Northrop Grumman signed two multi-year framework agreements totaling over $3 billion to increase production, accelerate delivery of critical munitions technologies and reinforce the U.S.'s integrated air and missile defense. The company plans to collaborate with the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin.
Under the $2 billion framework agreement, Northrop Grumman will accelerate production of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE). The company will also supply essential components, including solid rocket motors and ignition safety devices.
The separate $1 billion framework agreement will enable Northrop Grumman to increase monthly deliveries of THAAD components over seven years.
Over the course of the seven-year framework agreement, Northrop Grumman will significantly increase PAC-3 MSE SRM production rates at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory (ABL) facility in Rocket Center, West Virginia. Since 2021, the company has doubled its production capacity for tactical solid rocket motors at ABL and plans to triple production capabilities by 2027. This investment supports the U.S. Army’s growth in annual PAC-3 MSE missile production from roughly 600 units today to thousands in the near term for U.S. forces and allied partners.
Since 2002, Northrop Grumman has supplied THAAD with critical expertise for interceptor shell cores, aft bulkheads and heat shield assemblies, leveraging proprietary bonding technology to survive the highest-temperature kinetic missions. The company’s San Diego plant has a 50-year history of high-volume, high-rate production of structural components across air, land and space domains.
Northrop Grumman’s propulsion systems and munitions components, ranging from fixed ammunition to warheads and fuzes, serve every branch of the U.S. military with ready-now scalability and consistent performance. Since 2019, Northrop Grumman has invested over $2 billion in munitions related technologies and facilities, including over $1 billion for solid rocket motor production.
The company also regularly invests in its Solid Motor Annual Rocket Technology Demonstrator program, which is an outcome-driven effort to insert industry-informed advancements into the company’s own solid rocket motor design, development production and testing.
