WATERVLIET ARSENAL, N.Y. -- The Watervliet Arsenal has initiated work on a $50 million foreign military sales contract to manufacture 145 howitzer cannon systems that will support the Indian army. When this contract was announced in January 2017, it was the largest sales contract the Arsenal had signed in at least 30 years. Under the contract, the Arsenal will manufacture M776 155-mm barrels and associated parts that will become an integral part of the M777A2 lightweight howitzer that BAE Systems will provide to India as part of a foreign military sales contract that it (BAE) had received from the U.S. Department of Defense.