CAAA became one of two major tenants on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, eventually employing more than 700 employees and occupying 51,220 acres of land and 4.8 million square feet in buildings on the base.
CAAA’s manufacturing product lines grew to include countermeasure decoy flares, mortar and artillery illumination, signals and markers, loading assembly and packing of medium caliber munitions, Navy gun ammunition, Air Force and Navy bomb maintenance, explosive melt/pour and press load operations.
Exterior maintenance is performed on ordnance and ordnance-related items such as containers, metal pallets, and wire cages using grit blasting, high pressure water cutting, degreasing, and painting.
Logistics Shipping/Receiving: Crane receives, stores and ships a wide variety of conventional ammunition and munitions in support of worldwide operations.
Crane directly supports various units by receiving, storing and shipping their ammunition basic load as required.
Demilitarization Disposal: Crane utilizes a wide variety of methods including automated high pressure washout, breakdown, steam-out, permitted open burning and open detonation, contained detonation, water-jet and white phosphorus to phosphoric acid conversion.
CAAA will gain the detonator, relays and delays workload from Kansas Army Ammunition Plant.