{"id":21508,"date":"2021-03-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/03\/19\/navy-armaments-consortium-forge-partnership-to-solve-energetics-tech-challenges\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:57:22","slug":"navy-armaments-consortium-forge-partnership-to-solve-energetics-tech-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/2021\/03\/19\/navy-armaments-consortium-forge-partnership-to-solve-energetics-tech-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy, armaments consortium forge partnership to solve energetics tech challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 Amid fears about the strained industrial base for energetics, a key part of munitions and other conventional weapons, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2017\/01\/12\/nammo-partners-with-nswc-indian-head-to-develop-rocket-motors\/\" target=_blank>Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division<\/a> has forged an agreement with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/2020\/08\/27\/armaments-consortium-launches-new-path-to-field-high-tech-prototypes\/\" target=_blank>National Armaments Consortium<\/a> to accelerate tech breakthroughs over the next six to ten years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Energetics is a broad category of materials found in rocket and missile motors, ammunition, warheads and fuzing. Because of thin domestic availability of workers and certain chemicals used to make energetics, munition supplies are at risk, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2018\/05\/22\/findings-on-the-defense-industrial-bases-weaknesses-reach-the-white-house\/\" target=_blank>successive<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/05\/22\/the-us-is-running-out-of-bombs-and-it-may-soon-struggle-to-make-more\/\" target=_blank>defense industrial base studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the agreement, the Navy\u2019s hub for developing energetics-related technologies will use a flexible, nontraditional \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2020\/04\/01\/pentagon-turns-to-new-buying-tools-10-times-more-often\/\" target=_blank>other transaction authority<\/a>,\u201d to task consortium members in industry and academia with solving its toughest challenges. Advanced Technology International, which specializes in managing OTA-based collaborations, is also a party to the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreement to develop a new Naval Energetic Systems and Technologies Program covers 20 categories, like naval gun systems, warheads, propellants, propulsion systems, ordnance disposal and simulation in all the environments in which the Navy and Marine Corps operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond the theoretical, NAC members would do prototyping, engineering development, acquisition and low-rate production for NSWC Indian Head. The contract\u2019s first year is expected to yield 50 prototype projects totaling $50 million, with unspecified growth in the out-years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re trying to make power matches much quicker than a traditional [acquisition] process might get there,\u201d said NSWC Indian Head Deputy Technical Director Amy O\u2019Donnell. \u201cMore so, you\u2019re trying to make the right matches &#8230; And what\u2019s really important is we\u2019ve magnified our access to a community of performers out there in this category.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2020\/09\/22\/after-munition-worker-deaths-army-floats-16-billion-plan-to-modernize-production\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/181019-F-ZF730-0329.JPG.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">After munition worker deaths, Army floats $16 billion plan to modernize production<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S. Army officials told lawmakers Tuesday they are seeking a new 15-year, $16 billion strategy to modernize and automate the military\u2019s aging munitions plants following nearly a dozen worker deaths and injuries over recent years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NSWC Indian Head is a large, 130-year-old facility with a sweeping mission to research, develop, test, evaluate and produce energetics. At one point, 75% of all explosives deployed in U.S. weapons had been created there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NAC is made up of 900 companies, academic institutions, engineers and technologists. Its energetics subsegment includes some small niche entities and some as recognizable as BAE, Northrop Grumman and Pennsylvania State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can see all kinds of opportunities for prototypes, from ingredients to propellants, explosives \u2015 and including demonstrating them at system-level, so gun systems, missile systems, rocket systems and underwater systems,\u201d said NAC Executive Director Charlie Zisette. \u201cThis is really, I think, a groundbreaking move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supply chain management will be another theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt isn\u2019t just about, \u2018can I get rounds to go further.\u2019 It\u2019s also about having reliable sources of supply,\u201d Zisette said. \u201cIf you look at the precursors we use to make energetic materials, in gun propellants, pyrotechnics, explosives, a lot of that chemical manufacturing has gone overseas. Part of this initiative is about \u2018are we going to get back in that game and make sure our sources of supply and stable and robust.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy and other services have reportedly seen a boom in the use of OTAs for cybersecurity and information technology, but this may not be the last one for energetics. In the 2020 defense policy bill, Congress directed the Pentagon create a long-term energetics plan to maintain U.S. technological superiority; research and use new technologies, and to maintain a robust industrial base and workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zisette said the OTA\u2019s flexibility will allow collaboration both to define and answer new requirements. Those requirements will be presented and discussed at periodic Navy-hosted industry days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe key is innovation through collaboration,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be more effective and faster, with the best ideas right up front.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid fears about the strained industrial base for energetics, a key part of munitions and other conventional weapons, the Navy has awarded a six-year contract to accelerate tech breakthroughs over the next six to ten 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