Lockheed Martin Space, a subsidiary of US defense company Lockheed Martin, has received a $110 million contract modification for Trident II (D5) missile production and deployed systems support.
According to the US Department of Defense, work will be performed in Magna, Utah; Clearwater, Florida; Titusville, Florida; and other locations. Strategic Systems Programs, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
At the beginning of this year, the company received another deal for the development of the next generation of the Trident II strategic weapons system.
The integrated, modernized missile will be carried aboard Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines to ensure the strategic weapon system remains credible through 2084.
First deployed in 1990, the Trident II D5 missile is currently aboard Ohio-class and UK Vanguard-class submarines and will remain in use into the 2040s. The three-stage, solid-propellant, inertial-guided ballistic missile can travel a nominal range of 4,000 nautical miles and carries multiple independently targeted reentry bodies.
The Fleet Ballistic Missile team has produced six generations, each more capable than its predecessor: the Polaris A1, Polaris A2, Polaris A3, Poseidon C3, Trident I C4, and Trident II D5 missiles.