Norway has tapped Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to upgrade its Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and build tactical radios for its military.
The first contract, worth 365 million Norwegian kroner ($33.6 million), would require the company to replace certain NASAMS radar parts.
Norwegian Brigadier General Jarle Nergård said that the upgrade would ensure that the air defense system maintains its ability to detect, identify, and neutralize airborne threats.
It would also enable the NASAMS radar to have a similar configuration and functionality to other countries’ detection systems.
“The planned upgrades continue the development of NASAMS and take advantage of advances developed in collaboration with other NASAMS user nations,” Kongsberg Vice President Kjetil Myhra added.
New Tactical Radios
The second contract to develop combat radios aims to provide more secure tactical communications to the Norwegian military.
Valued at 320 million Norwegian kroner ($29.7 million), the deal covers the delivery of a small quantity of the new radio equipment for use by the country’s land forces.
The radios must be compatible with existing systems in the Norwegian military inventory and be ready for integration of future technologies.
“To us, it has been important to find a future solution that can meet the sector’s need for a tactical radio capacity, with the reuse of technology that has previously been developed and delivered to the Armed Forces,” Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency Director Gro Jære said.
