Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS, a Norwegian-headquartered foreign-owned manufacturer, operates as a prime contractor supplying electro-mechanical components, remote weapon systems, precision-engineered hardware, and advanced defense technologies to U.S. Department of Defense agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside posture. The company competes predominantly on capability and performance rather than SBA designations, winning contracts valued at $12.26 billion across 1,552 prime awards (95% of total activity) spanning purchase orders, delivery orders, definitive contracts, and two substantial indefinite delivery vehicles.

Kongsberg's core federal capability centers on manufacturing specialized military components across electro-mechanical assemblies, cable assemblies, actuators, mounting brackets, fasteners, solenoids, supplemental armor, protective covers, and remote weapon systems. Representative prime work includes a $1,175 million FY25 Launcher Missile Module production contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command in November 2024; a $292.6 million Amphibious Combat Vehicle Phase 1 turret procurement for the Marine Corps awarded in November 2024 with performance at the company's Johnstown, Pennsylvania facility; a $240.9 million Joint Strike Missile Lot 2 and Option Lot 3 production contract awarded by the Air Force in December 2025; and a $47.4 million Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System contract for the Marine Corps awarded July 2025. Smaller-value work spans thousands of DLA and Army purchase orders for individual components—cable assemblies ($146.9 thousand single order), electro-mechanical actuators ($382.2 thousand), protective covers ($233.6 thousand), and ammunition-related hardware—that feed the military supply chain. A $7.1 million Air Force Joint Strike Missile engineering and test support contract awarded in January 2026 demonstrates ongoing sustainment and development work.

Customer concentration tracks heavily toward Army Materiel Command and DLA divisions. The top five customer agencies by count cover 81% of awards: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (449 awards, $17.9 million combined value), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (378 awards, $10.9 million), Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware (286 awards, $7 million), Department of the Army PEO Soldier (152 awards, $7.37 billion), and United States Marine Corps (71 awards, $523.9 million). By dollar value, PEO Soldier dominates at $7.37 billion across 152 awards, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.24 billion, 17 awards) and Army Materiel Command Detroit Arsenal ($1.02 billion, 16 awards). DLA's three divisions place high-volume, lower-value orders; PEO Soldier anchors the dollars through large-value weapon systems and spares vehicles.

Kongsberg's two primary indefinite delivery contracts drive ordering activity. The $1.498 billion single-award IDC with Army PEO Soldier, established October 31, 2022, and running through October 30, 2027, authorizes remote weapon systems, spare parts, field service technician support, and depot repair services for the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and DLA. This vehicle has generated 168 task orders valued at $765.8 million. A second IDC, valued at $9.98 million and awarded by Naval Air Warfare Center on September 5, 2025, through September 7, 2030, provides missile system development and testing support—research, analysis, systems engineering, modeling, simulation, and subject matter expertise for the Naval Strike Missile and Joint Strike Missile. Two delivery orders totaling $660.3 thousand have been placed against this vehicle for helicopter electrostatic discharge testing and Data Link Extended Range Support under the Ballistic Missile Defense System.

Activity has remained stable year over year—139 awards in 2022, declining slightly to 132 in 2023, recovering to 143 in 2024, holding at 139 in 2025, with 31 awards recorded through March 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, 126 awards (combined potential value $494.7 million) face ultimate completion and therefore recompete exposure. The recompete cliff is substantial in absolute dollars but distributed across a large portfolio, with no single vehicle representing a dominant concentration cliff risk.

Kongsberg maintains a subcontractor footprint against major primes. Named sub relationships include General Dynamics Land Systems (Stryker wholesale supply performance-based logistics on multiple awards as of November 2025 and prior months); Lockheed Martin Corporation (F-35 aircraft long-lead materials and components, including skin closeouts, vertical tail assemblies, and rudders); Raytheon Company (National Advanced Surface-to-Air-Missile System maintenance and sustainment, plus Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile support); BAE Systems Land and Armaments (Integrated Ground Force integration material and service delivery); and Rolls-Royce Marine North America (cost-plus labor for National Security Cutter propulsion and bow thruster components). Kongsberg also subs to KBR Wyle on Ground Systems and Mission Operations software maintenance, Bird-Johnson Propeller on Rolls-Royce mission-critical spares, and Textron Systems. These relationships reflect Kongsberg's role as a component and systems supplier embedded across major platform programs in aviation (F-35), land (Stryker, armored vehicles), maritime (NSC, NASAMS), and missile domains.

Corporate structure names three subsidiaries: Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services AS, Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace Holding, Inc., and Kongsberg Geospatial LTD, each foreign-owned. The parent company is structured as a for-profit manufacturer with headquarters in Kongsberg, Norway, and primary U.S. manufacturing and operational presence in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Award data confirms performance split between Norway headquarters and the Johnstown facility, with larger-value work and final assembly typically executing in Pennsylvania while some component manufacturing and development occur in Norway.

Kongsberg competes across small arms ordnance (322 awards, top NAICS category), hardware manufacturing (309 awards), and search/detection/navigation systems (128 awards), reflecting its breadth across precision components, weapons systems accessories, and associated electronic and electrical assemblies. Purchase order ceiling values range from under $1 thousand for individual fasteners to multi-hundred-million contracts for weapon systems and vehicle turrets. The vendor does not appear on GSA schedules, BWC vehicles, or governmentwide GWACs in the source; competition is award-specific, often through DLA simplified acquisition procedures and Army competitive solicitations, with no recurring reliance on mother vehicles beyond the two named IDCs.