Crane Army Ammunition Activity

Crane Army Ammunition Activity (CAAA) stores, receives, produces and demilitarizes conventional ammunition. It also designs, develops and improves ordnance components and processes.

Capabilities
Capabilities of the center include: munitions and manufacturing; demilitarization; munitions and munitions-related maintenance and renovation; remote operations and environmental testing; logistics support; machine shop; chemical laboratory; and engineering.

History
CAAA was established in 1977 as a tenant on Naval Support Activity Crane (established in 1941 as Crane Naval Ammunition Depot) to implement the “single manager for conventional ammunition” concept. In October 1999, command and control of Letterkenny Munitions Center transferred to CAAA.

Facilities
The facilities at CAAA include 209 production buildings, a 72000 sqft machine shop, 1,800 storage buildings for both explosive and inert ammunition with a total capacity of 4800000 sqft, an 80 acre demolition range and 40 acre of ammunition burning grounds.

BRAC 2005
CAAA will gain the detonator, relays and delays workload from Kansas Army Ammunition Plant. It will also gain the demolition charges workload from Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant. Both of these facilities are closing due to BRAC 2005. CAAA will also gain the ammunition demilitarization function from Sierra Army Depot which is realigning due to BRAC 2005.


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