The U.S. Navy’s Tomahawk missile program has recently consolidated its management areas to provide the most efficient support to the Fleet. The consolidation follows a recommendation resulting from an assessment conducted by an independent consultant, in conjunction with the related Navy staffs.

The change involves the merger of PMA-282, the Tomahawk Weapon Control System program management office, with PMA-280, the Tomahawk All-Up-Round program management office. Additionally, the Cruise Test Directorate of PEO (W) has become part of PMA-280. The name of the new organization will be PMA-280, the Tomahawk Weapons System program office.

“I support your efforts to gain efficiencies and improve resource allocation,” said John Young, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, for Research, Development and Acquisition, in a memo approving the merger.

According to a newly defined program mission statement, the office will be ‘the Navy’s premier acquisition command and life-cycle manager for the Tomahawk Weapons System providing the warfighter with a safe, effective, reliable, and maintainable weapons system.’

The Tomahawk program is part of the Program Executive Office, Strike Weapons and Unmanned Aviation (PEO(W)) co-located at the NAVAIR complex, on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, in Maryland. Tomahawk is a registered trademark of the United States Navy.