Navy Makes Significant Investment in Munitions Capability, Awards Kongsberg Defence Multi-Year Over the Horizon – Weapons System Contract

Navy Makes Significant Investment in Munitions Capability, Awards Kongsberg Defence Multi-Year Over the Horizon - Weapons System Contract

By Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems Public Affairs

WASHINGTON - The Navy has awarded a $960.8 million firm-fixed-price multiyear contract to Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace (KDA) for the Over the Horizon - Weapons System (OTH-WS) Naval Strike Missile (NSM) requirement, Nov. 12.

The OTH NSM provides the U.S. and its allies with long range anti-surface offensive strike capability as well as increased coastline defense, deterrent, and interoperability.

"This multi-year procurement contract delivers on the Department of the Navy's commitment to build capability and capacity in the near-term by making our platforms more lethal," said Nickolas H. Guertin, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASN RD&A). "By making the right targeted investments, we ensure we deliver a balance of warfighter-ready capabilities at the right time, scale, and cost."

Through use of a multiyear contract the Navy will achieve program savings of $206 million. The award helps provide stability of the munitions industrial base while enabling delivery of munitions critical to sustaining the Navy's maritime dominance.

"This Over the Horizon - Weapons System contract will help ensure our Navy is ready to preserve the peace, respond in crisis, and win decisively in conflict if called," said Rear Adm. Tom Dickinson, Program Executive Officer, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS). "It supports ongoing efforts to put more munitions on more platforms in more places to prevail on a globalized battlefield."

This award comes on the heels of an announcement by KDA to build a new production facility in the U.S. Located near key Navy facilities. The site in James City County, Virginia will provide additional production capacity, sustainment and in-country tech refresh capabilities for the NSM.

As with all contracts, NSM awards are based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, price and technical capabilities.

As the Navy's premier combat systems organization, PEO IWS is evolving the Navy's existing combat systems into the Integrated Combat System to ensure ongoing combat superiority over any adversary. PEO IWS - the largest and most diverse PEO under ASN (RDA) - works as a team to ensure that our Sailors' needs are met by acquiring the best and most cost-effective integrated weapons systems for our ships, submarines, and aircraft, both today and in the future.

NAVSEA is the largest of the Navy's six system commands, responsible for the building, buying and maintaining ships, submarines and systems for the U.S. Navy.