Navy Awards Lockheed Martin
$541 Million Contract for D5 Missile Production and Deployed System
Support
SUNNYVALE, CA, October 11th, 2000 -- The U.S. Navy yesterday awarded
Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations, Sunnyvale,
CA, a $541 million contract for the follow-on production of 12 Trident II
D5 fleet ballistic missiles, deployed system support and related technical
services. The contract is one of several scheduled to be awarded to
LMSS-MSO until 2005 for production of D5 missiles for retrofit into four
of the TRIDENT Ohio-class submarines currently homeported at the navy
strategic submarine base in Bangor, Wash.
"This contract continues for the 46th consecutive year, the remarkably
successful government-industry partnership between U. S. Navy Strategic
Systems Programs and Lockheed Martin", said Steve Parsons, Vice President,
Lockheed Martin Strategic Missile Programs. "We look forward to continuing
as a member of this unique government-industry team and to providing many
more years of support to our valued navy customer".
The 12 missiles being acquired are to support operational deployments
aboard the TRIDENT Ohio-class submarines USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730),
USS Alabama (SSBN-731), USS Alaska (SSBN-732), and USS Nevada (SSBN-734),
which are being converted to carry Trident II D5 missiles. These
submarines currently carry Trident I C4 missiles.
Production of these missiles will begin in 2001, with an expected
delivery to the Navy in 2003. Since serial production began in 1987, the
U.S. Navy has purchased 384 Trident II D5 submarine launched ballistic
missiles.
Recently, a D5 missile was successfully flown in a test conducted at
the Eastern Test Range off the Florida coast. This missile represented the
90th consecutive successful launch of the Trident II D5 missile and
continues the string of successful test launches that began in December
1989. No other large ballistic missile or space launch vehicle in the
world has demonstrated such a remarkable record of launch success.
The Navy selected Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space as its prime
contractor and missile manufacturer in 1956. Since then, the FBM team has
produced six successive generations of Fleet Ballistic Missiles-Polaris
(A1), Polaris (A2), Polaris (A3), Poseidon (C3), Trident I (C4) and the
Trident II (D5).
Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Missiles & Space Operations,
Sunnyvale, Calif., is an operating company within Lockheed Martin Space
Systems, headquartered in Denver, CO. It is a world leader in the design,
production and integration of systems for space-based telecommunications,
defensive and strategic missiles, remote sensing and space science. Its
diversified business base ranges from the U.S. government to global
commercial customer through its operating unit, Commercial Space Systems.
Jeffery Adams
(408) 742-6688
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