Defense procurement

Pentagon Awards $54Mln for Production of Trident Nuclear Missile Guidance System

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has been awarded a $54 million contract to produce and test Trident D-5 nuclear missile guidance systems to be used on US and UK Navy strategic ballistic missile submarines, the Department of Defense said in a press release.

"Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. is being awarded a $53,530,167 million fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Trident (D5) MK 6 guidance system production," the release stated on Thursday. “The contract includes failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies, and electronic modules."