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US Special Operations Command Orders $750Mln Worth of New Ammunition

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Eleven US munitions companies are being awarded a three quarters of a billion dollars US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) contract to buy numerous types of ammunition, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
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"[The eleven companies] are being awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract to allow USSOCOM the flexibility to procure numerous types of ammunition requirements for all USSOCOM components," the release said on Friday.
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The contract has a maximum total ceiling of $750 million, the release said.
General Dynamics, Sig Sauer, and nine other US-based ammunition companies were named as the contractors in the release.
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