U.S. Navy officials needed a fire-control solution for Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. They turned to submarine systems experts at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Conn.
General Dynamics Electric Boat won a $31 million maintenance and modernization contract from the Navy Strategic Systems program to deliver fire-control systems to the U.S. Navy.
The contract also calls for Electric Boat engineers to provide support to the Trident missile programs, as well as to deliver strategic weapon systems technical engineering support for the Ohio-class and British Vanguard-class missile submarines.
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General Dynamics Electric Boat’s new contract further includes follow-on work from a 2008 contract that has now been extended to May 2012.
The Trident I and Trident II are nuclear missile programs are intended to enable the delivery of atomic warheads from a ballistic missile submarine.
The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile designed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corp. based in Littleton, Colo.
Trident missiles are armed with nuclear warheads and launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Trident missiles currently are carried by 14 active U.S. Navy Ohio-class submarines.
For additional information, visit General Dynamics Electric Boat online at www.gdeb.com.
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