The U.S. Defense Dept. recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $41 million contract for production of the Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser. It is the third and final lot of low-rate production of the inertial measurement system-guided system. WCMD is a tailkit that is applied to the Tactical Munitions Dispenser. The submunitions dispensed by the WCMD are area munitions. The weapon was conceived during the 1991 Persian Gulf War when U.S. military planners realized the need to be able dispense area-denial weapons from high altitude, which required a system to offset the impact of wind on the weapon. The U.S. Air Force is planning to buy about 40,000 of the low-cost guidance systems. Of those, 30,000 will be used in conjunction with Combined Effects Munitions, 5,000 on Gator mines, and another 5,000 with BLU-108 Sensor Fused Weapons.