & space systems program mgr.
Of course, the company's role in this kind of work is nothing new.
It has a long history of supplying specialized power solutions for military and aerospace applications.
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