As part of this partnered effort, NSWC IHD is renovating two facilities to establish a TATB and TATB-based plastic bonded explosives production plant. This upgraded TATB Synthesis Facility will leverage existing infrastructure and capabilities within NSWC IHD’s Energetics Manufacturing Department, including the adjacent Agile Chemical Facility’s spent acid waste handling and state-of-the-art control room. TATB-based plastic bonded explosives are powerful explosives insensitive to shock, vibration, fire or impact, which makes them a preferred application where extreme safety is required, such as the explosives used in nuclear weapons. “As the Navy’s only arsenal, this agreement allows for facility upgrades to ensure critical energetics are delivered to the warfighter and other customers.” “Our command, in partnership with Global Military Products, will develop a pilot-scale prototype production capability at NSWC IHD for TATB and other compositions,” said NSWC IHD Technical Director Ashley Johnson. Department of Energy – will result in a four-year prototype facilitization project to manufacture insensitive high-explosive compositions for strategic systems in support of both the Department of Defense and NNSA.
The agreement – sponsored by National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) recently signed a Naval Energetic Systems and Technologies (NEST) Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Global Military Products (GMP) for the production of triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB).
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