Navy asks Lockheed Martin to build additional Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles

Strategic weapons experts at Lockheed Martin Corp. will build additional UGM-133A Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic nuclear missiles and support deployed D5 atomic weapons under terms of two orders announced Friday collectively worth $90.4 million. Officials of the U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) office in Washington are asking the Lockheed Martin Space Systems segment in Sunnyvale, Calif., to provide new procurement of Trident II (D5) missile production and D5 deployed systems support. One order is worth $41.3 million, and the second order is worth $49.1 million. Over the past eight months Lockheed Martin received contracts and orders collectively worth $139.3 million for Trident II D5 missiles and support. Over the same period the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., won a $58.6 million order for Trident D5 MK 6 guidance system production.