SSP Awards Lockheed $27.5M Trident Contract

Navy Strategic Systems Programs has awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems a $27.5 million sole-source, unpriced-letter contract for long lead material and the “labor, planning and scheduling necessary” to sustain the Fiscal Year 2015 Trident 2 production schedule, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Work is expected to complete by Sept. 30, 2020. The FY 2014 Navy weapons procurement account will fully fund the award. Funds will not expire at the end of FY 2015. The notice was the second Trident 2 contract-related announcement in two weeks, following a June 24 DoD notice that the department plans to award Charles Stark Draper Laboratories a sole-source special project alteration contract to provide the “effort and oversight” to procure Trident 2 Life Extension production materials.