{"id":67257,"date":"2024-03-26T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/03\/26\/saab-to-expand-us-footprint-with-new-munitions-facility\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:32:19","slug":"saab-to-expand-us-footprint-with-new-munitions-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/2024\/03\/26\/saab-to-expand-us-footprint-with-new-munitions-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Saab to expand US footprint with new munitions facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2022\/09\/08\/saab-touts-successful-test-of-new-air-defense-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saab<\/a> is growing its footprint in the U.S. with a new facility that will manufacture ground combat weapons and missile systems, the head of the company\u2019s American branch told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new site is part of a global manufacturing push from the Swedish company to quadruple its global capacity to produce its ground combat weapons, Erik Smith said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe certainly see a very broad and very large market opportunity for the kind of products that we have today and the kinds of products that are being developed right now,\u201d Smith said. \u201cAs this facility ramps up, what you will see is a combination of products that Saab is very well known for and some new products that really haven\u2019t hit the market yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility will feature advanced manufacturing capability and an innovation center to enhance munitions production capacity stateside, according to Smith. He also said it will support the production of components for the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2015\/03\/10\/boeing-saab-unveil-ground-launched-sdb\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb, or GLSDB, system<\/a> as well as close combat weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saab is in the process of selecting a site, having issued a request for proposals. Six states are in the running, although Smith decline to identify candidates. He said the company plans to choose a site and break ground by the end of 2024, with plans to begin production by 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has rapidly expanded its locations across the U.S. in recent years. Last year, the company established two facilities focused on unmanned underwater vehicles in Rhode Island and Massachusetts as well as in California to support its work with U.S. Marine Corps training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, Saab opened an advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/afa-air-space\/2017\/09\/18\/saab-pledges-to-open-new-facility-in-us-for-t-x-but-questions-remain\/\" target=\"_blank\">aerostructure manufacturing facility in West Lafayette, Indiana,<\/a> where it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2018\/09\/27\/reuters-air-force-awards-9b-contract-to-boeing-for-next-training-jet\/\" target=\"_blank\">builds the rear fuselage for Boeing\u2019s T-7 trainer aircraft<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is based in Syracuse, New York, and runs its surveillance side of the business there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had pretty substantial growth in our land systems portfolio,\u201d Smith said, including winning a large contract in 2021 to provide a next-generation force-on-force training system to the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the Air Force awarded a contract to Saab and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2015\/03\/10\/boeing-saab-unveil-ground-launched-sdb\/\" target=\"_blank\">its partner Boeing for the GLSDB system<\/a>, which the company began to deliver to the service in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year ago, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/02\/03\/us-pledges-longer-range-small-diameter-bomb-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\"> U.S. pledged to send the GLSDB to Ukraine<\/a>. The bomb has a range of 93 miles and can be launched from mobile artillery systems like the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the new facility, the plan is to follow a similar model to what Saab did with its West Lafayette site. In that case, the first engineering and manufacturing development fuselages were built in Sweden, then, in parallel, Saab built the Indiana plant with high-end technology to produce the fuselages beginning with low-rate initial production, Smith explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to take advantage of some of the advanced technologies that are out there in manufacturing today and the evolution of the manufacturing space and capability since many, including our weapons and ammunition factories, were built many, many years ago,\u201d Smith said. \u201cYou can imagine there\u2019s some significant opportunities for efficiency improvement and \u2026 capability improvement overall, in terms of building these kinds of systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility will not just produce systems but will also have capability to test and integrate capability, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The facility in West Lafayette is about 100,000 square feet and is one of Saab\u2019s larger facilities in the country, but the footprint needed for land combat systems is expected to be \u201csignificant,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would envision this facility employing hundreds of people,\u201d he added. 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