Navantia and Kongsberg Naval Services sign Royal Norwegian Navy framework
Navantia and Kongsberg Naval Services signed a Framework Agreement in Bergen to support the royal norwegian navy F-310 Fridtjof Nansen frigates. The deal sets a long-term contractual framework for support, maintenance, modifications and modernization work on the ships.
The agreement gives Kongsberg Naval Services the role of main contractor. Navantia enters the framework as the designer, integrator and original equipment manufacturer, with responsibility for design and engineering support, platform knowledge, and modernization and technical evolution work.
Bergen agreement terms
The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency took part institutionally in the agreement. For Norway, the arrangement keeps the sustainment work tied to the same ship class Navantia designed and built between 2006 and 2011.
The framework is the third contract Navantia maintains in Norway related to the sustainment of the Nansen-class frigates. That gives the new deal a place inside an existing program rather than starting a new one from scratch.
Navantia and Kongsberg
Navantia and Kongsberg first signed a memorandum of understanding in March 2022 to collaborate on support and modernization of the F-310 frigates. In September 2023, they expanded that agreement to integrate Kongsberg's NSM into current and future ships designed by Navantia.
That earlier work also covered technical and industrial collaboration to adapt the NSM weapon system to the Spanish F-100 and F-110 frigates and to Norwegian and export naval platforms. The Spanish Navy confirmed the acquisition of the NSM to replace the Harpoon missiles.
F-310 sustainment work
The latest framework keeps the same industrial relationship moving into a broader sustainment phase for the F-310 frigates. Navantia's role now centers on the ship design it originated, while Kongsberg Naval Services remains the main contractor handling the framework around it.
For the Royal Norwegian Navy, the practical result is a standing arrangement for the frigates’ upkeep, modifications and modernization through a named industrial chain already linked to the class. The next step is the execution of that work under the new framework, with Navantia providing the design and engineering support it has committed to under the agreement.
