Berg Co. awarded $13.5 million Pentagon contract
Valley company to build efficient combat shelters
By Jim Camden
jimc@spokesman.com,(509)879-7461
A Spokane Valley company will receive a $13.5 million Pentagon contract to produce energy-efficient “combat outposts” to use in Afghanistan and other remote places U.S. troops are sent.
The Berg Co., which has been producing tents for some 130 years, is making lightweight shelters,kitchens and hygiene centers that cut energy use by up to 50 percent and water use by more than 70 percent.
The contract comes from the Defense Department’s Rapid Innovation Fund, which was set up in 2011 to buy and deploy more efficient shelters to combat forces in Afghanistan, Africa and Turkey.
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