Navy Awards Ursa Major $137M for Air, Naval Missile Rocket Motors
Berthoud, Colo. – October 05, 2026 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Ursa Major two contracts totaling $137 million to develop and qualify tactical solid rocket motors for the Compact Air-to-Air Missile (CAAM) and Naval Modular Missile (NMM) programs. The awards, funded through the Office of the Under Secretary of War, break down to $91 million for the CAAM motor and $46 million for the NMM Quad-Pack Medium-Range motor.
Ursa Major applies Lynx manufacturing to scale tactical motor output
The contracts leverage Ursa Major's Lynx manufacturing approach and additive manufacturing techniques to expand energetics production capacity. Jason Meredith, president of Solid Missile Systems at Ursa Major, said production capacity is the current bottleneck in missile programs and the company has built its approach around solving that constraint.