Norsk Titanium, headquartered in Hønefoss, Norway, has received a contract award of nearly $4.2 million from the US Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy under the Defense Industrial Base Expansion, Development, and Growth Enterprise (DIB-EDGE) initiative.

The DIB-EDGE programme is intended to support the development of next-generation manufacturing capabilities to strengthen US maritime and submarine industrial capacity. The funding will support development activities related to Norsk Titanium’s Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD) Additive Manufacturing technology over an eighteen-month contract period.