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Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK)At 1:52PM ET: 84.465  Down 1.025 (1.20%)  
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Alliant Techsystems Inc.
7480 Flying Cloud Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55344-3720
United States - Map
Phone: 952-351-3000
Fax: 952-351-3009
Web Site: http://www.atk.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 400 MidCap
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Industrial Goods
Industry:Aerospace/Defense Products & Services
Full Time Employees:17,000

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Alliant Techsystems, Inc. supplies aerospace and defense products to the U.S. government agencies, and its prime contractors and subcontractors. The company also supplies ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. Its ATK Armament Systems segment offers military ammunition and gun systems, such as small-caliber training and tactical ammunition rounds; medium-caliber ammunition, including fighting and light armored vehicles, helicopters, A-10 close-combat support aircraft, and AC-130 gunship aircraft; and chain guns for medium-caliber gun systems. This segment also provides ammunition, gun care products, targets and traps, rifle scopes and mounts, and binoculars to law enforcement agencies and sport shooting enthusiasts; solid extruded propellant for medium caliber and tank ammunition, artillery charge systems, and air and ground launched rockets; and commercial gun powder for sporting ammunition manufacturers, hunters, and sport shooters. The company’s ATK Launch Systems segment manufactures human and cargo space launch vehicles, conventional and strategic missiles, missile defense interceptors, and decoy and illuminating flares. Its ATK Mission Systems segment offers missile systems, precision-guided munitions, force protection systems, speed-of-light weapons, soldier weapon systems, barrier systems, large-caliber ammunition, tactical and hypersonic propulsion systems, warheads, fuzes, missile defense divert and control systems, electronic warfare and aircraft integration products, structural and engine components, radomes, and apertures; solar arrays and solar panel substrates; optical support structures; radio frequency antenna reflectors and antennas; composite bus structures, towers, and subsystems; thermal systems; deployable booms and masts; titanium propellant tanks; and insertion motors, as well as technical services. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Alliant Techsystems Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Jan-09 is better than 69% of S&P 400 companies and 86.1% of Capital Goods companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Dan Murphy Jr., 60
    Exec. Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Pres
    N/A N/A
    Mr. John L. Shroyer , 45
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. VP
    $ 876.00KN/A
    Mr. Mark W. DeYoung , 50
    Sr. VP and Pres of ATK Armament Systems
    $ 824.00K $ 618.00K
    Mr. Jack Cronin ,
    Sr. VP and Pres of ATK Mission Systems
    $ 817.00KN/A
    Mr. Ron Dittemore , 57
    Sr. VP of Strategic Partnerships
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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