This news is classified in: Defense Combat Vehicles / Artillery Infantry Weapons
Dec 14, 2017
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KONGSBERG), the global leader in Remote Weapon Station (RWS) development, manufacture, and support, has commenced an initiative to align development of its XM914 30 x 113MM Remote Weapon Station for the U.S. Army with its previously awarded CROWS Technology Refresh program (Contract Number: W15QKN-12-C-0103 P00156 / USD $36 Million).
As a member of the KONGSBERG CROWS family of systems, the XM914 system will share significant commonality with major CROWS components and sub-systems. It will leverage the CROWS technical data package licensed to the U.S Government (USG) and the expansive CROWS supply chain, - creating extensive workshare across the US industrial base. By aligning these two paths, the future XM914 CROWS system will have the benefit of a mature technology roadmap that has already been invested in by the USG.
“There is a benefit of such a decision for the Army. Not only will this provide a path for capability growth of the XM914, it will show tremendous cost savings by deriving improvements from a much larger pool of systems”, said Paal Bratlie, Executive Vice President of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. Bratlie was referring to the over 12,000 CROWS systems already in the US Army inventory, that will be upgraded under the Technology Refresh program.
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