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Anniston

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Anniston (ăn`ĭstən), city (1990 pop. 26,623), seat of Calhoun co., NE Ala., in a mining region of the Appalachian foothills; inc. 1873. Its manufactures include soil pipes, textiles, lumber, bricks, cabinets, and vaccines. Founded (1872) as an ironmaking "company town," it was opened to the public in 1883. The Anniston Army Depot is the site of a chemical weapons disposal facilty. Nearby Fort McClellan, headquarters of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) until 1978, was central to Anniston's economy until its closing in 1999 and is undergoing redevelopment.


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Honeywell is working with the Army's Program Manager Heavy Brigade Combat Team, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) and Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) under the contract to provide parts, engineering, depot and field support services, enabling ANAD to reset and maintain approximately 750 engines.
Facilities at Newport Chemical Depot, Indiana, Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah, and Umatilla Chemical Depot, Oregon, continue operations.
The Corps intends to award a single IDIQ contract at each of these locations: Fort Rucker AL, Redstone Arsenal AL, Anniston Army Depot, AL, Hurlburt Field FL, Tyndall AFB FL, MacDill AFB FL.
 
 
 
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